Kostina Ekaterina A.

Education:

• 2002-2004: M.A. in Languages of Asia and Africa, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St.Petersburg State University. M.A. Dissertation: “Tenses and moods in Sanskrit (evidence from The 25 stories of Vetala)”.
• 1997-2002 B.A. in History of India, St.Petersburg State University. Diploma: “Relations between the Rajput dynasty of Mewar and the Mughal Empire during the reign of Akbar”.

Professional positions:

• Current: Senior Lecturer, Department of Indian Philology, St.Petersburg State University
• 2003-2011: Hindi and Sanskrit Lecturer, State University of Culture and Arts
• 2002-2007: Hindi Lecturer, Russian Christian Academy for Humanities

Languages:

• Russian (native),
• Hindi (fluent),
• Bengali (fluent),
• English (fluent),
• Sanskrit (reading)

Research interests:

• Indo-Aryan Languages;
• Indian Literatures;
• Linguistic Theory (esp. Morphology);
• Indian Art Cinema

Teaching:

Courses taught:

• Hindi
• Bengali
• Sanskrit
• New Bengali Literature in Contemporary Indian Cinema
• Hindi Grammar in Use
• Bengali Grammar in Use
• Theoretical Issues in Bengali Grammar and Historical Grammar of Bengali
• History of the Formation of Bangladesh (in Bengali)
• Comparative Grammar of Indo-Aryan Languages
• Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Business Translation

Publications:

• On Interpretation of the Verbal form in -(i)te in Bengali // International Journal of Arts and Commerce, 2014. Vol. 3. № 3. P. 61-72.