Office: Calhoun 411 and Geography 106

Office Hours: M (CAL 411) 10-12; W (GRG 106) 1-3

Phone: 471-3607

tjgarza@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Ed.D., Harvard University, 1987

Research interests:
" Russian language teaching methodology/applied linguistics
" Contemporary Russian culture
" The Chechen wars and the media
" Post-Soviet youth culture

Courses taught:
> Russian Language: All Levels
> The Vampire in Slavic Cultures
> The Russian Fairy Tale
> Russian Youth Culture
> Chechnya 360"º

Recent Publications:
BOOKS: Breakthrough! American English for Speakers of Russian, Level 1, with Lapidus, Barchenkov, and Tolkacheva, Russian-American Collaborative Project on the English Language, D.E. Davidson and I.I. Khaleeva, series eds., Vysshaja shkola, Moscow, 1995, 350 pp. Fundamentals of Russian Verbal Conjugation for Students and Teachers: A Dictionary/Handbook of the One-Stem System with Commentaries, Kendall/Hunt Publishers, Inc. and ACTR Publications, 1994, 235 pp.
ARTICLES: "€Privilege, or Noblesse Oblige of the Nonnative Speaker of Russian? A Response to Kramsch's 'The Privilege of the Nonnative Speaker"'€ in The Sociolinguistics of Foreign-Language Classrooms, C. Blyth, ed. Boston: Heinle and Heinle, 2003 pp. 273-276. "€Russian Music and Dance,"€ in Russian Common Knowledge, Genevra Gerhart and Eloise Boyle, eds., Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2001. 62 pp. *"€Getting from Gorbachev to Grunge: Constructing Ethnographic Portraits to Introduce Contemporary Russian Culture,"€ The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures: Toward the 21st Century, Olga Kagan and Benjamin Rifkin, eds. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2000. pp. 61 - 80. "€Articulation, Assessment and Accountability,"€ ACTR Letter, vol. 26, no. 4, Fall 2000, pp. 1-3.

Awards/Honors:
" Elected to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Texas (2003) " Silver Spurs Centennial Teaching Award, University of Texas (2003) " National Award for Post Secondary Teaching, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (2001) " Harry Ransom Teaching Excellence Award, Liberal Arts, University of Texas (1999) " President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award, University of Texas (1995)