Arina Volgina
Arina Volgina was born in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia). In 2000 she graduated with honors from the Philological faculty of Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University and got a special distinction from the academic board for her state exam in English and her graduation paper in Literature. The same year she started her postgraduate course in Foreign Literature and accepted a teaching position at the Linguistic University. She has been teaching classes of spoken English, Grammar and text analysis to unergraduate and graduate students and also delivering lectures on American Studies for high-school pupils. Her interest in music and theatre inspired her to finish also the Vocal Department of Nizhny Novgorod Musical College. In 2002 Arina Volgina was awarded the President of Russia Scholarship for studying abroad and thus spent one academic year at Oxford University (Great Britain) working on her research devoted to Anglophone works by Joseph Brodsky and problems of poetic translation from Russian into English. She received her PhD in 2005 from Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow). In 2006 she participated in the Fulbright program for foreign language teaching assistants and was chosen by Juniata College as the Russian visiting language instructor. Her personal interests embrace poetry, music, comparative theory of verse, the problems of literary translation and different aspects of cross-cultural communication.