Serhii Tereshchenko

Dr. Serhii Tereshchenko is a professor who specializes in comparative Slavic studies. He taught contemporary Ukrainian literature (Creative writing) at Rutgers University and the Russian and Ukrainian languages at Columbia, Montclair State University, University of Illinois, the University of North Georgia, the Middlebury college, and the University of Pittsburg.

Research

Dr. Serhii Tereshchenko is currently working on the book “Lyrical Games: Gender and Nation in Polish Trap” (Palgrave McMillan) and the anthology Cultural Paratroopers: Ukrainian Literary Organizations in the 1840s-1990 (Glagoslav).

Dr. Serhii Tereshchenko’s dissertation, defended at Columbia University in 2023, is about the genre of science fiction in promoting pluralism in the Soviet Union and so-called Socialist Bloc.

In teaching languages, his experience lies in adopting language games to learning. His style of teaching combines communicative method with an individualized reading methods, some examples of which are the RPG (role-play games) in the written form, a group game UNO for understanding parts of speech, the “pen pal friend” to individualize one’s motivation to read and write in the language.