Associate Teaching Professor Contact Information vaz2@uw.edu (206) 543-0268 PDL A-213 Office Hours Summer 2025: By appointment only Fields of Interest Language Pedagogy Russian Biography Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992 Curriculum Vitae (45.84 KB) Research Selected Research Valentina Zaitseva. "Gender and National Identity through Russian Language." Chapter 1 in Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux, eds. Engendering the Nation: A Cross-Disciplinary Examination of Gender and National Identity in Russian Culture. Indian UP, 2006. Valentina Zaitseva. "Quoting Russian Poetry." Chapter 2 in Eloise M. Boyle and Genevra Gerhart, eds. The Russian Context: The Culture behind the Language. Slavica: Bloomington, Indiana, 2002. 85-202. Valentina Zaitseva. "Quoting Russian Prose." Chapter 3 in Eloise M. Boyle and Genevra Gerhart, eds. The Russian Context: The Culture behind the Language. Slavica: Bloomington, Indiana, 2002. 203-264. Courses Taught Autumn 2025RUSS 101 A: First-Year Russian RUSS 111 A: First-Year Medical Russian RUSS 201 A: Second-Year Russian Spring 2025RUSS 103 A: First-Year Russian RUSS 113 A: First-Year Medical Russian RUSS 203 A: Second-Year Russian Winter 2025RUSS 102 A: First-Year Russian RUSS 112 A: First-Year Medical Russian RUSS 202 A: Second-Year Russian RUSS 313 A: Business Russian Autumn 2024RUSS 101 A: First-Year Russian RUSS 111 A: First-Year Medical Russian RUSS 201 A: Second-Year Russian Spring 2024RUSS 103 A: First-Year Russian RUSS 113 A: First-Year Medical Russian RUSS 203 A: Second-Year Russian RUSS 314 A: Business Russian II Winter 2024RUSS 102 A: First-Year Russian RUSS 112 A: First-Year Medical Russian RUSS 202 A: Second-Year Russian RUSS 313 A: Business Russian Autumn 2023RUSS 101 A: First-Year Russian RUSS 111 A: First-Year Medical Russian RUSS 201 A: Second-Year Russian Spring 2023RUSS 103 A: First-Year Russian RUSS 112 A: First-Year Medical Russian RUSS 203 A: Second-Year Russian RUSS 314 A: Business Russian II Winter 2023RUSS 102 A: First-Year Russian RUSS 111 A: First-Year Medical Russian RUSS 202 A: Second-Year Russian RUSS 313 A: Business Russian Spring 2022RUSS 103 A: First-Year Russian RUSS 113 A: First-Year Medical Russian RUSS 203 A: Second-Year Russian RUSS 314 A: Business Russian II Winter 2022RUSS 102 A: First-Year Russian RUSS 112 A: First-Year Medical Russian RUSS 202 A: Second-Year Russian RUSS 313 A: Business Russian Resources & Related Links Faculty Webpage Affiliations Home Department Slavic Languages & Literatures Related News Related News "20 Days Without War" (May 5, 2017) UW to host the 9th Annual Slavic Linguistics Society Conference (September 26, 2013) Slavic hosts ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian (May 6, 2013) Sochi students interviewed (October 9, 2012)
