EDUCATION

  • (2002) Ph.D. in Linguistics, McGill University
  • Dissertation © 2001: "On the Nature of Intra-Clausal Relations: A Study of Copular Sentences in Russian and Italian" (supervisor: Lisa Travis)
  • (1996) BA in English (cum laude), Hebrew University of Jerusalem

PUBLICATIONS

Please, refer to the "Publications" page for a complete listing.

TEACHING

Please, refer to the "Teaching" page for my teaching experience.

LANGUAGES

Russian (native), English (near-native), Hebrew (fluent), French (fluent), Italian (proficient)

SHORT BIO

2007-current: Department of Linguistics, Stanford University

  • Acting Assistant Professor in Linguistics

2005-2006: Department of Linguistics, Cornell University

  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

2004 - 2005: Department of Linguistics, Yale University

  • Lecturer in Linguistics (Spring 2005)
  • Visiting Researcher in Linguistics (Fall 2004)

2003 - 2004: Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

  • Lecturer in Linguistics

Summer 2003: Department of Linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington

  • Visiting Professor in Linguistics
  • Russian language instructor (SWSEEL)

2002 - 2003: Department of Linguistics, California State University Long Beach

  • Lecturer in Linguistics

2001 - 2002: Department of Linguistics, University of Tromso, Norway

  • Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher
  • Russian Syntax Reading Group

1997 - 2001: McGill University, Department of Linguistics

  • Ph.D. in Linguistics

1996 - 1997: Department of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Ph.D. student in English Linguistics
  • English language Instructor at the Boyer High School, Jerusalem

1992 - 1996: Department of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • BA in English Language and Linguistics and General Studies
  • Research Assistant in the Syntax and Semantics of Aspect Project

1989 - 1990: Department of French, The State Pedagogical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

  • Undergraduate student in Teaching French as a Foreign Language
  • Research Assistant in the Statistics of Language Project