Presenter Bios
Olga Lyanda-Geller, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University. She holds graduate degrees in philosophy and philology (PhD, Purdue; Candidate of Science, Russia; DEA, Sorbonne, France.) She has taught philosophy, Russian and French language, literature, and culture courses at universities in Russia, and currently teaches for the Russian and Jewish Studies Programs at Purdue University. Her research is interdisciplinary. Her principal interest is nature of language, which she has been exploring from both linguistic and philosophical points of view, investigating concepts ranging from the ‘lekton’ in the Stoic doctrine, to ‘inner form’ in the German tradition (Humboldt) and the Russian thought (Losev, Shpet.) Her work focuses on various aspects of the category of sense, different ways of expression of sense by linguistic means, and forming new concepts in language. Her research in education centers on engineering and scientific Russian.