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Kelly Knickmeier-Cummings, PHD (she/her)

Lecturer, Russian

  • World Languages & Cultures
  • 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 IDEAS in REEES Think Tank (Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies), a national, equity-minded undergraduate program based at Howard University, serving underserved and underrepresented students in the field.

Education & Expertise

Education

Slavic Languages and Literatures

PHD
University of Kansas
2017

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

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 Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Scholarship (I.D.E.A.S.) in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES). We are developing 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.

Related Articles

“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  

“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.