Job description

Position: Research Professor (50%) and Language Instructor (50%)

I am an applied linguist developing innovative digital resources for language learning and research. I am a member of the research group CLEAR and a leader of Tromsø Constructicon Lab (ConLab) at the Department of Language and Culture at UiT. I teach Russian as a foreign language and work on building new research-based educational resources for Norwegian and Russian.

My major on-going projects include:

• EliNor (= Electronic Infrastructure Resources for Research and AI Applications on Norwegian)
• The Norwegian ConstructiCon, see the new interface at https://www.spraknett.no/
• The Russian Constructicon
• Construxercise! 2.0
• The Ukrainian Constructicon
• V temu (for advanced learners)
• Casual Russian
• STEP: Norway-USA Virtual Student Exchange Program (project member)

I co-organize:

• International conference “Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy” (CALP-5). March 4-6, 2026. UiT. Tromsø. 

 

Earlier I co-organized: 

• International seminar for instructors of Norwegian as a foreign language "Norsk grammatikk som et konstruktikon: språkbruk og språkundervisning (NoKo)" [Norwegian Grammar as a ConstructiCon: Language use and language teaching]. Kick-off for the project "The Norwegian ConstructiCon". August 25-27, 2025. Sommarøy. https://uit.no/noko
• an international PhD course “Constructicography: Advanced Topics in Construction Grammar” (2023);
• an international PhD course "Aspect across languages and linguistic schools" (2019);
• an academic conference "Aspect in the Arctic", UiT, Tromsø (2019);
• November Seminars on Russian Studies at UiT (Novemberseminaret i russisk);
• SCLC-2020: Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (2021);
• Summer Seminar of the Norwegian Cognitive Linguistics Association (NORKOGs sommerseminaret, 2021)

Primary areas of expertise:

• Multi-word constructions, Construction Grammar
• Constructicon resources for Norwegian, Russian, Ukrainian; constructicography
• Russian grammar, morphology, aspect, word-formation, semantics
• Creation of digital educational resources for learners of Russian
• Teaching Russian as a foreign language (all levels, grammar, conversation, translation, spoken Russian)
• Applied linguistics, corpus and experimental linguistics, statistical modeling, derivational morphology

 For more details on my research profile visit my personal home page.