- Dept. of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
458 Burdine Hall
2505 University Ave., Stop F3600
Austin, TX 78712 - 512-825-3297
- The University of Texas at Austin, Mexican American & Latina/o Studies, Faculty MemberThe University of Texas at Austin, Texas Language Center, Department Memberadd
- Russian culture, Comparative Literature, Russian Language, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Teaching of Foreign Languages, and 12 moreCurriculum and Instruction, Foreign language teaching and learning, Technology In Second Language Learning, Academic Access In Minority Populations, Teaching Culture In the EFL Classroom, Vampire Studies, Vampires in Film and Literature, Russian As A Foreign Language, Teaching Russian as a second language, Russian, Social Justice Issues In Adult and Higher Education, and Equity and Social Justice in Higher Educationedit
- Thomas Jesús Garza teaches, in addition to Russian language and culture at all levels, courses on Russian literature,... moreThomas Jesús Garza teaches, in addition to Russian language and culture at all levels, courses on Russian literature, popular culture, and contemporary culture, including the topics of youth issues, social justice and critical pedagogy in education, and Putin’s role in shaping contemporary Russia. He recently completed a book manuscript on filmic and cultural portraits of machismo in contemporary Russian and Latino / Mexican cultures, is co-editing with Rachel Stauffer a volume on decolonizing Russian studies in the U.S., and is beginning a new book project on Vladimir Vysotsky in the Americas.edit
2020 revised and updated K-16 Standards for learning Russian with Learning Scenarios and Sample Performance Indicators.
Research Interests: Teaching of Foreign Languages, Language Learning, Teaching Russian as a second language, Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language, World-Readiness Standards for Foreign Language Learning, and 3 moreNational Standards for Foreign Language Teaching, Teaching all levels of Russian, and Worlds-Readiness Standards
Research Interests: Open Access, Open Access Publishing, Teaching of Foreign Languages, Equity and Social Justice in Higher Education, Language Teaching, and 9 moreOpen Educational Resources (OER), Task-based language teaching, Equity in Education, Task-based Language, Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language, Coronavirus COVID-19, COVID-19 PANDEMIC, DEIA, and Digital teaching strategies · Distance learning model · Post COVID-19 era · Online teaching · K-12 education · Teachers
Research Interests: Equity and Social Justice in Higher Education, Russian Language, Russian culture, Teaching Russian as a second language, Language Syllabus Design and Materials Development, and 5 moreCourse Syllabus, Social Justice Issues In Adult and Higher Education, Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language, Decolonize Knowledge, and Decolonize the Syllabus
The strained pedagogies in the wake of the transition to virtual online delivery of instruction in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, while taxing some instructors’ and students’ patience, have also resulted in reimagined curricula and... more
The strained pedagogies in the wake of the transition to virtual online delivery of instruction in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, while taxing some instructors’ and students’ patience, have also resulted in reimagined curricula and new opportunities for student engagement and participation in our language and culture courses. This essay presents a rationale for the creation of ecologies of equity and inclusion within online delivery of course content on platforms such as Zoom, including suggestions for creating Breakout Room tasks and activities that encourage critical engagement and dialogue among learners and facilitate the creation of safe spaces for open and frank interactions. Critical pedagogy is applied to other Zoom functionalities, such as Polling and Chat, as well as in the use of class recordings for self-reflection and assessment of interaction between and among all participants, including instructors. Instructors are encouraged to attend to intersectionality within our increasingly diverse student populations, especially in the easily masked environments of virtual instruction, in order to attend more equitably to the diverse identities in our courses and to promote social justice.
Research Interests: Critical Pedagogy, Inclusion, Equality and Diversity, Teaching of Foreign Languages, Social Justice in Education, and 11 moreOnline and Distance Education, Equity and Social Justice in Higher Education, Inclusive Education, Russian Language, Foreign language teaching and learning, Teaching Online, Diversity and Inclusion, Online learning and second language pedagogy, Online Language Learning, COVID-19 PANDEMIC, and teaching and learning during COVID19
This essay presents an overview of the history of DH and its applications in the teaching of Russian language and cultural studies.
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Research Interests: Transformative Learning, Critical Pedagogy, Teaching of Foreign Languages, Intercultural Competence, Language Teaching, and 6 moreTeaching culture in foreign languages, Study Abroad Programs, Tranformative pedagogy, Teaching and Learning Languages in Virtual Worlds, Transformative Language Arts, and Language learning in study abroad
Contribution to a Symposium: Working Towards Equity in Slavic Language and Literature Programs
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Research Interests: Content-based, interdisciplinary approach to teaching foreign language, Study Abroad, Intensive language instruction, Foreign Language Instruction, Post enrollment language assessment, and 4 moreInstructional Media in Language Teaching, Foreign language intensive teaching, Language Flagship, and Soviet language teaching
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Research Interests: Folklore, Russian Music, Vampire Literature, Vampire Studies, Slavic vampire, and 7 moreEarly Russian and Soviet film, Russian Literature, Russian Theatre, Comparative Studies on Latin American and Russian Popular Culture / Literature, Post Soviet Culture, Women’s Literature and Film, Gender and Body Theory, The Rusalka In Literature and Film, and Multimedia As a Pedagogical Tool
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Research Interests: Slavic Languages, Russian Language, Russian culture, Teaching Russian as a second language, Popular Music in Foreign Language Teaching, and 7 moreForeign Language Teaching, Net-working, teaching russian language and culture through media, Web-based Language Teaching, Songs in the Second Language Classroom, Music and Song in Language Teaching, Technology In Second Language Learning, and Use of Songs In World Language Education
Research Interests: Russian Studies, Popular Culture, Propaganda, Russian Film, Russian Theatre, and 10 moreRussian culture, Slavic Studies, Russian and Soviet History, Food and Culture, Russian Foreign Policy, Caucasus and Central Asia, Russian orientalism in Central Asia, Russian cultural studies, Russian Pop Culture, contemporary Russian Studies, and Relationship between Russia and China
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Research Interests: Russian Studies, Russian Politics, Russian Film, Russian Studies (in Area Studies) and the Caucasus, Russian culture, and 10 moreRussian youth, Putin, Vladimir Putin, Hazing, Conscription, Russian Armed Forces, contemporary Russian Studies, Contemporary Russian Society, Contemporary Russian Film, Youth Politics In Russia, Russian and Soviet Youth culture, and RT (Russia Today TV network)
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Research Interests: Russian Music, Nineteenth-Century Russian Music, Russian culture, Classical Music, Soviet Music, and 7 moreRussian and Soviet Music, Russian and Soviet ballet, Soviet music and cultural history, Soviet cultural policy and cultural policy system, Russian cultural studies, Soviet Music 20th, Russian Popular Music, and Russian-Soviet Music
Research Interests: Youth Studies, Ethnography, Qualitative methodology, Youth Culture, Ethnography (Research Methodology), and 13 moreLinguistic ethnography, Interviewing, Russian culture, Russian youth, Teaching Russian as a second language, Slavic Studies, Russian language and literature, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Russian youth culture, Student-Centered Learning, contemporary Russian Studies, Contemporary Russian Society, and Russian and Soviet Youth culture
Research Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Mentoring, Teaching of Foreign Languages, Bilingualism, Foreign Language Anxiety, and 7 moreForeign language reading, Reading in a Second Language, Language and Literacy Development, Foreign Language Reading Anxiety, Academic Access In Minority Populations, Technology In Second Language Learning, and Reading Strategies and Cognition
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Research Interests: Language Acquisition, Curriculum Design, Academic curriculum, Video Learning in the Classroom, Teaching of Foreign Languages, and 10 moreCurriculum Development, Foreign language teaching and learning, Second Language Curriculum Development, Curriculum and Instruction, Materials development, Teaching culture in foreign languages, Course design, Efl and Esol Teaching, Teaching Culture In the EFL Classroom, and Developing Conversation and Vocabulary Skills
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Review of Intermediate-level Russian language and culture textbook
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Review of audio CDs of Vysotsky's works translated and performed in English
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This is part of a SEEB series entitled "Russian Studies in the Era of Trump" organized by Ani Kokobobo. Thomas Jesús Garza The recent Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, together with the ongoing Mueller investigation... more
This is part of a SEEB series entitled "Russian Studies in the Era of Trump" organized by Ani Kokobobo. Thomas Jesús Garza The recent Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, together with the ongoing Mueller investigation on Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, have certainly kept Russia in the media and public discourse throughout this summer. If the adage "There's no such thing as bad publicity" were true, we should all expect double or even triple enrollments in Russian courses this fall! A more realistic and pragmatic view, however, might suggest a different tact in preparing our programs and our learners for what appears to be a never-ending flow of attention-much of it negative-on Russia and US/Russia relations in the media and in our personal spaces. In these times of heightened negative rhetoric and a lowered level of civility in public discourse, especially in emotionally-charged topics such as immigration, individual rights, election outcomes, and yes, Russia itself, the language and culture classroom can provide an ideal environment to develop not only language skills, but to acquire first-language discourse and communication skills to navigate the fraught waters of today's negative post-factual conversations. September 26 2018
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Research Interests: Vampire Literature, Vampire Studies, Vampires, Vampires in Film and Literature, Vampires in folklore, and 3 moreSlavic vampire, Gothic, female Gothic, Gothic in literature, the Gothic as a subculture, the fantastic, horror, the vampire figure in literature and film, the femme fatale, feminist readings of vampire narratives, and Vampires from Dracula to Twilight
An introduction to the history of vampires in Eastern Europe by Prof. Thomas Garza of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Presented by Digital Speakers Bureau
Center for European Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
Presented by Digital Speakers Bureau
Center for European Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
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Back for more via Zoom, Tom Garza joins Matt and Tom once again to discuss Russian rock during the late USSR period to modern-day Russia, the power of nostalgia, and the role of music in COVID-19. And this time legendary music critic... more
Back for more via Zoom, Tom Garza joins Matt and Tom once again to discuss Russian rock during the late USSR period to modern-day Russia, the power of nostalgia, and the role of music in COVID-19. And this time legendary music critic Artemy Troitsky also joins from Estonia. To listen to the previous episode in this short series, follow this link: https://www.slavxradio.com/sovietskyrock As always, thank you for listening, and we hope you enjoy!!
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"Returning to the studio, Tom Garza joins us to discuss not vampires but Russian rock, from the years prior to the fall of the USSR to today itself. And this is not just an academic subject for him, it's his lived experience. Featuring... more
"Returning to the studio, Tom Garza joins us to discuss not vampires but Russian rock, from the years prior to the fall of the USSR to today itself. And this is not just an academic subject for him, it's his lived experience. Featuring snippets with legendary music critic Artemy Troitsky, who launched the first discotheque in Soviet Russia, this episode (not to overstate the theme) truly ROCKS." Click on the link below to hear the interview.
https://www.slavxradio.com/sovietskyrock
https://www.slavxradio.com/sovietskyrock
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Interview with The Slavic Connexion hosts, Matt Orr and Tom Rehnquist.
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Interview (in Russian) with cultural critic and radio personality Seva Novgorodtsev at the University of Texas at Austin, March 28, 2019.
https://youtu.be/yE9PpxjvCWs
https://youtu.be/yE9PpxjvCWs