OLGA PETROVA
Office phone: (319) 887-3952
e-mail: olga.petrova@kirkwood.edu
CURRENT EDUCATION
Russian State Pedagogical University, the graduate student by correspondence, pursuing the degree of the Candidate of Philology: October 1992 – present.
Areas of specialty: English historical syntax, pragmatics, discourse analysis.
UNIVERSITY DEGREES
University of Iowa, Ph.D. in linguistics: August 1993- May 2001.
State of Iowa Teaching License: November 2001.
University of Northern Iowa, MA in TESOL: 1990-1992 (with honors).
Russian State Pedagogical University, MA in teaching English and German: 1978-1983 (with honors).
Credentials obtained: Diploma of Higher Education. Russian Teaching Certificate.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PROFICIENCY
English – native speaker fluency.
Russian - native language.
German – reading, writing, speaking.
French – reading.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Linguistic Society of America (1997-present).
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (1990-1993).
The Russian Union of Teachers (1982-1993).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Kirkwood Community College, Department of English, Assistant Professor: August, 2002 – present
Course design and teaching: Elements of Writing for International Students
Elements of Writing
Composition I
Composition II
College Writing
University of Iowa, Dep. of Linguistics, adjunct assistant professor: 2001-2003
Course design and teaching: Historical Linguistics
Introduction to Linguistics
Language and Formal Reasoning
Kirkwood Community College, adjunct instructor: Fall, 2001
Course design and teaching: Elements of Writing for International Students
Writing Consultant: Writing Center
University of Iowa, Dep. of Linguistics, teaching assistant: 1993-2001.
Discussion sections and grading: Articulatory and Acoustics Phonetics
Language and Formal Reasoning
Introduction to Linguistics
Course design and teaching: ESL Reading
ESL Grammar
ESL Writing
ESL Conversation
Iowa Intensive English Program: 1995 (summer session), 1997 (fall semester and summer session), 1998 (summer session), 1999 (summer session).
Course design and teaching: IIEP Reading (Levels 2, 4, 5)
IIEP Writing (Levels 1, 2, 3)
IIEP Grammar (Level 1)
Teaching Assistant Preparation Program (TAPE), University of Iowa: 1998 (summer session), 1999 (summer session), 2001 (summer session).
Course design and teaching: TAPE Presentations
Russian State Pedagogical University, Foreign Languages Department
(St. Petersburg, Russia), assistant professor of English: 1989-1990; 1992-1993.
Discussion sections and grading: History of English
Course design and teaching: Practical grammar (sophomores)
Practical phonetics (freshmen)
Analytical Reading (sophomores, seniors)
Conversation (seniors, graduate students)
Writing (sophomores, seniors)
Russian State Pedagogical University, College of Continuing (Adult) Education,
Intensive English Program: 1992-1993.
Course design and teaching: Conversation (adult professionals)
Specialized secondary school #397 (with intensive English program) (St. Petersburg, Russia), teacher of English: 1983-1989.
Course design and teaching: Practical English
English and American literature
Technical translation
Grade levels taught: 2nd through 10th
PUBLICATIONS
Petrova, Olga, Rosemary Plapp, Catherine Ringen and Szilárd Szentgyörgyi. 2005. “Voice and Aspiration: Evidence from Russian, Hungarian, German, Swedish, and Turkish,” The Linguistic Review.
Petrova, Olga. 2004. The Role of Perceptual Contrast in Verner’s Law: The Optimality Theoretic Perspective. In Studies in the History of the English Language II. Unfolding Conversations, Anne L. Curzan and Kimberly Emmons, eds. Mouton de Gruyter, 371-408.
Petrova, Olga and Szilard Szentgyörgyi. 2004. /v/ and voice assimilation in Hungarian and Russian. In Gregorz Dogil (ed.) Special Issue on Voice, Folia Linguistica, Vol. 28, 87-116.
Petrova, Olga. 2002. Sonorants and the labiodental continuant /v/ in Russian voice assimilation: an OT analysis. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Amherst Meeting 2002. Michigan Slavic Publications, 413-432.
Petrova, Olga. 2000. Grimm’s Law in Optimality Theory. Proceeding of the
Eleventh Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (Los Angeles, June 3-4, 1999). Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series: Washington, D.C.
Petrova, Olga. 1993. Pragmatic Characteristics of Stage Directions in the Evolution of
English Drama. Linguistics Publications of the Russian State Pedagogical University, November 1993.
TUTORING EXPERIENCE
At various times have tutored college students in ESL, in Russian, in essay writing, and in theoretical linguistics.
New Dimensions in Learning, University of Iowa, a tutor: 1994-1997.
Athletic Student Services, a tutor: 1995-1998.
EDITING EXPERIENCE (translations from Russian)
Aronov, Boris. 1999. Piezoceramic electromechanical transducers. The St. Petersburg
Institute of High-Energy Physics.
Bogdanov, Konstantin. 1998. The Physics of biology: Is Life Matter, and Does Life
Matter? The Moscow Research Institute of Biological Sciences.
INTERPRETING EXPERIENCE
The American-Russian Medical Doctors Seminar, Mercy Hospital (Cedar Rapids, IA): spring 1994.
The Agricultural Conference (Krasnodar, Russia): summer 1991.
Olympic Games (Moscow, Russia): summer 1980.
TRANSLATING EXPERIENCE (Russian into English)
Garbuzov, V.I 1992-1993. Psychosomatic diseases (The resume of a monograph in the
field of psychoneurology).
Technical documentation in the field of aeronavigation equipment, 1992-1993.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Sonorants and the labiodental continuant /v/ in Russian voice assimilation: an OT analysis”, paper presented at FASL 11 (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 11), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, May 3-5, 2002.
“The role of perceptual contrast in Verner’s Law”, paper presented at the 2nd
Biannual Conference of SHEL (Studies in the History of the English Language), Seattle, March 22-24, 2002.
“Verner’s Law in Optimality Theory,” paper presented at the 7th Annual Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, October 6, 2001.
“Why are there no aspirated stops in Hungarian and Russian?” (co-authors: Rosemary Plapp, Catherine Ringen and Szilard Szentgyörgyi), paper presented at the 4th Utrecht (the Netherlands) Biannual Phonology Workshop (June 22-23, 2000), at the Workshop on Voice in Stuttgart, Germany (June 2000), and at the Lecture series of the Budapest Phonology Circle, ELTE University of Science, Budapest (November, 2000).
“Manner-sensitive laryngeal faithfulness in Proto-Indo-European: an OT perspective,”
paper presented at the 45th Annual Conference of the International Linguistics Association (Washington D.C., April 6-9, 2000).
“Constraints on Voice: an OT typology” (coauthors: Rosemary Plapp, Catherine Ringen and Szilard Szentgyörgyi), paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Chicago, January 6-9, 2000).
“Sound shifts: dispersion and faithfulness in language change,” paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 9-14, 1999).
“Grimm’s Law in Optimality Theory,” paper presented at the Eleventh Annual UCLA Indo-Europen Conference (Los Angeles, June 3-4, 1999).
NON-REFEREED TALKS
Russian Voice Assimilation: an OT analysis (University of Iowa Linguistic Colloquium, spring 1997).
Grimm’s Law in OT (University of Iowa Linguistic Colloquium, fall 1998).
Why are there no aspirated stops in Hungarian and Russian? (co-authors: Rosemary Plapp, Catherine Ringen and Szilard Szentgyörgyi) (University of Iowa Linguistic Colloquium, fall 2000).
AWARDS AND HONORS
The Graduate Deans’ Distinguished Dissertation Award: Summer 2002
The award for the best paper by a graduate student or a recent Ph.D. at the Eleventh Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference: June 3-4, 1999.
The Seashore Dissertation-Year Fellowship for doctoral students in the Humanities (the University of Iowa): 1999-2000 academic year.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA): 1995-1996 academic year.
The American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) scholarship to get an MA degree in the US: 1990-1992.
First Prize in the (Soviet Union) All-Union competition of the students’ MA theses in Philology, Moscow (Russia): 1984.
Russian State Pedagogical University Scholarship to study German in East Germany (Potsdam, the German Democratic Republic): 1981.
Gold medal for Excellence in Secondary Education (high school graduation), St. Petersburg (Russia): 1978.
