Dr Shamil Khairov

  • Lecturer (Political & International Studies)
  • Lecturer (School of Modern Languages & Cultures)

email: Shamil.Khairov@glasgow.ac.uk

R 314 Level 3, Hetherington Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305

Biography

I started my academic career at Glasgow in 1998 holding by that time a doctorate in comparative Slavonic linguistics from St. Petersburg State University and having considerable experience in teaching Russian to foreign students in Russia and Slovakia. From 2002 to 2005 I held a lectureship in Polish and Russian at Trinity Colege, Dublin, returning to Glasgow in 2005 - this time to the post of a lecturer in Russian.  Besides Russian, my 'working' languages (the subjects of my research or the ones I regularly read in and communicate with my colleagues and friends) are Slovak, Czech, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, and Slovene. Recently, I listen to a lot in Ukrainian and Belarusian.

My course on Russian C20 Visual Culture is probably the most successful here, and it is also highly popular abroad: I have delivered it, partly or in full, in Germany, Finland, Czechia, Belgium, and Slovakia.

I am also involved in black-and-white art photography and had several solo exhibitions in Scotland and abroad.

Research interests

It is impossible to design language courses without solid reference books aimed at students' needs. in 2009, in collaboration with Dr. John Dunn, we created and published Modern Russian Grammar. A Practical Guide (Routledge, 469 pp). This reference book was unique because it was built on fresh language material and consisted of two equal parts – The Structures and The Functions.

Teaching Russian to Social Scientists for many years, I realized the urgent need for a thematic dictionary covering not only such topics as the human body and everyday life but also politics, civil society, rights and freedoms, state structures, international relations, terrorism, the armed forces, warfare, demographics, religion, economics, trade and alike. We worked with J. Dunn on this project for four years, and it resulted in an innovative type of dictionary entitled Russian for All Occasions. Russian-English Dictionary of Collocations and Expressions (Routledge, 2019, 712 pp).  It contains over 10 000 entries organized in 33 chapters on all aspects of physical and social life. 

This grammar book and the dictionary are widely used by teachers and students of Russian all over the world. The latter, particularly its chapters on the armed forces, war, weapons, and terrorism, turned out to be particularly useful today, in times of dramatic events in Eastern Europe. 

Another topic on which I regularly publish focuses on linguistic imagology, it deals with language stereotypes and the interaction between language, culture and politics in the cultural history of Slavs.

Research groups

Publications

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2024

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2024) Who Needs a Thematic Dictionary “for All Occasions” Today? A Compiler’s Notes. Third International Language-for-All Conference (LFAC '24), Adana, Turkey, 17-18 Oct 2024.

2023

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2023) The Tatars Of Mordovia: Culture & Daily Life. [Website]

2021

Dunn, John and Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2021) Russian for all occasions: a polythematic Russian-English dictionary of collocations and expressions. The authors reflect on the idea behind the dictionary, the problems encountered and how they were solved. Slavonica, 26(2), pp. 85-104. (doi: 10.1080/13617427.2021.1998953)

2020

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2020) Dialogicheskiie idiomy v sovremennych slav’anskich iazykach: variacii formy. In: Arkhangel’skaia, Alla (ed.) Novoe v russkoi I slav’anskoi frazeologoii. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci: Olomouc, pp. 301-307.

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2020) Ekspressivnye vyrazhenia v politematicheskom dvuiazychnom slovare 'na vse sluchai'. Iz opyta sostavitelei. In: Emotsional'naia sfera cheloveka v iazyke i kommunikatsii: sinkhroniia i diakhroniia. Institut Iazykoznaniia RAN: Moscow, pp. 214-223. ISBN 9785917309873

2019

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 and Dunn, John (2019) Russian For All Occasions: a Russian-English Dictionary of Collocations and Expressions. Routledge. ISBN 9781138960749

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2019) -Kto? – Kon’ v pal’to! Dialogicheskie Idiomy v Slavianckich Iazykach: Iazykovaia Igra I Rechevaia Agressiia = -Kto? – Kon’ v pal’to! Slavonic dialogue idioms as language play and verbal aggression. In: Emotsional’naia sfera cheloveka w iazyke i kommunikatsii: sinkhroniia i diakhroniia. – Materialy mezhdunarodnoi konferencii. Institut Iazykoznaniia RAN: Moscow, pp. 241-247.

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 and Savkin, Aleksei (2019) Возвращения = Returns. [Exhibitions]

2017

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2017) Letters from Russia. Monochrome Photography Exhibition. Lecture: On the semiotics of photography in the USSR and after: some notes from within. [Exhibitions]

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2017) The alphabet in linguistic imagology. Ideological and aesthetic values in the disputes on the pre-reform Cyrillic letters in Russia before and after 1918. Studi Slavistici, 14, pp. 293-307. (doi: 10.13128/Studi_Slavis-21948)

2014

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2014) Writers’ linguistic observations and creating myths about languages: Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky in search of the ‘Slavonic genius of language’. Modern Language Review, 109(3), pp. 726-748. (doi: 10.5699/modelangrevi.109.3.0726)

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2014) Za siedmoma rzekami = Over Seven Rivers. [Exhibitions]

Khairov, S.V. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2014) O funktsional'noi, ku'lturnoi i ideologicheskoi interpretatsii alfavitov: iz istorii debatov o kirillicheskich bukvakh. Obrazovanie i samorazvitie: naucznyi pedagogicheskii i psikhiologicheskii zhurnal, 4(42), pp. 279-283.

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 and Szablewska, Aleksandra (2014) Autor, światło i obiekt. O fotografii rozmawiają Shamil Khairov i Aleksandra Szablewska. Tekstualia: Palimpsesty Literackie Artystyczne Naukowe, 3(38), pp. 187-193.

2013

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2013) Einfache Dinge = Simple Things. [Exhibitions]

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2013) Kniga Nadezhdy Zharintsevoi “The Russians and their language” i kul'turologicheskie interpretatcii russkogo iazyka. In: Pavlova, Anna (ed.) Ot lingvistiki k mifu: lingvisticheskaia kul'turologiia v poiskakh etnicheskoi mental'nosti. Anthology: Saint Petersburg, pp. 289-315. ISBN 9785949622322

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2013) Pisateli o metafizike slavianskikh iazykov: Milosh I Brodskii o pol'skom, russkom I angliiskom. In: The Nobel Prize for Literature - A Bridge between Cultures: International Conference, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, 1-3 Dec 2013, pp. 103-109.

2011

Dunn, John and Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2011) Modern Russian Grammar Workbook. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415425544

2009

Dunn, J.A. and Khairov, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2009) Modern Russian Grammar: A Practical Guide. Series: Routledge modern grammars. Routledge. ISBN 9780415422895

Dunn, John and Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2009) Modern Russian Grammar. A Practical guide. Series: Routledge Modern grammars. Routledge: Abignon UK; New York USA. ISBN 9780415422895

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Articles

Dunn, John and Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2021) Russian for all occasions: a polythematic Russian-English dictionary of collocations and expressions. The authors reflect on the idea behind the dictionary, the problems encountered and how they were solved. Slavonica, 26(2), pp. 85-104. (doi: 10.1080/13617427.2021.1998953)

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2017) The alphabet in linguistic imagology. Ideological and aesthetic values in the disputes on the pre-reform Cyrillic letters in Russia before and after 1918. Studi Slavistici, 14, pp. 293-307. (doi: 10.13128/Studi_Slavis-21948)

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2014) Writers’ linguistic observations and creating myths about languages: Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky in search of the ‘Slavonic genius of language’. Modern Language Review, 109(3), pp. 726-748. (doi: 10.5699/modelangrevi.109.3.0726)

Khairov, S.V. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2014) O funktsional'noi, ku'lturnoi i ideologicheskoi interpretatsii alfavitov: iz istorii debatov o kirillicheskich bukvakh. Obrazovanie i samorazvitie: naucznyi pedagogicheskii i psikhiologicheskii zhurnal, 4(42), pp. 279-283.

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 and Szablewska, Aleksandra (2014) Autor, światło i obiekt. O fotografii rozmawiają Shamil Khairov i Aleksandra Szablewska. Tekstualia: Palimpsesty Literackie Artystyczne Naukowe, 3(38), pp. 187-193.

Books

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 and Dunn, John (2019) Russian For All Occasions: a Russian-English Dictionary of Collocations and Expressions. Routledge. ISBN 9781138960749

Dunn, John and Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2011) Modern Russian Grammar Workbook. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415425544

Dunn, J.A. and Khairov, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2009) Modern Russian Grammar: A Practical Guide. Series: Routledge modern grammars. Routledge. ISBN 9780415422895

Dunn, John and Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2009) Modern Russian Grammar. A Practical guide. Series: Routledge Modern grammars. Routledge: Abignon UK; New York USA. ISBN 9780415422895

Book Sections

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2020) Dialogicheskiie idiomy v sovremennych slav’anskich iazykach: variacii formy. In: Arkhangel’skaia, Alla (ed.) Novoe v russkoi I slav’anskoi frazeologoii. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci: Olomouc, pp. 301-307.

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2020) Ekspressivnye vyrazhenia v politematicheskom dvuiazychnom slovare 'na vse sluchai'. Iz opyta sostavitelei. In: Emotsional'naia sfera cheloveka v iazyke i kommunikatsii: sinkhroniia i diakhroniia. Institut Iazykoznaniia RAN: Moscow, pp. 214-223. ISBN 9785917309873

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2019) -Kto? – Kon’ v pal’to! Dialogicheskie Idiomy v Slavianckich Iazykach: Iazykovaia Igra I Rechevaia Agressiia = -Kto? – Kon’ v pal’to! Slavonic dialogue idioms as language play and verbal aggression. In: Emotsional’naia sfera cheloveka w iazyke i kommunikatsii: sinkhroniia i diakhroniia. – Materialy mezhdunarodnoi konferencii. Institut Iazykoznaniia RAN: Moscow, pp. 241-247.

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2013) Kniga Nadezhdy Zharintsevoi “The Russians and their language” i kul'turologicheskie interpretatcii russkogo iazyka. In: Pavlova, Anna (ed.) Ot lingvistiki k mifu: lingvisticheskaia kul'turologiia v poiskakh etnicheskoi mental'nosti. Anthology: Saint Petersburg, pp. 289-315. ISBN 9785949622322

Conference or Workshop Item

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2024) Who Needs a Thematic Dictionary “for All Occasions” Today? A Compiler’s Notes. Third International Language-for-All Conference (LFAC '24), Adana, Turkey, 17-18 Oct 2024.

Conference Proceedings

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2013) Pisateli o metafizike slavianskikh iazykov: Milosh I Brodskii o pol'skom, russkom I angliiskom. In: The Nobel Prize for Literature - A Bridge between Cultures: International Conference, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, 1-3 Dec 2013, pp. 103-109.

Exhibitions

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 and Savkin, Aleksei (2019) Возвращения = Returns. [Exhibitions]

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2017) Letters from Russia. Monochrome Photography Exhibition. Lecture: On the semiotics of photography in the USSR and after: some notes from within. [Exhibitions]

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2014) Za siedmoma rzekami = Over Seven Rivers. [Exhibitions]

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2013) Einfache Dinge = Simple Things. [Exhibitions]

Website

Khairov, Shamil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305 (2023) The Tatars Of Mordovia: Culture & Daily Life. [Website]

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 10:28:30 2025 BST.

Supervision

I am currently a principal co-supervisor of Sophia Roberton's PhD project on Russian critical discourse analysis.

In the recent few years have co-supervised two Ph.D. projects: Andrea Liebshner's  on the language of Russian Social media VKontakte and Neil O’Docherty's on Russian Medieval history (I consulted Neil on translating the medieval chronicles).

Teaching

Since my permanent employment at Glasgow I have designed and taught a wide range of Russian courses for post-graduate and undergraduate students.  The portfolio of the courses I have taught also includes Polish, Slovak, Principles of Grammar for the Students of Slavonic Languages, Introduction into Slavonic Languages, and Russian Visual Culture.

My course on Russian C20 Visual Culture is probably the most successful here, and it is also highly popular abroad: I have delivered it, partly or in full, in Germany, Finland, Czechia, Belgium, and Slovakia.

Additional information

I am also involved in black-and-white art photography and had several solo exhibitions in Scotland and abroad.


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