Natalia Krylova is the Assistant Director for Academic Affairs at REEES and supports students in navigating the UCIS academic resources in the area of Russian, East-European and Eurasian studies. She was born and raised in the North-West of Russia, and earned her Ph.D. in Russian literature from the St.-Petersburg State University. Since then, she taught a variety of language, literature, and culture courses at a number of universities in the U.S., Scandinavia, and Russia. Her research was published in peer-reviewed journals and was focused on the gender aspects of Russian culture, Russian avant-garde art, and the legacies of the two prominent Russian poets - Mayakovsky and Vysotsky. In addition to her academic and scholarly work, she served in multi-faceted administrative roles at cultural institutions promoting foreign language acquisition and inter-cultural competencies, such as the American Councils for International Education (Washington, DC) and Concordia Language Villages (Bemidji, MN). Her educational background also includes expertise in teaching methodologies and technologies, translation, interpretation, and localization.