Alexandra Khrenova Curriculum Vitae

Education

Aug 2015 – Jun 2016 Southern Illinois University Carbondale

non-degree program
Foreign Languages Didactics, Political Science, Communication Studies
Carbondale, United States

Oct 2014 – Apr 2019 Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

Master of Arts, Conference Interpreting
Department of Translation, Languages and Culture Studies 06
Germersheim, Germany
Sep 2008 – Jul 2014 Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod
Specialist’s Degree (Diplom), Linguistics and Translation Studies
Department of Translation Studies, German Language Division
Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

Awards & Grants

Oct 2014 — Jul 2018 Scholarship: Heinrich-Böll Foundation

Aug 2014 Scholarship: DAAD scholarship for Intensive Course in Conference Interpreting

Apr 2013 Award: Winner of the 1st All-Russian Olympiad in German Language among
Students

Skills & Activities

Skills Translation, Interpreting Studies, US-Russian Relations, Cold War, soviet union,
US foregn policy, Philosophy Of Science, Intersectional Feminism,
Intersectionality, critical research, Critical Race Theory, Autoethnography, Anti-
Nuclear Movement, Russian Environmental Movement, Russian Politics

Languages English, German, Russian

Interests Social justice, philosophy of science, intersectional feminism, critical race theory,
queer theory, history from the bottom-up, ethnography, environmental
protection, anti-nuclear movement, grassroots involvement, democratic
participation, identity, the Self, women in Russia, Eastern-European women as
immigrants, autoethnography, history of LGBTQ in Russia, politics of the post-
socialist countries, Russian domestic and foreign policy, the Cold War, history
and politics of the USSR, US-Russian Relations, US foreign policy, World War II,
the Holocaust, dictatorships, history of slavery, sex-trafficking, United Nations,
higher education, methods of research, ethics in academia, bias, equality and
equity, big and small government, space research, astrophysics, quantum
mechanics, dark matter, supermassive black holes, exoplanets, consciousness
research, history of religion.