Diversity and Decolonization in Teaching Russian Studies

Thomas Jesús Garza is University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and Director of Texas Language Center at University of Texas at Austin, USA.Rachel Stauffer is Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at Virginia Tech, USA.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Historical, Cultural, and Ideological Ties Between African Americans and Russia.- Chapter 3. Colonial and Decolonial Impulses: Histories and Stories from Russian Studies Educators in the United States.- Chapter 4. The Invisible Teacher: Reflecting on the Teacher Identities and Classroom Practices of non-Russian Instructors of Russian.- Chapter 5. Un-Teaching the Nineteenth-Century Survey of Russian Literature.- Chapter 6. Teaching Pushkin in a Multiracial World.- Chapter 7. Decolonizing Russian Studies: Reexamining the Nineteenth-Century Literary Survey Course.- Chapter 8. Queer Russians in the American College Classroom.- Chapter 9. On Decolonizing the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Classroom and Engaging with New Perspectives.- Chapter 10. Addressing LGBTQIA+ and Non-Binary Gender Identities in Russian L2 Classrooms: Approaches and Strategies.- Chapter 11. You Can’t Imagine: Ecologies of Empathy in the Post-Russia(n) Classroom.