Leadership

Marina Tashlykova

Director

Dean of the Faculty of Philology and Journalism.

Education: Irkutsk State University, major discipline "Philology.  Russian language and literature".

Degree: candidate of philological sciences (major discipline 10.02.01. Russian language).

Academic status: associate professor.

Scientific interest: lexical and grammatical semantics, Russian dialectology, word formation, forensic linguistics.

Main publications http://slovo.isu.ru/ru/philology/ruslang/tashlikova.html 

The head of the Graduate program 45.04.01 "Philology", field of study "Forensic Linguistics".

There are 7 candidate's dissertations defended under the supervision of Marina Tashlykova.

Foreign language proficiency: English (B2), German (B1), Czech (B2)

Grants and internships, research projects:

2017, 2018 Implementation of the event of the Federal Special-purpose programme "Russian Language" 2016-2020 for the development of content, forms, methods which increase the personnel potential of teachers and specialists in the study of the Russian language (as a native, non-native, foreign) in educational organizations of the Russian Federation, as well as for the use of the Russian language as the state language of the Russian Federation.

2015 Research project of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Cross-border challenges to the nation state."

2012 – 2016 Work organization for the project “Russian dialects of the Baikal region: synchrony and diachrony”.

2012 – 2016 Work under the program "Strategic Development of Irkutsk State University":

  • project P214-08-004 “Applied and fundamental aspects of modern philological science” (supervisor);
  • project P321-08-001 "Network project Russian for everyone" (supervisor);
  • project P321-08-003 “Research work of schoolchildren as a form of career guidance” (supervisor);

2013 guest lecture course on the problems of forensic linguistics at Minsk State University.

2013 – 2017 Participation in the project implementation "School of a young author".

2010 – 2011 Participation in the grant No. 110-06-706: Network interregional project "Nostalgia for the Soviet in the social and cultural context of modern Russia". Co-director of the Irkutsk part of the project (topic “Nostalgia for the Soviet Union as a means and result of manipulating public consciousness”).

2009 – 2010 Lecture and research visit at the Institute of Slavonic Studies at Kiel University.

2004  Research internship under the program “Building the Curriculum in Public Relations and Mass Communications at Russian Universities”, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (School  of  Journalism and  Mass Communication), USA, North Carolina.

2002 – 2003 Lecture and research visit at the Slavonic Seminar at Kiel University.

1999 – 2000 Lecture and research visit at the Slavonic Seminar at Kiel University.


Julia Arskaya

Deputy director for supplementary education and international relations, head of the Department of Russian as a foreign language.

Education: Irkutsk State Linguistic University, major discipline "Linguistics and intercultural communication"

Degree: candidate of philological sciences (major discipline 10.01.01 – Russian literature)

Academic status: associate professor of the Department of Russian language and general linguistics.

Scientific interests: Russian grammar in the aspect of teaching Russian as a foreign language, grammar of poetry, linguistic poetics, Russian postmodernist literature, German postmodernist literature.

Main publications http://slovo.isu.ru/ru/philology/ruslang/arskaya.html 

Academic supervisor of master's programs 45.04.01 Philology "Teaching Russian as a foreign language"

Foreign language proficiency: English (C 1), German (C1-C2), Czech (B 2)

Institutor and head of the "Summer school of advanced Russian” and "Summer school of Russian language and its teaching methods".

Grants and internships, research projects:

2000 – 2001         DAAD scholarship for students of German language studies, internship at the University of Rostock (Germany) (project "theory of open work of art by Umberto Eco as the basis of the analysis of postmodernist literature (the case of Patrick Süskind’s novel "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer"))

2003 – 2004         DAAD scholarship for young scientists, internship at the University of Leipzig (project "Absolute in deconstructing consciousness: the paradigm of creative work in Russian and German postmodernist literature»)

2009 – 2011         Network research project "Nostalgia for the Soviet in the sociocultural context of modern Russia", role in the project – participant

January – June 2011       Grant of the Fund of cultural initiatives (Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation), internship at the Institute of the Humanities  (Vienna, Austria) (project "Understanding of totalitarianism in Russian and German postmodern literature»)

2012  Grant of "Fund of cultural initiatives" (Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation), project "Festival of Slavic languages at the lake Baikal", head of the project

November 2018 – January 2019        Lecture and research visit at the Institute of Slavonic Studies of Kiel University (Germany).


Olga Kuznetsova

Dean of the Faculty of Foreign languages

Education: Irkutsk State Linguistic University, major discipline "Philology"; Moscow State Linguistic University, field of study "Foreign regional studies"

Degree: candidate of Philological Sciences (major discipline 10.02.04. – Germanic languages), master's degree (Foreign regional studies)

Academic status: associate professor of the Department of Oriental and Regional Studies of the Asia-Pacific Region.

Scientific interests: regional studies of the Asia-Pacific countries, American studies, theory and methodology of regional studies, studies of foreign policy processes, diplomacy.

Main publications https://elibrary.ru/author_items.asp?authorid=693942

Foreign language proficiency: English (C1), French (B2), Spanish (B2), Korean (A2).

 

Grants and internships, research projects:

2019-2020 – Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant "History and methodology of regional studies of the Asia-Pacific region in the context of modern transdisciplinary regionology".


Svetlana Malykh

Deputy director for general affairs

Education: Irkutsk state university, major discipline "Advertising"

Degree: candidate of Historical Sciences (major discipline 07.00.02 Russian history).

Academic status: associate professor of social structure, social institutions and processes

Scientific interest: advertising history, marketing, university management.

Main publications https://isu.ru/ru/science/young_sovet/sostav/malyh.html

Foreign language proficiency: English (C1)

Grants and internships, research projects:

March-April 2006 – Research internship program "Building the Curriculum in Public Relations and Mass Communications at Russian Universities”, University of North Carolina, USA, North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

February-March 2011 – Individual grant for the development of innovative opportunities in the framework of the program "Basic Research and Higher Education" CRDF trip to the United States, a key event –

AUTM 2011 Annual Meeting – Las Vegas, NV (February 27 – March 2, 2011)

http://www.autm.net/Meeting_Home2.htm

October 2012 – Individual grant for the program "Open world", topic "Higher education", Washington, DC, Lynchburg, Virginia

June 2018 – Erasmus+ staff mobility agreement, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.


Olga Mikhaleva

Deputy director for academic work

Education: Irkutsk State University, major discipline "Philology. Russian language and literature".

Degree: candidate of Philological Sciences (major discipline 10.02.01 – Russian language)

Academic title: associate professor of the Department of Russian language and General linguistics.

Scientific interest: discourse analysis, communication theory, oral speech research, communicative qualities of speech, speech influence, mind manipulation, sociolinguistics, narrative research, in-depth interviews.

Main publications: http://slovo.isu.ru/ru/philology/ruslang/mikhaleva.html

Academic program manager 45.03.01. Philology "Russian philology (Russian language and Russian literature)",  45.03.01. "Applied philology (philological support of social communications)".

PhD thesis defended under Olga Mikhaleva’s supervision:

A. Racheva, "Deictic units with space semantics of the verbal discourse: marking of discursive processes".

Since 2005 – member of the task force "Forensic linguistic examination of the text: problems and prospects". Upon the recommendation of the prosecution authorities Olga Mikhaleva takes part in the production of forensic linguistic examinations.

Since 2012 – participation in the dialectological expedition of Irkutsk State University (Barguzin district of the Republic of Buryatia).

Grants and internships, research projects

November 2004  – January 2005 Scientific and pedagogical training at the Institute of Slavistics of Kiel University, Germany.

October 2005 – December 2005        Scientific training in the area of "Efficiency of mass communication" on the grant BECA "Building the Curriculum in Public Relations and mass communications at Russian universities", providing for cooperation of three universities (UNC, MGIMO, ISU), at the University of North Carolina, USA.

November 2011 – January 2012 lecture and research visit at the Institute of Slavonic Studies of Kiel University, Germany.

2009 – 2011 Network research project "Nostalgia for the Soviet in the sociocultural context of modern Russia", occupation – head of the project. The results obtained in the research are analyzed and summarized in the collective monograph "The Soviet as a discursive phenomenon: methods of conceptualization of the past" / O. L. Mikhaleva, A. A. Racheva, M. B. Tashlykova [et ctr.]; under the general editorship of O. L. Mikhaleva. – Irkutsk: ISU publishing house, 2013. – 204 p. In 2014, the book received the diploma of the winner of the first all-Russian innovative public competition in the nomination "the best scientific monograph".

April 2016 – July 2016 lecture and research visit at the Institute of Slavonic Studies of Kiel University, Germany.