Evgenia Sokolinskaia

Education
1999 - present Universität Hamburg, Germany*
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik*
Post-graduate student
1998 - 1999 Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany*
Seminar für Englische Philologie*
visiting student
1997 - 1999 Herzen State Pedagogical University, Russia*
Foreign Languages Department
Post-graduate student, chair of English Philology
1992 - 1997 Herzen State Pedagogical University, Russia*
Foreign Languages Department
Diploma (MA equivalent) with honours
Major in English philology and ESL teaching. Minors in German and Dutch
Research Work
1998 - present Work on PhD thesis "Role of Verbs in Motion Event Representation"
1999 "To the Question of Motion Event Representation"/In: Papers on English Philology. Herzen University Press, St. Petersburg
1995 - 1997 Master's thesis (diploma) "Speaker and Utterance: Dependence of Grammatical and Communicative-Pragmatic Aspects on Gender"
1996, 1997 Papers on Gender and Discourse read at Herzen University Students’ Annual Scientific Conference
Experience
1999-present Encyclopaedia Aethiopica*
editorial assistant
1997-present Central Translation Bureau ZNANIJE, St. Petersburg *
Translator, Interpreter (English, German, Dutch)
1997-1998 Herzen State Pedagogical University, Russia*
English Instructor
1996-1998 EF English First, St. Petersburg affiliation*
English Teacher
1997 Neptun Business Center, St. Petersburg*
City Guide (English)
1995, 1997 World Bank Seminars*
Escort Interpreter (English)
1996-1997 PT-Page Telecommunications*
Translator, Interpreter (English), Paging operator
1994, 1995 Gatchina Winter School for Physics
City Guide (English)
1994 "Sport. Man. Time" Newspaper
Translator (English)
Qualifications
Fluent English (TOEFL scored 640 (97%) in 1993, Diagnostics Test at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany (90% in 1999), German (Test German for High School Students (DSH) in 1999), Italian (CILS 3 in 2005).
Good working knowledge of Dutch, basic to reading skills in French, Polish, Amharic.
PC-user (Windows, MSOffice (Word, Excel, Access), WWW, HTML)
Creator and webmaster of the websites:
Encyclopaedia Aethiopica
15th ICES
100 Years German-Ethiopian Relations
Partito dei comunisti italiani, sezione Pisa
II International Littmann Conference
Meroitica
Typing experience (Latin, Cyrillic, Ethiopic alphabet)

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