Spring 2014

"All of the culture lesson we have had in class have been brought to life. I have a much better understanding of the realities of Russia - the culture, the economy - it's hard to actually understand that from a classroom."    -Lindsay Francis, Carleton Russian Seminar in Moscow

 

FACULTY DIRECTOR

Diane Nemec Ignashev, Professor of Russian
Diane Nemec Ignashev teaches Russian language, as well as Russian culture and theories of culture, and her current research focuses on Russian film, Gulag fiction, and the life and work of poet Marina Tsvetaeva.  She has lived and worked in Russia for many years, and the 2014 Moscow program is her eighteenth academic tour to Russia since 1988.