Dr Nigora Nasirova-Webber

Email:
n.nasirova@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+ 44 (0)118 387 3206
Job title:
Lecturer in Russian

Responsibilities:

IWLP Russian Language Module Convenor for all levels

Language Lead - Russian

Office

Miller G12

Building location

Miller building

Areas of interest

Teaching interests:

Teaching Russian language to students as a foreign language and Russian grammar to native Russian language speakers
Russian culture including history, classical and contemporary literature, music, cinema and art
Russian language and culture in Russia and in the Russian speaking countries of Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, etc), Caucuses (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) and Europe ( Ukraine and Baltic countries).

Research interests:

I completed my PhD at the Tashkent State University, in the Department of Modern Russian Language. The topic of the dissertation was ‘Word-formative modifications of ‘space’-‘time’ in Modern Russian’

Teaching

I teach on the IWLP Russian programme.

Background

I am from Uzbekistan, in Central Asia. I have a PhD in Russian language.

I taught at Tashkent University during the1990s. In 1999, I moved to the UK to take a Master’s Degree in Political Science at Reading University. I continued to teach at Reading for a couple of years, and then in London. My non-university students included diplomats, bankers and people just interested in learning Russian for pleasure. I began teaching Russian again at Reading University from 2011. In total, I have now been teaching Russian, for more than 25 years.

Academic qualifications

MA Degree in Language. Tashkent State University
PhD in Philology. Tashkent State University
MA in Euro-Asian Studies. The Centre for Euro-Asian Studies, The University of Reading
The Further and Adult Education Teachers Certificate. The City & Guilds of London Institute.