Research Interests

• Pragmatics
• Gender Linguistics
• Slavic Linguistics
• Social Movements and Activism

Area of Expertise 

• Second language acquisition with an emphasis on writing
• Teacher training
• Curriculum development

Education

• M.A. in Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, The Ohio State University, 2024
• M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language, University of Central Florida, 2022
• B.S. in Secondary Education English Language Arts, University of Central Florida, 2019

Courses Taught

• RUS 1101 (Elementary Russian I)
• RUS 1102 (Elementary Russian II)
• RUS 1103 (Intermediate Russian I)
• RUS 2104 (Intermediate Russian II)
• RUS 3101 (Third-Year Russian I: Contemporary Russian in Cultural and Literary Contexts)
• RUS 3102 (Third-Year Russian II: Current Events through the Russian Media)
• SLAVIC 2365 (Sports, Socialists, and Society in Russia and Eastern Europe) (Grader)
• TSL 4240 (Issues in Applied Linguistics)
• TSL 3346 (English as an International Language)

Publications

• Verbitskaya, M., Kourova, A., & Pidberejna, I. (2025). Developing Cross-Cultural Competence and Media Literacy through Multimodal Instruction and Projects. Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 15.
• Verbitskaya, M., & Seigne, S. (2024). Book Review: Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian. Russian Language Journal, 74(1), 3.

Curriculum Projects:

• Co-author with Dima Arzyutov of Tales From Home: Two Siberians on Siberia
• Co-author with Mykyta Tyshchenko of A Journey Through Ukraine

Student Website Link

https://u.osu.edu/mverbitskaya/