Irina Forbes

Irina joined LSE in 2013, prior to that she taught Russian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and King’s College University.

Irina has postgraduate degrees in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language and in Russian and East European Literature and Culture. She is interested in the development and the linguistic change of Russian language in contemporary Russian mass media.

Expertise

Methodology of teaching Russian as a Foreign language, Liaison interpreting, Translation, Twentieth century Russian literature, Russian modernism 1890-1921, Post-War Soviet Cinema and Women’s Cinema in the USSR.