Slavic Languages and Literatures
PHD
University of Kansas
2017
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Faculty
Faculty
Kelly Knickmeier-Cummings, PHD (she/her)
Lecturer, Russian
Department/Office
- World Languages & Cultures
School/College
- College of Arts & Sciences
Biography
Kelly Knickmeier Cummings, PhD teaches Russian language, literature, and culture courses. Her interests are interdisciplinary in the areas of literature, philosophy, and language and media literacy pedagogy. Her work has appeared in Slavic Review and The Russian Language Journal. She is a co-director for the REEES Think Tank (Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies), a national, micro-credentialing undergraduate program based at Howard University, supporting underserved and underrepresented students in the field.
Education & Expertise
Education
Academics
Academics
Russian I
Russian II
Russian III
Russian IV
Russian Great Short Stories
Love and Hate in Russian Literature
Introduction to Humanities I
Introduction to Humanties II
Literature of the Nineteenth Century
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
Co-project Director, NEH, Exploring the Dimension of Russia and Otherness
Howard University was recently awarded the NEH grant of $150,000 under the [Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities]. The title of the project is Exploring the Dimension of Russia and Otherness. This is a two-year project to develop an open educational resource (OER) textbook that will examine Black intellectuals’ engagement with Russian/Soviet intellectuals and the cultures of the Soviet Union.
Co-Director, IDEAS in REEES Think Tank
Our mission is to advance a new generation of specialists in REEES and supporting innovative career paths, research agendas, and relationship-building capacity in the field. This national program is based at Howard University, and is building a sustainable nationwide research and support network among Minority-Serving Institutions, faculty mentors, students of color, and other students underrepresented and underserved in this field.
Publications and Presentations
Publications and Presentations
“Re-visioning Despair: The Medical Gaze in Sologub's The Petty Demon,”
in Russian Literature and Cognitive Science, edited by Tom Dolack (Lexington Books, 2024).
“A Framework for Enhancing Social Media Misinformation Detection with Topical-Tactics”
(with Benjamin Bagozzi, Rajni Goel, Brunilda Lugo de Fabritz, and Karthik Balasubamanian) Digital Threats: Research and Practice, 17 May 2024 https://doi.org/10.1145/36706
“Building Social Media Literacy in the Russian Language Classroom"
Russian Language Journal 73, no. 2 (Winter), 2023. https://doi.org/10.70163/0036-0252.1344
“Psychological Safety in the Russian Language Classroom"
(with B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz, Tia-Andrea Scott, Nsikakabasi Ekong, and Isabella Mason), Russian Language Journal 72, nos. 1-2 (2022): 151-169. https://doi.org/10.70163/0036-0252.1288
“Rereading Russia through the Contact Zone of HBCUs”
(with B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz), Slavic Review 80, no. 2 (Summer) 2021: 307-315.