Maryna Antaniuk-Prouteau

Visiting Scholar in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, March 2024 to September 2024
2008: Ph.D. in Philology, Belarusian State University (BSU), Minsk, Belarus
2005-2006: M.A. in Politics, Academy of Public Administration, Minsk, Belarus
1994-1999: Bachelor in Philology, Belarusian State University (BSU), Minsk, Belarus

Maryna Antaniuk-Prouteau, Ph.D. in Philology, specializes in Belarusian and Russian languages. Currently, as a visiting Fulbright scholar at Stanford University, she is implementing the project "Language Policy in Belarus: A Comparative Analysis with Ukraine and Lithuania," which aims to study linguistic dynamics in the post-Soviet states, comparing levels of Russification and nativization, and proposing policies for the revival and restoration of language balance in Belarus.

Main research interests:

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Legal linguistics
  • Comparative linguistics
  • Belarusian and Russian legal terminology
  • Terminology of International Law
  • Terminography
  • Belarusian and Russian phraseology

Professional positions held:

  • Fulbright visiting scholar, Stanford University, 15 March 2024 – present.
  • Visiting Scholar of the University of Bremen, Germany, 2021- 2023.
  • Associate Professor, Academy of Public Administration, Belarus, 2008-2020.
  • Senior Lecturer, Academy of Public Administration, 2005-2008.
  • Lecturer, Academy of Public Administration, 2000-2005.

Publications:

74 scientific works, including 12 multilingual terminological and phraseological dictionaries, among them, Latin legal terms and aphorisms in Belarusian, English, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian languages [Vilnius 2024], Latin-language aphorisms and their semantic equivalents in Russian, Belarusian and English [Minsk, 2022], Russian-Belarusian-Chinese phraseological dictionary [Minsk, 2015], The wisdom of the word through the centuries and peoples: a ten-language dictionary of phraseological equivalents [Minsk, 2015], etc.

 

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