Negotiating Linguistic, Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World

Sarah Smyth is a Professor in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is co-author of RUS’: A Comprehensive Course in Russian (2002), Basic Russian, A Grammar and Workbook (first edition 1999, second edition 2013) and Intermediate Russian, A Grammar and Workbook (first edition 2001, second edition 2013). Conny Opitz is a teaching assistant in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Her current research focuses on applying dynamic systems and complexity theory to language development. She is co-editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism on ‘Dynamics of First Language Attrition across the Lifespan’ (2013). She has also co-edited an issue of Irish Slavonic Studies (2012).