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
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-1305Biography
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.
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.
