Savalieva Joins WLLC as Russian Instructor

The World Languages, Literatures and Cultures department is proud to announce that Alla Savelieva has joined the department in the Russian section.  

Savelieva is from East Siberia, Russia. She a passionate language educator, who has taught English and Russian as second languages. Included in her wide roster of former students are diplomats, researchers, college students, Au Pairs, and ballet dancers. This fall, Savelieva will be teaching two sections of Elementary Russian I (RUSS 10103), one section of Intermediate Russian I (RUSS 20103), and one section of Advanced Russian I (RUSS 30003). All courses are available for registration through Workday Student. 

Savelieva completed her graduate studies in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies at University of Colorado Boulder, and her research interests include project-based language learning, inclusive excellence and intercultural competency,  diversity and inclusion in language teaching,  post-Soviet politics, and Russophone art and culture. In 2019, Savelieva developed and contributed a Russian-language module to a project-based language learning repository hosted by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and the University of Hawaii. She recently co-authored an article for the volume Diversity and Decolonization in Teaching Russian Studies (Palgrave Macmillan).  

In her free time, Savelieva volunteers, travels, and hikes. She is happy to share her experiences of living in Siberia and the South Caucasus, studying and working with the Fulbright Program, and teaching abroad. Savelieva is always interested in why people learn Russian and is happy to suggest additional resources on language learning, cultures of the Russophone communities, and their music and art. 

For more information on the Russian program, please reach out to Alla Savelieva at allas@uark.edu.