Issues in the Teaching of East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures (Series)

Series Editor: Benjamin Rifkin (Fairleigh Dickinson University)

Editorial Board:

  • Molly Thomasy Blasing (University of Kentucky)
  • William Comer (Portland State University)
  • David S. Danaher (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  • Lenore A. Grenoble (University of Chicago)
  • Victoria Hasko (University of Georgia)
  • Liudmila Klimanova (University of Arizona)
  • Olga Klimova (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Ani Kokobobo (University of Louisiana)
  • Alla Nedashkivska (University of Alberta)
  • Sunnie Rucker-Chang (The Ohio State University)
  • Maria Shardakova (Indiana University)
  • Ekaterina Talalakina (Tampere University, Finland)
  • José Vergara (Bryn Mawr College)

Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce a new series on pedagogy, Issues in the Teaching of East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures. In this series, ASP will publish edited volumes and monographs on the teaching of the languages and cultures (including literature and film, among other aspects of culture) of the peoples of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, including multiple ethnic groups such as Abkhazians, Jews, Roma, and Uyghurs, who currently have no nation-state in the region.

Topics of relevance for this series include (but are not limited to): teaching learners from diverse backgrounds, teaching learners with differing abilities, decolonizing the curricula for language and cultural studies, reassessing and expanding the canon, teaching with social media, connecting the language and/or culture curriculum with other subjects from among the liberal arts and professional disciplines, engaging learners in community with native speakers from the target culture, fostering critical thinking through the study of language and/or culture, fostering collaboration skills through the study of language and/or culture, assessing and documenting learning outcomes in the study of language and/or culture, among others.

For further information, please contact the series editor, Dr. Benjamin Rifkin at b.rifkin[at]fdu[dot]edu.

Please find below links to calls for papers for the series’ first two volumes. If you are interested in proposing another volume in the series (to be published in 2026 or later), please contact the series editor, Dr. Benjamin Rifkin (email address directly above).

Calls for Papers

Cultural Texts and Significant Learning Experiences edited by David S. Danaher and Michał Okłot

Inclusive Strategies and Critical Pedagogies for East European and Eurasian Languages edited by Sunnie Rucker-Chang and Rachel Stauffer