Originally from Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Larisa Dmitrieva Micallef, Ph.D., double graduated in 2006 as a translator and interpreter from Krasnoyarsk State University and as a teacher from the State Pedagogical University. She continued her studies at the Lomonosov Moscow State University from where she obtained her doctorate with the dissertation Linguosemiotic theories of Rene de Saussure as a stage of structuralism formation. Larisa has lectured in linguistics and taught both English and Latin at the Lomonosov State University in Moscow. She has also taught English and French at the Academy of Foreign Languages, Moscow, and worked as a translator and teacher of English at the Consulate of Denmark. For the past seven years, Larisa has been a lecturer in linguistics and teacher of English, French, Latin and Turkish at the Leo Tolstoy Institute of Language and Culture.