Alina Parker

Alina Parker is a full-time lecturer teaching in the Writing Program and in the Russian, Eurasian, and Polish Studies Program (REPS) at UMass Amherst. She holds an MA in Communication from Washington State University (2003) and a PhD from UMass (2022). Her research interests include discourse analysis, performance studies, public memory, postsocialism, and Russian politics. Her interdisciplinary dissertation discusses politics of history in Russia after the Crimean annexation. She has taught courses in English, Communication, American Studies, and Russian Studies at UMass Amherst, Smith College, the University of Tampa, and the Russian State University for the Humanities. She is originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She currently teaches College Writing, our first-year writing course.