Profile
Dr. Aksana Pisetskaya received her Ph.D. in Russian language from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia). Her thesis was devoted to the linguistic aspects of the poetry of the Silver Age. She also holds a Master's degree in Belarusian and Russian languages from Belarusian State University. Aksana Pisetskaya has been teaching Russian language courses, both traditional and online, at the university level since 2003. Before becoming a lecturer at Hunter College, she taught courses in philology at the Minsk State Linguistic University (Belarus). Dr. Pisetskaya has published several research articles and presented at major professional conferences on various aspects of language instruction. Her current research interests focus on Russian as a foreign language, intercultural competence, and methodology in Russian language teaching. Aksana Pisetskaya teaches Russian language based on a communicative and interactive approach, her teaching methods integrate up-to-date technology in the classroom.