David Prestel is coordinator of first-year Russian, first and second-year Polish and the Bulgarian tutoring program.  He teaches first through third-year Russian language and has recently developed a new course called "Russian for International Development" with support from the MSU Center for the Advanced Study of International Development.  On the graduate level he teaches Old Russian literature,  Eighteenth-Century Russian literature, Russian culture and Russian teaching methodology.  His main areas of research are Early Slavic Studies, the methodology of teaching Russian and most recently F.Dostoevsky in relation to Orthodoxy.  He has published articles  on these topics in Russian Review,  Russial Literature,  Slavic and East European Journal ,  Russian Language Journal, Dostoevsky Studies, Canadian American Slavic Studies, Russian History, Journal of  Language for  International Business, and other journals and collections.  He has been the editor of the Newsletter of the Early Slavic Studies Association  since 1992.