Karen Evans-Romaine

Professor Karen Evans-Romaine is the Faculty Advisor of an exploratory project with American Councils focusing on capacity building within Kazakhstani public higher education institutions which is funded by the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan. In addition, she is Professor of Russian in the UW-Madison Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic. She has been at UW-Madison since 2009. An ACTFL-certified Russian oral proficiency tester, Evans-Romaine directed the Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian at Middlebury College from 2003–2009 and coordinated the first-year Russian program there from 2001–2003. She is co-author, together with first author Richard Robin and Galina Shatalina (George Washington University) of the two-volume elementary Russian language textbook Golosa. She is co-editor, together with Language Institute and Russian Flagship Associate Director Dianna Murphy, of a collection of articles on Flagship programs entitled Exploring the US Language Flagship Program: Professional Competence in a Second Language by Graduation, published in 2016. At Ohio University Evans-Romaine directed the Russian program and the biannual OU Spring Quarter in Moscow Program from 1996–2009. Evans-Romaine also studies intersections between Russian and German literature and between Russian literature and music, with a focus on the work of Boris Pasternak; she has published a book and several articles in these areas. She has taught Russian at all levels, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, Russian cultural history, and courses on literature and music in European Modernism; in 2006 – 2007 she taught advanced English and American literature and culture to Russian students at Smolny College in St. Petersburg on a Fulbright.