Evgeny Dengub

Evgeny Dengub is a Senior Lecturer of Russian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his Ph.D from Bryn Bryn Mawr College in Second Language Acquisition in Russian. He taught at Temple University, Amherst College, and Mount Holyoke College.

Evgeny is the co-author of two Russian language textbooks: Russian for Advanced Students (Dunwoody Press, 2013) and Panorama: Intermediate Russian Language and Culture (Georgetown UP, 2017). He has also co-authored an annotated Russian reader based on the short story by V. Tokareva About That, Which Did Not Happen (iLearnRussian Publishers, 2015).

Dr. Dengub has created and led a variety of workshops and trainings for teachers both in Russia and the United States and has supervised the work of teaching assistants at Amherst College and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Since 2015 he has been involved with a STARTALK Institute for teachers of Russian at Middlebury College Russian School as a director or the lead instructor. In Middlebury, he has worked as a lead instructor and a testing coordinator for a more than 10 years.

With Susanna Nazarova, he is the co-founder of the award-winning online resource center TeachRussian.org which now includes near 300 published activities, lesson plans, tests and other materials for Russian teachers across the globe.