Sergei Pshenitsyn

Sergei Pshenitsyn

Hertzen Pedagogical University
Department of English Philology

naberezhnaya Moiki 48
St. Petersburg, 191186 Russia

Home tel: (812) 230-7783
Work tel: (812) 312-3684
Fax: (812) 311-0444
sergpsh@sp2153.spb.edu

During the 1996-1997 academic year, Sergei Pshenitsyn was a visiting research professor at The George Washington University, affiliated with the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. His stay in the USA was supported by the Junior Faculty Development Program, which is funded by the U.S.Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is administered by the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars.

Dr. Pshenitsyn is an associate professor at the Hertzen Pedagogical University, where he has been lecturing since 1990. Between 1981 and 1986 he taught the English language at the Institute of Technology. He is a member of the St. Petersburg English Language Teachers Association, where he coordinates the Special Translation Interest Group. He is a member of the St. Petersburg Macrobiotic Association.

He has travelled on various occasions to the UK, Germany, Italy and Belgium. Dr. Pshenitsyn attended Birmingham University in England between 1992-1994, where he sudied special applications of linguistics. He graduated from St. Petersburg University in 1980 with a diploma and became a science candidate in English philology, in 1988.

He has published over 15 articles in various philological journals; two of his latest are:

  • “The Syntactic and Communicative Division of the Sentence,” (St. Petersburg: Obrazovaniye, 1995).
  • “Language Variation, Language Policy and National Culture,” Studia Linguistica. (St. Petersburg: SLP, 1995).