Russian Studies Workshop

Aleksandra (Sasha) Kurlenkova is a 3rd-year PhD student at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication (New York University). She is studying organization of aided / assisted communication using Ethnography and Conversation Analysis. In her PhD dissertation she will look at how people with speech impairments and their conversational partners deploy communicators (a phone app or laptop program) and eye-trackers to build meaning together.