Duluth/Petrozavodsk Sister Cities Event – Unpacking Stereotypes: The Russian Perspective

Unpacking Stereotypes: The Russian Perspective

Fulbright Visiting Scholar Igor Krasnov teaches English and Intercultural Communication at Petrozavodsk State University in Russia and is a second-time Fulbright grantee. He completed research on Multicultural Education at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA and obtained his degree from Karelian State Pedagogical Academy.

Igor Krasnov has been teaching Intercultural Communication in Russia, Sweden, Finland and USA since 2000. In 2009 he received his first Fulbright grant to write a book on Multiculturalism in the USA, Western Europe and Russia and to teach «Russian Culture Through Film» at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN.

This semester Igor Krasnov is teaching Russian Film and Literature as well as Diversity and Social Context in the Classroom at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington.  This presentation is conducted through the Fulbright Scholar Program’s Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF).