Raquel Greene

 

greener@grinnell.edu
Campus Phone: 
4559
Unit (Dept., Office, Center, etc.): 
Russian
Position: 
Associate Professor of Russian
On-Campus Address: 
ARH 232A
Education / Degrees: 
B.A., University of Virginia
Ph.D., 1999, Ohio State University
Primary Academic Interest: 
Interplay of race, ethnicity and culture
Other Academic Interests: 
Language pedagogy
Russian literature and culture
Children's literature

Raquel joined the department in 1998 as a CSMP scholar and dissertation fellow. Raquel teaches all levels of the Russian language curriculum, and also teaches a course based on her research, "The Theme of the African in Russian Literature and Culture." Her research takes her to Moscow on a regular basis, most recently in December of 2008. She is especially well known as a scholar of the interplay of race, ethnicity and culture, and actively publishes in the fields of language pedagogy, Russian literature and culture, and children's literature. She has been active in improving diversity in student recruitment and in the teaching of Russian nationwide. Raquel was promoted to Associate Professor in Spring 2008.