Elena provides academic and administrative leadership for the Summer Language Institute at Penn State. She is also the Outreach coordinator for the School of Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, supporting partnerships with other BTAA (Big Ten Academic Alliance) institutions and helping SGLLC undergraduate students utilize resources and opportunities for experiential learning such as internships, volunteering, and mentorship.

Elena coordinates the Big Ten Academic Alliance CourseShare program, which allows students to take courses in less commonly taught languages across the BTAA network.

Her research interests focus on the intercultural aspects of language education and on international and global citizenship education.

Students interested in discussing any of the programs listed below are welcome to make an appointment by sending an email to galinova@psu.edu.

Programs:

Language Institute at Penn State

Think Global (Resources for Student Engagement and Experiential Learning)

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship program

Big Ten Academic Alliance CourseShare

Education:

• • Ph.D., Educational Theory and Policy, and Comparative and International Education, Pennsylvania State University

• • M.A., English, Sofia University, Bulgaria

• • M.A.,  Russian, Sofia University, Bulgaria