Zavyalova Olga Yu.

Education:

• 1985-1990: Saint Petersburg State University, Department of African Studies, Faculty of Asian and African Studies — specialty West African languages and cultures
• 1996: Saint Petersburg State University, Department of African Studies, Faculty of Asian and African Studies: Ph.D. in African and Asian Literatures, Thesis "The Manden Epic Stories (the experience of structural analysis)"
• 2000: Associate Professor (academic status)
• 2007: St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Psychology — specialty "Higher School Teacher"
• 2008: Russian Humanitarian University at St. Petersburg State University — specialty "Psychology"

Teaching experience:

Department of African Studies, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Saint Petersburg State University:

• 1991–1999 lecturer
• Since 2000 associate professor

 Scientific interests, teaching:

• Manding languages
• African oral tradition
• Anthropology
• Ethnopsychology of the Asian and African peoples.

Expeditions:

• Abkhazia (linguistic expedition), 1988.
• Yazgulyam (Pamir) — oral tradition, ethnolinguistic studies, 1989, 1990.
• Benin, Togo, 1997.
• Guinea (Nyagassola, Balaninkoro) — oral history, folklore, 1999.
• Guinea — anthropology, folklore, ethnopsychology, 2014.
• Rwanda — anthropology, ethnopsychology, 2015.

Foreign languages:

• Bamana,
• Maninka,
• Mandinka,
• English,
• French.