Ekaterina (Katya) Soloveva, a multilingual Ph.D. Candidate at Georgetown University, excels as a translator, researcher, and educator in Washington, DC. Katya was born in Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, in a Russian-Korean family. She received her BA with Honors in Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2019. As an undergraduate student she spent some time studying in Germany, Austria, and the USA. While living in Moscow, Ekaterina taught German, Humanities, and English at an international education center and had an internship at the German newspaper in Moscow (Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung). She also worked as an assistant at cultural events organized by the Embassy of Switzerland in Russia. As a student she received the President’s Scholarship for Talented Youth and participated in the Year of Exchange in America for Russians (YEAR) program, organized by American Councils and U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Fluent in English, Russian, and German, Katya worked as a translator for Arte, the German-French TV network.
Currently, Katya’s research centers on post-Soviet migrant identity in Germany on social media. She actively researches social media discourse, utilizing methods like Critical/Positive Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics to investigate the evolving language of the digital era. Alongside her academic pursuits, she teaches German language and Humanities at Georgetown University, passionately amplifying unheard voices through her work and research.