Svetlana Abramova (she/her)

Dr. Svetlana Abramova is an affiliate instructor of Russian in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures atthe University of Washington, where she teaches content-based “Advanced Russian through STEM” and leads an intensive summer program for heritage learners “Russian in the Sky and Outer Space.”  She holds an MA in linguistics and teaching Russian as a foreign language from Pushkin Institute and a PhD in Russian language pedagogy from Moscow State Pedagogical University. Her research and pedagogical interests include project-based and content-based language instruction, and heritage language pedagogy.