Radoslava Trnavac is an Associate Professor in Russian in the Department of Slavic Studies of the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. She completed her BA and MA in the Department of the Russian language and literature, Moscow State University “Lomonosov” with high distinction and another MA degree at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. She obtained her PhD from Leiden University (the Netherlands). Radoslava finished her postdoctoral studies in Canada, in the Department of Linguistics (Simon Fraser University). She worked on a project Discourse parsing for summarization and sentiment detection under supervision of Dr. Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University). She taught at the following universities: MGIMO (Russian Federation), Simon Fraser Univerisities (Canada), University of Novi Sad (Serbia), and University of Belgrade (Serbia). Her research areas are the following: detection of sentiment in language, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis (coherence in texts) and intercultural pragmatics based on the Natural Semantic Metalanguage. She works mainly on Russian, Serbian and English.

Currently, she teaches the following courses: G7 and G8 (Modern Russian Language, specialized course in translation of the terminology in politics and economics from Serbian into Russian, BA level), Intercultural pragmatics (MA level), Corpus linguistics within research in Russian studies (MA level), Coherence of texts in discourse analysis (PhD level).