Anna Kondratenko — curriculum vitae
Philologist, university lecturer, translator, and poet — the academic and creative path behind Smorodina.
Anna Kondratenko
Founder & lead instructor
Russian philologist (PhD). Lecturer of Russian as a foreign language with more than ten years of teaching experience across age groups — American, Chinese, and Georgian students. University, school, and remote teaching. Literary critic, translator of literary texts into Russian, culturologist, and poet-essayist. Founder of Smorodina in Georgia.
PhD · Yale University · Tbilisi State University
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Education#
Degrees and professional development.
PhD Degree in Philology — Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Dissertation written in 2019; Dissertation Board decision №9 of 7 October 2020. Diploma D № 000180 issued 29 January 2021.
Master of Arts in Philology — Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili TSU, Faculty of Humanities — decision №4 of 31 July 2014. Diploma M № 000683 issued 5 November 2014.
Bachelor’s degree — Russian philology
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University — Humanitarian faculty; minor in Journalism.
A.M. Gorky Literary Institute — incomplete higher education
Literary Creativity — poet-essayist track, Moscow.
Professional retraining — Methods of teaching RFL
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of the Russian Language and Culture — 1 April–30 November 2022. Diploma ПП МГУ № 014355 issued 27 January 2023.
Work experience#
From university lecturing to private practice, remote teaching, and Smorodina.
Founder & lead instructor — Smorodina
Founded and directs Smorodina, an immersive Russian-as-a-foreign-language school in Georgia: designs the curriculum, teaches the core RFL courses, and personally accompanies students on every cultural excursion — so language learning and the Georgia experience stay one continuous program.
Lecturer of Russian as a foreign language — Yale University
Summer School “Study Abroad in Georgia”: taught Advanced Russian I; organizing the educational process, lecturing for American students, creating and selecting methodological materials.
Coordinator — Yale Summer School “Study Abroad in Georgia”
Program management; accommodation and staffing; educational process for elementary, intermediate, and advanced groups; organization and support of cultural tours in Georgia.
Lecturer of Russian as a foreign language — MSU
Institute of the Russian Language and Culture, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University — lectures for a Chinese-student group (entry level).
Russian language tutor — Skysmart
Distance learning school: personal exam preparation in remote mode; lesson materials for the topics under study.
Remote private instructor — Russian as a foreign language
Online teaching from the COVID years to today: learners from age four to about sixty — children, university applicants, accountants, and business owners — with a method chosen for each person.
Private RFL practice — in-person studio, Tbilisi
Face-to-face lessons in a personal teaching office with school students, applicants, and adults of different ages — the in-person foundation of my method before the move online.
Lecturer of Russian Literature — Tbilisi State University
Department of Slavic Philology: History of Polish literature; History of Russian Literature; Literature of Russian Emigration.
Publications & dissertation#
Articles, collected volumes, and the PhD monograph — each with a link to the text.
The concept of “death” in the poetics of Russian and Polish symbolists (diachronic analysis)
PhD dissertation / monograph — Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Publishing House. Written in 2019; Dissertation Board decision 7 October 2020.
Open publication →The concept of “death” in the lyrics of symbolist poets
Journal “Bulletin of Science and Education”, No. 14 (117), p. 78, Moscow.
Open publication →Black and white colors in Slavic pre-Christian beliefs about the deity of death (to raise the question)
Journal “Science and Education Today”, No. 8 (43), p. 97, Moscow.
Open publication →The concept of “death” in the lyrics of symbolist poets
Homo Loquens magazine, No. 9, Tbilisi.
Open publication →The concept of “death” in Slavic pre-Christian beliefs and poetics of symbolists (to raise the question)
Collection “Polski Kaukaz / The Polish Caucasus”, Vol. II, Tbilisi.
Open publication →The relevance of secondary translation of world literature classics (on the example of the authorial translation of selected stories by Vazha-Pshavela)
Higher School of Translation, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University — conference materials, p. 356.
Open publication →Translation as a repetition of the creative process (on the example of the authorial translation of Vazha Pshavela’s story “The Withered Beech”)
Collection “Languages. Culture. Translation”, p. 130 — Higher School of Translation, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow.
Open publication →Scientific & creative activity#
Conferences, festivals, prizes, and literary recognition.
Poetry Evenings in Batumi — organizer and host
Monthly evenings: work with contemporary poets, popularization of poetry, and short talks on literature, literary process, and aspects of versification.
International scientific conference “New Horizons of Interdisciplinary Research”
Certificate of participation — Shota Rustaveli Batumi State University (BSU), Georgia; 23–24 June 2023; dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Professor David Gotsiridze.
Doctoral dissertation defense — Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili TSU, Tbilisi: defense of the dissertation “The concept of ‘Death’ in the lyrics of Russian and Polish symbolists”.
XV Festival of young Russian-speaking writers
Laureate in the nomination “Poetry” — Zvenigorod, Moscow Region, Russia; writers of Russia and neighboring countries; organized by the Sergei Filatov Foundation.
Young Writer’s Competition — Writers’ House of Georgia
Finalist in the nomination “Translation” — Tbilisi, Georgia.
Festival of young Russian-speaking writers of Armenia, Georgia and Russia
Laureate — Tsaghkadzor, Armenia.
Young Writer’s Competition — Writers’ House of Georgia
Diploma in the nomination “Translation” — Tbilisi, Georgia.
Student scientific conference “Actual problems of translation and translation relations”
First place — certificate; Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
Literary competition named after A. Jemal Adzhiashvili
First place in the nomination “The best poetic translation of the year” — Ivane Javakhishvili TSU, Tbilisi.
Otar Chkheidze Prize
Laureate and scholarship holder in the category “Best Prose Translation” — Tbilisi, Georgia.
International scientific and practical forum “Languages. Culture. Translation”
Participant — Thessaloniki, Greece; Higher School of Translation, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University.
V Open Festival of Poetry “Poetech”
Laureate in the nomination “Poem” — Voronezh State Technical University, Voronezh, Russia.
Competition of young Russian-speaking writers of Georgia — “Poetry”
Laureate within the international poetry festival “Dreams of Georgia” — Tbilisi, Georgia.
70th university scientific conference — Tbilisi State University
First place — Ivane Javakhishvili TSU.
Main poetic award “In memory of A.F. Chikov”
Laureate — Sergiev Posad, Moscow Region, Russia.
Annual poetry competition “Pasternak Summer — 2008”
Winner — Sergiev Posad, Moscow Region, Russia.
Poetic award “For the originality of poetic thinking”
Laureate — Sergiev Posad, Moscow Region, Russia.
Poetry prize “Youth Pegasus”
Laureate — Sergiev Posad, Moscow Region, Russia.
Literary association “Winter Sun”
Member — Sergiev Posad, Moscow Region, Russia.
Diplomas#
Official degree and professional-retraining documents — tap to enlarge.
Study with Anna#
Bring university-level rigor and a translator’s ear for language into your Russian season in Tbilisi.