Want to get familiar with the language of Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy? Are you trying to negotiate an oil-and-gas deal with Vladimir Putin? Would you like to impress the State Department with your knowledge of an officially-decreed “critical language”? Do you have plans to travel to the International Space Station? If you answered yes to any of these questions, get started by joining Michael White, a teacher of Russian at the high school and college levels for over 25 years, for a one-hour tutorial in the basics of this rich and fascinating language.

This class will pair well with our film screening on September 22.

Michael White grew up in Harrisburg, PA and obtained a B.A in Russian and Political Science and a M.A. in Russian Literature from Duke University and his A.B.D in Russian literature from the University of Virginia.

White has taught Russian and Global Studies at the Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies in Richmond, Virginia since 1998. He has additional teaching experience at Mills Godwin High School, St. Catherine’s School, St. Christopher’s School, Virginia Randolph Community High School, and the University of Richmond.

In the summers of 1990, 1993, and 1994, White studied in Russia on the Duke summer program. Since 1995, he has led ten summertime trips to Russia and spent over a year of his life in the former Soviet Union.

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