Teaching and Research in Belarusian Language and Linguistics: A North American Perspective

1. Teaching and Research in Belarusian Language and Linguistics: A North American Perspective Curt Woolhiser (Brandeis University, USA)

2. Organisations Promoting Belarusian Studies in North America • The Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences (BINiM), New York, founded in 1951 (Canadian branch founded in 1967)http://kamunikat.org/BINiM.html • The North American Association for Belarusian Studies (NAABS), founded in 2001, www.belarusianstudies.org • The Center for Belarusian Studies, Southwestern College, Kansas, USA, founded in 2008, http://belarusiancenter.org

3. Belarusian Language Courses at North American Universities • New College of Florida (Sarasota, Florida, USA): Beginning Belarusian (4 skills; tutorial, taught 2011-2012), Prof. Alina Wyman • University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada: Beginning-Intermediate Belarusian (4 skills, tutorial, taught 2002-2009), Prof. ZinaGimpelevich • Cornell University (Ithaca, New York, USA): Belarusian for reading (individual tutorial, taught in 2002 and 2008), Prof. Wayles Browne • Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA): Intermediate Belarusian (4 skills; individual tutorial, taught in 2005-2006), Dr. Curt Woolhiser • University of Massachusetts (Amherst, Massachusetts, USA): Belarusian for reading (individual tutorial, taught in 2004), Prof. Robert Rothstein

4. Prof. Alina Wyman and students in Beginning Belarusian, New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida (AY 2011-2012)

5. Belarusian Language Study AbroadProgrammes Sponsored by North American Universities

6. Center for Belarusian Studies (Southwestern College, Kansas)International Summer School of Belarusian Studies, Hajnówka, Poland (2009-2010)

7. Language Textbooks and Other Resources

8. Textbooks, Grammars and Phrasebooks for English Speakers • V. Pashkievich, Fundamental Byelorussian (Toronto, vol. 1 1974, vol. 2, 1978) • Peter J. Mayo, A Grammar of Byelorussia (Sheffield, UK, The Anglo-Byelorussian Society, 1976) • George Stankevich, Conversational Belarusian for English-Speaking Students (Prague 2001). pdf may be downloaded from the Belarus Miscellany website • UładzimirKatkoŭski, Belarusian Phrasebook and Dictionary (1999-2001). pdf may be downloaded from the Belarus Miscellany website • Chris Marchant, Fundamentals of Modern Belarusian (2004) pdf may be downloaded from the site: http://www.vitba.org

9. Other Textbooks and Resources (Intermediate-Advanced Level)

10. Textbooks for Russian-Speaking/Intermediate-Advanced Students • С. Аляксандраў і Г. Мыцык.Гаварыса мной па-беларуску/ Говори со мной по-белорусски: Живой разговор каждый день. — Москва: Вариант, 2008. • Т. Р. Рамза. Беларускаямова? З задавальненнем! (Для замежныхнавучэнцаў). Мінск «Вышэйшая школа», 2010.

11. “MovaNanova”http://www.movananova.by

12. “MovaNanova” classes in Minsk, Season 1, January-June 2014

13. Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USAhttp://slaviccenters.duke.edu/webliogra/belarusian

14. Belarusian Linguistics in North America Researchers: • Prof. Newel Anthony Brown (Brigham Young University, Utah) language policy, sociolinguistics • Prof. AndriyDanylenko (Pace University, New York) comparative Ukrainian and Belarusian historical linguistics, “Prostamova” • Prof. Michael Flier (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts) East Slavic historical linguistics, Belarusian historical dialectology • Prof. Raymond Miller (Bowdoin College, Maine) Belarusian dialectology • Dr. Curt Woolhiser (Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts)Belarusian sociolinguistics and dialectology, language policy and planning, Belarusian historical linguistics