People Type: Faculty and Staff

Biography Karen Evans-Romaine (PhD, Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Michigan) is Professor of Russian in the UW–Madison Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic. She has been at UW–Madison since 2009. An ACTFL-certified Russian oral proficiency tester, Evans-Romaine directed the Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian at Middlebury College from 2003–2009 and coordinated the first-year Russian program there …

Biography Dianna Murphy (PhD, Slavic Linguistics, Ohio State University) is co-director of the Russian Flagship Program, director of the Language Institute, and a core member of the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition. Murphy’s professional experience in Russian includes serving as resident director for study abroad programs to Russia, teaching Russian language and literature, developing …

Biography Iuliia Nogina is originally from Kazakhstan and grew up in Kurgan, Russia. She received a specialist diploma from the Department of French Linguistics and Education at Kurgan State University. Iuliia has one academic year as an exchange student and Russian language assistant with Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. She has been in Madison since 2015 and …

Biography Anna Tumarkin (PhD, Russian Literature, UW–Madison) is Russian Language Program Director and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of Slavic Languages at UW–Madison. Her research interests include language teaching methodology, instructional technology, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature and culture. Dr. Tumarkin teaches Russian at all levels and is an ACTFL-certified oral proficiency tester in …