English language proficiency: С1

Supervisor’s research interests:

• Comparative linguistic and culture-oriented linguistic studies;
• Translation Studies and Culture-oriented Linguistic Research;
• History of Russian Translation;
• English Teaching in the XVIII-th century Russia;
• Russian-British and British-Russian cultural links;
• Russian Literature in English translations;
• Contemporary British Novel;
• Imageology.

Collaboration with foreign colleagues and colleagues from different Russian universities (Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences; participation in projects and events of Oxford-Russian Foundation).

Supervisor’s specific requirements to prospective PhD students:

• Fluent English (all skills):
• Adequate knowledge of methods of comparative linguistic analysis, of cultures under investigation;
• Communication skills.