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Olena Tsurska Svetina

Lecturer

Olena Tsurska Svetina
Olena Tsurska Svetina earned her Ph.D. in English with an emphasis in Linguistics, her M.A. in Linguistics from Arizona State University, and her B.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from the University of Northern Iowa. Before joining UCSD’s Analytical Writing Program, she taught various composition, ESL, and linguistics courses in Tempe, Arizona, and San Diego. Her current research interests include cooperative learning, transferability of writing skills, and teaching grammar in context.