Aselle Almuratova
Credentials: Slavic Languages and Literature
Position title: Graduate Student
Email: almuratova@wisc.edu
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Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Polish
Area(s) of Study: Russian orientalism, contemporary Russian literature, Central Asian Russophone literature.
About: I received my BA in World Languages and Literatures from Nazarbayev University in 2015. I hold an MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UW-Madison. I am currently a PhD Candidate in Russian Literature with a minor in Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS). In my dissertation, I explore the representation of the Asiatic space in contemporary Russian novel, and how this representation is connected to negotiation of Russian identity.
Education:
– Nazarbayev University, BA in World Languages and Literatures (2015)
Courses Taught:
– Slavic 253: An Interdisciplinary Survey of Russia Spring (2021)
– Slavic 101: First Semester Russian (Fall 2019)
– Slavic 203: Third Semester Russian (Fall 2016, Fall 2020)
– Slavic 204: Fourth Semester Russian (Spring 2017)
– Slavic 117/118: Intensive Summer Second Year Russian (Summer 2020)
– GNS 471: Introduction to Kazakhstan (Spring 2020 (in Russian))
Tutor, Russian Flagship Program:
– One-Credit Advanced Russian Across the Curriculum Tutorial (Fall 2018)
– Russian Flagship Tutor (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020)
Awards:
- J. Thomas Shaw Prize for best paper at AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference (2016)
- Graduate School Fellowship, University of Wisconsin- Madison (2015-2016)