Shannon Quinn
- (she/her, она/её)
- Associate Professor
- Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures
Biography
Ph.D., M.A., Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.Ed., Instructional Design, University of Massachusetts-Boston; B.A., Russian, Oberlin College Shannon Donnally Quinn (Spasova) is an Associate Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist. She received her Ph.D at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where her dissertation research was on Russian and Soviet science fiction. Her ongoing teaching and research interests include instructional technology in language teaching, blended learning, and curricular design, and she completed a second Master’s degree in instructional design in 2015. Shannon has also taught at Middlebury College’s School of Russian, Dalhousie University, for the University of Minnesota’s CARLA/STARTALK courses, Michigan State’s Online Language Teaching program, and has worked as part of the RAILS project (an award-winning project that targeted advanced listening skills in students of Russian) and for Learning Support Services (a group that assists instructors in the use of technology in teaching). She serves on the board of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association, as well as in the capacity of webinar coordinator of the International Association for Language Learning Technology and as the Editor-in-Chief of The FLTMAG. Shannon is co-author with Anna Tumarkin of the online Open Educational Resource Diverse Russian: A Multicultural Exploration, which won a 2025 MAFLT LCTL Innovation Award.
Works
Quinn, S. D., & Tumarkin, A. (2024). Diverse Russian: A Multicultural Exploration. https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/diverserussian/
Co-editor, with Karen Evans-Romaine, Symposium: Rethinking Pedagogical Practices at the Nexus of Pandemic and War: Technology, Access, Equity, Inclusion, and Representation in our Field, Slavic and East European Journal, 67(4).
Guest editor, with Liudmila Klimanova and Jason Merrill, Russian Language Journal special issue “COVID-19 and Online Teaching Pedagogy in the Times of a Global Crisis: Research, Practices, and Solutions, Volume 71, No. 2 (18 articles) – https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rlj/vol71/iss2/, 2021
Schmoll, S., Cornell, C., Wolff, L., Kronenberg, F., & Quinn, S. D. (2023). Take your students to the stars in the target language. The FLTMAG, November 2023. https://fltmag.com/planetarium-target-language/
Quinn, S. D. & Poole, F. (2023). DALL·E: An “intelligent” illustrator for your language classroom. The FLTMAG, March 2023. https://fltmag.com/dall%c2%b7e/
Quinn, S. D. (2021) How I am revising my curriculum based on e-learning instructional design principles. The FLTMAG, November 2021. https://fltmag.com/revising-curriculum-elearning-principles/
Spasova, S., & Welsh, K. (2020). Mixing it up with blended learning. The Art of Teaching Russian, 405-430.
Gacs, A., Goertler, S., & Spasova, S. (2020). Planned online language education versus crisis-prompted online language teaching: Lessons for the future. Foreign Language Annals, 53(2), 380-392. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12460.
College of Arts & Letters News
- Professor of Russian Teaches English in Uzbekistan and Gathers Information for Online ResourceCollege of Arts & Letters
August 7, 2025Shannon Donnally Quinn, Associate Professor of Russian in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University, traveled to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, this summer to teach in a collaborative program between the Tashkent Institute of […] Read Now →
- Professors Awarded for Outstanding Innovation in Less Commonly Taught Languages InstructionCollege of Arts & Letters
April 28, 2025The team of Shannon Donnally Quinn, Associate Professor of Russian in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University, and Anna Tumarkin, Russian Language Program Director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have received a 2025 Masters […] Read Now →
- Professor Works to Expand Horizons in Russian Language Learning with New Online ResourceCollege of Arts & Letters
October 11, 2024When the war in Ukraine altered the landscape of global politics, study abroad opportunities, and perceptions of Russian speakers, Shannon Donnally Quinn, Associate Professor of Russian in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University, saw […] Read Now →
- Faculty Promotions for 2022College of Arts & Letters
December 1, 2022The College of Arts & Letters is pleased to recognize the faculty members who recently were promoted to full professor, associate professor, or associate professor-fixed term.
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