Karpusheva's academic and teaching interests center on instructed second language acquisition, but they also span Slavic folklore, 19th-century Romantic prose, and Soviet and Post-Soviet literature and film. Her interests extend to representations of Soviet ideological heritage in late/post-Soviet Russophone literature, particularly in the works of Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich (the subject of her dissertation) and representations of trauma and memory in literature.
Courses Taught
- Intensive Basic Russian Course (Beginner–Advanced)
- Four-week Intensive Russian (first year, first semester)
- Contemporary Russia: People and Opinions (cultural survey through authentic sources)
- All levels of Russian (Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced)
- Russian for the Professions
- Introduction to Slavic Folklore
- Ten-day Intensive Russian, refresher course for the National Guard
- English Grammar
- Literary Analysis (English)
- English Speaking Practice
- Written & Oral Translation (English-Russian)
- All levels of English (Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced)
Dissertation
"Fighting a War: Svetlana Alexievich’s Prose between History and Literature." 2020.
- PhD, Slavic Languages and Literatures, the University of Kansas, 2020.
- MA, Slavic Languages and Literatures, the University of Kansas, 2014.
- Specialist and ABD, Germanic Philology (English and German), Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Barnaul State Pedagogical University, Russia, 2007, 2010.
Education & Training
Russian Aspect in Conversation (the first online textbook on the Russian verbal aspect), co-authored with Stephen M. Dickey, Ph.D. and Kamila Saifeeva, March 2023. https://opentext.ku.edu/russianaspect/
“Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl: Between an Oral History and a Death Lament.” Canadian Slavonic Papers LIX, no. 3–4 (2017): 259–80.
Review of Evgenii Margolit, Живые и мёртвое. Заметки к истории советского кино 1920-1960-х годов, Санкт-Петербург, «Сеанс», 2012. in Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, 2015, http://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/6/6
"Kognitivnye osnovy ponyatiia 'imidzh'" (the cognitive grounds of the notion of 'image'). Problemy mezhkul'turnoy kommunikatsii. Teoriya yazyka i metodologiia: Materialy k 4-oy mezhdunarodnoy konferentsii. no. 1 (2010): 78–89.
"Rol' rechevogo akta samoprezentatsii v postroenii imidzha govoriashchego v politicheskom diskurse" (the role of the self-presentation speech act in the speaker’s image-building in political discourse). Filologiia i chelovek. Vysshaya Attestatsionnaia komissiia, no. 4 (2010): 92–101.
"Rol' gendera v vybore strategiy i taktik samoprezentatsii v virtual'nom diskurse" (the role of gender in the choice of self-presentation strategies and tactics in web discourse). Kommunikativnaya lingvistika v sovremennom mire: Reguliruyushchaya priroda kommunikatsii, no.3 (2009): 108–17.
"Struktura imidzha lidera v amerikanskom politicheskom diskurse" (the structure of a leader’s image in American political discourse). Sovremennaia politicheskaia kommunikatsiia. Ural'skiy gosudarstvennyy universitet, no. 3 (2009): 65–73.
Representative Conference Presentations
“Introducing an Online Textbook for Russian Verbal Aspect: Russian Aspect in Conversation.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Virtual Convention, co-presented with Stephen M. Dickey, Ph.D. and Kamila Saifeeva, February 2023.
“Svetlana Alexievich’s Prose in the West: A Puzzle for a Translator.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Virtual Convention, November 2020.
“Empowering the Soviet Woman’s Voice: Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War and the Genre of Requiem.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Boston, MA, December 2018.
“Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl: Between an Oral History and a Death Lament.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, San Francisco, CA, February 2017.
“Two Types of Female Superfluity in Shepit'ko’s ‘Wings’ and Zharkhi’s ‘Anna Karenina’” Central Slavic Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 2014.
"Kognitivnye osnovy ponyatiia 'imidzh'" (the cognitive grounds of the notion of 'image'). 4th International Conference: "Problems of Intercultural Communication in the Language Theory and Methodology," Altai State Pedagogical Academy, Barnaul, Russia, February 2010.
"Rol' gendera v vybore strategiy i taktik samoprezentatsii v virtual'nom diskurse" (the role of gender in the choice of self-presentation strategies and tactics in web discourse). 2nd International Conference: "Communicative Linguistics in the Modern World: Regulative Nature of Communication," Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia, November 2009.
- Russian verbal aspect
- Russian verbs of motion
- Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet women’s writing
- Literary use of Slavic folklore genres
- Literary representation of trauma
- Genre issues in Svetlana Alexievich’s oeuvre