Banit Svetlana

Education:

• 1986-1991: Undergraduate Programme in Philology; Specialist Diploma; Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St.Petersburg State University. Degree Diploma: "The Malay Historical Poems"

Professional positions:

• 2008 – Current: Senior Lecturer, Department of Philology of South-East Asia countries, St.Petersburg State University
• 1993–1999: Teaching Assistant, Department of Chinese Philology, St.Petersburg State University
• 1991–1993: Graduate associate, Department of Chinese Philology, St.Petersburg State University

Languages:

• Russian (native),
• Indonesian (fluent),
• English (fluent),
• Malay (fluent)

Research interests:

• Modern Indonesian Literature;
• Classical Malay Literature

Teaching:

Courses taught:

• Indonesian language
• Malay language
• Malay Historical Poems
• Malay Manuscripts in Jawi
• Classical and Modern Literature of Indonesia and Malaysia 

Publications:

• Pengajaran Bahasa Indonesia di St.-Petersburg // Kongres Internasional Pengajaran Bahasa Indonesia untuk Penutur Asing. Universitas Indonesia, BIPA. Jakarta, 1995.
• Syair Perang Ruslan dan Japang. Naskhah kumpulan Institut Pengajian Ketimuran di St .Petersburg. P. 80-93 // Kebudayaan Nusantara. Kepelbagaian dalam kesatuan. Ed. by Boris Parnickel. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1997. 278 p.
• Three Sya’irs about Wars. Historical and Cultural Contacts of Peoples in Pacific Region // Maclay Scientific Conference, 2006.
• Modern Women’s Literature in Indonesia: Crisis or Breakthrough. Issues of Far Eastern Literatures //The IV International Conference, 2010.
• On Definition on Genre of Historical Shairs. Issues of Far Eastern Literatures //The 6th International Conference, 2014.
• Chick-lit in Indonesia (Women’s Literature in XX century). Asia and Africa in the Changing World // The XXVIII International Conference on Historiography and Social Studies of Asia and Africa, 2015.
• The Chinese Minority in Classical Malay Literature. Issues of Far Eastern Literatures //The 7th International Conference, 2016.
• Evolution of Women’s Characters in Modern Women’s Prose. Asia and Africa: their Heritage and Modernity // The XXIX International Conference on Historiography and Social Studies of Asia and Africa, 2017.