CV
Curriculum Vitae
EVGUENIA DAVENPORT
WORK ADDRESS
Department of English
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Avenue
Tampa, Florida, 33620
Cooper Hall 285
E-mail: ecausley@usf.edu
EDUCATION
2022 Doctorate, English Literature, University of South Florida
2013 MA in Linguistics: English as a Second Language, USF, Tampa
2013 M.A. in Spanish, USF, Tampa
Thesis: “El intelectual y el poder: El discurso contestatario en Jacobo
Timerman y Aleksandr Solzhenitsin”
2008 Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, University of South Florida, Tampa
2007 Associate of Arts, St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, FL
1999 Bachelor of Education with a specialization in “Humanities” (equivalent of the U.S. degree of Bachelor of Science in Teaching English as a Second Language and German), Urals State Pedagogical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
EXPERIENCE
2022-present Graduate Teaching Associate, English, University of South Florida
2014-2022 Instructor of Russian, Adjunct Faculty, University of South Florida
2014-2019 Instructor of Spanish, Adjunct Faculty, University of South Florida
2014-2019 Instructor of Spanish, Adjunct Faculty, University of Tampa
2016-2018 Director, Summer Study Abroad Program at USF, USF in Costa Rica
2014-2015 Assistant Director, Study Abroad program at USF, Imagining Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Summer 2014 and 2015
2009-2013 Graduate Teaching Associate, Spanish and Russian, Department of World Languages, University of South Florida, Tampa
MEMBERSHIPS AND HONORS
2008 Graduated Cum Laude, USF
2007 Graduated Magna Cum Laude, St. Petersburg College
2004-2007 President’s Honor List, St. Petersburg College
2003 Certificate of Excellenceby First Advantage Corporation, St. Petersburg
COURSES TAUGHT
SPN 1120 - Beginning Spanish I
SPN 1121 - Beginning Spanish II
SPA 101 - Elementary Spanish I
SPA 2203 – Second Year Spanish
SPA 2207 – Spanish Composition and Conversation I
SPN 2270 - Journaling
RUS 1120 - Beginning Russian I
RUS 1121 - Beginning Russian II
GR3 - English Grammar Level 3
RUT 3110 - 19th Century Russian Literature in English
EUS 3022 – Russia
SPN 4470 - Latin American Culture through Film
ENC 1101 – Composition I
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIENCES
2021 Participated in Seminar/Workshop on Latin American Literature. Latin American Female Writers of XX and XXI century: Las mujeres vienen marchando. Led by Dr. Pablo Brescia. USF. Selected readings and discussion of Maria Luisa Bombal, Silvina Ocampo, Elena Garro, and Maria Elena Llana.
2021 Participated in Seminar/Workshop on Latin American Literature. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: La mejor de todas/The best of all. Led by Dr. Pablo Brescia. USF.
2020 Participated in Seminar/Workshop on Latin American Literature. Gabriel García Márquez: La magia de los instintos/The magic of the instincts. Led by Dr. Pablo Brescia. USF.
2020 Participated in Seminar/Workshop on Latin American Literature. Curso de Lectura “Sábados literarios:” Los 4 fantásticos, fundadores del cuento moderno. Led by Dr. Pablo Brescia. USF. Selected readings and discussion of four classical representatives of modern short story genre: Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, and Franz Kafka.
2020 Participated in Seminar/Workshop on Latin American Literature. Julio Cortázar, El Perseguidor. Led by Dr. Pablo Brescia. USF.
2019 Participated in Mind You Words/Pido la Palabra II: A Reading of Hispanic and Latino Fiction and Poetry. Presentation/Reading of Garcilaso de la Vega’s Sonet V and Sonet VIII. Location: USF Library, Tampa, Grace Allen Room.
2018 Participated in Mind You Words/Pido la Palabra: A Reading of Hispanic and Latino Fiction and Poetry. Presentation/Reading of Lydia Cabrera’s “Eya.”
2018 Participated in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Centennial talk organized by USF Institute on Russia led by Dr. Golfo Alexopoulos with participation of Dr. Victor Peppard. Contributed as one of the discussion panelists. Location: Harbor Hall Community Room - USF St. Petersburg.
2014 Conference Presentation. Dynamics of Discourse, Power and Social Change in Modern Higher Education (SCFLLF: 21st Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Film, USF, Tampa)
2014 Conference Presentation. Thesis. Intellectual and Power: Anti-establishment Discourse in Jacobo Timerman and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Forms of Conflict and Unrest, GAPS: Graduate Association of Political Scientists, USF, Tampa)
2013 Thesis Presentation. Intellectual and Power: Anti-establishment Discourse
in Jacobo Timerman and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Research One Week /
WLE Colloquium, April 2013, USF. Thesis director: Dr. Pablo Brescia.
2013 Teaching Internship. Grammar Level 3, Academic English Program, INTO-USF.
2012 Field research for thesis. Study Abroad program at USF, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Summer 2012.
2008 Participated in Research One Week / Educational Research for the Advancement of Community, November 2008. College of Education, USF. Topic: ESOL Preservice Teacher's Dialogue while Implementing Instructional Technologies. Faculty member: Dr. Deoksoon Kim.
2008 Participated as a conversation leader in Conversation Leaders Program, English Language Institute (presently INTO-USF), University of South Florida.
1999 Thesis Defense. Stylistic significance of modifications in phraseological units in literary discourse. Faculty of Foreign Languages, Urals State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia.
1998 Certified in business management skills by Educational Consulting Center “Business Woman.”
1995-1997 Certified in technical and commercial translation Russian and English.
1994-1995 Diploma of English Studies received at Student Educational Services in the United Kingdom.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Spanish / Hispanic literatures and cultures. Second language acquisition theory and practice. Interdisciplinary approaches. Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Russian: native speaker
English: near-native command
Spanish: near-native command
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
2016-current Serving on Board of Directors as Secretary for Russian Heritage organization, a non-profit organization based in Tampa Bay and active since 1995. Our mission is to promote cultural awareness, diversity, and outreach in the community to forge and expand cultural and educational ties between American and Russian-speaking local community.