Delia Valente

Delia Valente received her Kandidat (PhD) degree in foreign languages from Moscow Linguistic University in 1987, completing her dissertation in general linguistics and communicative grammar. She has taught English as a foreign language in Moscow and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, English as a Second Language in the US, and Russian to American diplomats at the US Embassy in Uzbekistan.  Delia was a Fulbright scholar at GWU during the 1994-1995 academic year.  She is also a conference-level English-Russian/Russian-English interpreter and has interpreted for a number of senior US officials, including Secretary of State Madeline Albright.