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Alex Burak
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Ph.D Moscow State University
Slavic Studies
Russian Studies
alburak@ufl.edu
352-392-2101 ext. 219

Courses

Courses developed and taught by Dr. A. Burak on a regular basis at the University of Florida:

Ready-made:

• RUS 1130 Honors Intensive Beginning Russian-1
• RUS 1131 Honors Intensive Beginning Russian-2
• RUS 1130 Introduction to Russian Language and Culture-1
• RUS 1131 Introduction to Russian Language and Culture-2

Developed by Dr. A. Burak from scratch:

• RUS 3100 Reading the Russian Press (3 credits)
• RUS 3101 Reading Russian Literature (3 credits)
• RUS 3240 Oral Practice in Russian (3 credits)
• RUS 4411 Advanced Oral Practice (3 credits)
• RUT 4300 Advanced Grammar and Composition (3 credits)
• RUS 4502 The Language and Culture of the Russian Business World (3 credits)
• RUS 4780 Corrective Phonetics and Intonation (3 credits)
• RUT 3500 Russian Cultural Heritage (A general education and
  international diversity course taught in English) (3 credits)
• RUS 4503 Theory and Practice of Russian-English Translation 1 (3
  credits)
• RUS 4504 Theory and Practice of Russian-English Translation 2 (3
  credits)

Work Experience

• 08.2000-present
  Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, Visiting Lecturer of Russian Studies, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Florida, USA
• 1998-2002
  Chair of the Department of Lexicography and Theory of Translation, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Moscow State University
• 1992-2002
  Personal interpreter/ translator for the Rector (President) of Moscow State University
• 1986- 2000
  Official Russian language examiner at the British Embassy in Moscow
• 1977-1997
  Assistant Professor, Senior Instructor, Instructor, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Moscow State University
• 1984-1985
  Visiting lecturer of Russian language and literature, Department of Russian Language, Birmingham University, UK
• 1981
  Translator for WHO, Switzerland

Membership of professional organizations:

• 2000 - present Member of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
• 1995 - present Member of the Union of Translators of Russia (Card no. 559)

Publications

Books and Dictionaries

• A.L. Burak. Translating Culture. Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication. Stage 2: Sentence and paragraph semantics. – Moscow: R.Valent Publishing House, 2006. - 196 pages. ISBN 5-93439-186-0.
• New Russian-English Dictionary / L.P.Popova, L.S.Robaten', I.A.Krupskaya et al. General editor: A.L.Burak. - Moscow: ACT-Astrel Publishing House, 2004. - 544 pages. ISBN 5-17-026896-3; 5-271-10001-4.
• A.L. Burak, S.V. Tyulenev, Ye.N. Vikhrova. Rossiya. A Cultural Guide to Russia. Russko-Angliisky Kul’turologichesky Slovar’. Moskva. AST. Astrel’. 2002. – 128 pages. ISBN 5-17-014173-4 (Limited Liability Company "Izdatel’stvo AST"); ISBN 5-271-03858-0 (Limited Liability Company "Izdatel’stvo Astrel’").
• A.L. Burak. Translating Culture. Translation and Cross-Cultural
  Communication. Stage 1: Word semantics. - Moscow: R.Valent
  Publishing House, 2002. - 152 pages. ISBN 5-93439-073-2. Read a review of the book from jostrans.org
• A.L.Burak. A Practical Introduction to Written Translation from Russian into English. Stage 1: Word Level. INTRADA Publishers. Moscow, 2002. - 176 pages.
• A.L.Burak, M.Berdy, V.S.Yelistratov. An Addendum to Contemporary Russian-English Dictionaries: Word-Senses and Phrases Absent from Russian-English Dictionaries. Moscow: Astrel’ Publishing House, 2001. 96 pages.
• An English Reader for Sociology Students. Part II. A Grammar Workbook. Edited by A.L.Burak and N.D.Starkova. Moscow University press, 1999.
• An English Reader for Sociology Students with a Glossary of Sociological Terms. Part I. Compiled and adapted by A.L.Burak and N.D.Starkova. Glossary compiled by Ye.P. Patsibina. 2nd edition (corrected and expanded). Moscow University Press,1999.
• An English Reader for Sociology Students. Part I. Compiled and adapted by A.L.Burak and N.D.Starkova. 1995.
• An English reader for applied sociology students at Moscow State University. Izdatel’stvo MGU (Moscow University Press), 1987.
• Russian for English-speaking science students. (Textbook). Izdatel’stvo MGU (Moscow University Press), 1987.
• Language lab English speech drills. Part II. Izdatel’stvo MGU (Moscow University Press), 1985.
• Language lab English speech drills. Part I. Izdatel’stvo MGU (Moscow University Press), 1985.

Articles

• Assessing Translation Quality at Word Level. Mosty. The Journal of Translators. No. 4 (16), 2007, pp. 15-27.
• How to Make a Russian-English Translator’s Dictionary. (Article). Vestnik MGU. Series 19: Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication. No.1, pp. 25-32, Izdatel’stvo MGU (Moscow University Press), 2002.
• Some topical issues of translation studies. (Article). Vestnik MGU. Series 19: Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication. No. 4, pp. 49-59, Izdatel’stvo MGU (Moscow University Press), 1999.
• Notable exceptions to the sequence of tenses rule in English. (Article). Journal: Foreign Languages at Pre-College Level, No. 2, 1995.
• Special cases of using the English articles before proper nouns. (Article). Functional Stylistics and Linguodidactics. Izdatel’stvo MGU (Moscow University Press), 1988.
• A.Giddens’ critique of historical materialism. (article) Sociological Research, No. 5, 1992

Translations

• A. Giddens. Sociology. (Translation). Sociological Research, No. 2, 1994.
• A.Giddens. Gender, patriarchy and the rise of capitalism. (Translation). Sociological Research, No. 7, 1992

Chapters

• The chapter "Russian Speakers" in: Learner English: A teacher’s guide to interference and other problems. (Revised and expanded) Edited by Michael Swan and Bernard Smith. Second edition. Cambridge University Press. 2001, pp. 145-161.
• The chapter "Russian Speakers" in: Learner English. A teacher’s guide to interference and other problems. Edited by Michael Swan and Bernard Smith. Cambridge University Press. 1987.

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