Ludmila Isurin

Ludmila Isurin is a Professor and Undergraduate Studies Chair in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University. She holds affiliations with the OSU Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Second Language Studies, the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and the Undergraduate International Studies Program.

Dr. Isurin earned her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics from Louisiana State University (1999). Her interdisciplinary research bridges psycho- and sociolinguistics, memory studies, and social sciences, focusing on bilingualism, first language attrition, collective memory construction, and immigration dynamics.

• Key research themes include:
  • Media’s role in shaping collective memory (e.g., Russian-American relations)
  • Language maintenance among diasporic communities
  • Cognitive mechanisms of language forgetting
  • Identity negotiation in immigrant populations

Her recent work explores how media narratives influence national memory constructs in Russia and the U.S., funded by the James S. McDonnel Foundation. She directs the Second Language Acquisition track in her department and teaches courses on bilingualism, diaspora studies, and cognitive linguistics.

Award-winning publications include *Collective Remembering: Memory in the World and in the Mind* (2017), a nominee for the APA Global Psychology Book Award, and *Reenacting the Enemy: Collective Memory Construction in Russian and U.S. Media* (2022). Her research integrates content analysis with empirical participant data, emphasizing interdisciplinary methodologies.

• Notable recognitions:
  • Fellow of the Psychonomic Society
  • Editorial Advisory Board member for *Bilingual Processing and Acquisition*

Current projects include studying 'Memory of Defeat in the Shaping of Collective Future Thought,' examining how historical narratives influence societal futures. She actively mentors students in Slavic linguistics and second language acquisition research.