Kira Gor (Ph. D. St. Petersburg State University, Ph. D. Bryn Mawr College) <kirao@wam.umd.edu> is Associate Professor of Russian and Second Language Acquisition at the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland. She teaches in the Russian Program at the Department of Asian and East European Languages and Cultures and in the interdepartmental M.A. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Application. Her publications include Interlanguage Phonology and Second Language Morphology (1998) and more than 30 scholarly articles. Dr. Gor co-authored a 4-volume video-based Russian language course Russian: Stage One: Live from Moscow! (1996). Her current research focuses on the processing of Russian verbal morphology by native speakers and second language learners of Russian.