Denis Zubalov
- Assistant Professor: Faculty of Humanities / School of Philological Studies
- Denis Zubalov has been at HSE University since 2014.
Education and Degrees
University of Cyprus
Thesis Title: A Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Processes of Language Shift/Language Maintenance: The Case of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus
University of Cyprus, English Studies
Thesis Title: Language and Ethnic Identity of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus
University of Essex, Language and Linguistics
University of Cyprus, English Studies
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
‘Elicitation games for L1/L2 research’. University of Essex. Colchester, UK.
(23rd, January 2008).
"Sociolinguistic Perspectives" LANCHART Centre and the GradEast Graduate School in Linguistics.International Summer School: University of Copenhagen, Denmark (7-12, June 2010).
‘IELTS examinations’. Cambridge English, British Council. Nicosia, Cyprus. Invited speakers: Peter Lucantoni and Bob Obee. (6th , March 2013).
‘Establishing effective writing centres’. Higher School of Economics, MIS&S, NES Skolkovo. Moscow, Russia. (30th November – 2nd December, 2015).
‘Marketing of Master’s programmes’ Higher School of Economics, Voronovo Education Centre, Russia (21-22, March, 2018).
‘Effective strategies of professional development in academia’ Higher School of Economics, Voronovo Education Centre, Russia (8-10, February, 2019).
'Multilingual Cities' University of Manchecter, Manchester, UK (summer-autumn 2019).
Awards and Accomplishments
Winner of Educational Innovations Contest, NRU HSE - 2020.
3rd Best Teacher in Higher Education in Russia - 2018.
Contest for the best young teachers in higher education, Moscow, Russia.
Best Teacher — 2019–2023
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2019–2020)
Academic duties
Head of the Academic Council of the Master's program "Language policy in the context of ethnocultural diversity".
Courses (2024/2025)
- Bilingualism and multilingualism in the context of ethnocultural diversity (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3 module)Eng
- Bilingualism and multilingualism in the context of ethnocultural diversity (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
- Intercultural Communication: Theory and Practice (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Language Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Language Policy (Mago-Lego; 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Craft of Comparisons" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Sociolinguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Sociolinguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics and Modern Research Methods (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Sociolinguistics and Modern Research Methods (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Bilingualism and multilingualism in the context of ethnocultural diversity (Mago-Lego; 3, 4 module)Eng
- Bilingualism and multilingualism in the context of ethnocultural diversity (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Language Policy (Mago-Lego; 1-4 module)Rus
- Language Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Craft of Comparisons" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Sociolinguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Sociolinguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics and Modern Research Methods (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Eng
- Sociolinguistics and Modern Research Methods (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2022/2023)
- Bilingualism and multilingualism in the context of ethnocultural diversity (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Bilingualism and multilingualism in the context of ethnocultural diversity (Mago-Lego; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Language Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Language Policy (Mago-Lego; 1-4 module)Rus
- Language in Society: Current Challenges (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Craft of Comparisons" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Sociolinguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Sociolinguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics and Modern Research Methods (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Sociolinguistics and Modern Research Methods (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Eng
Courses (2021/2022)
- Bilingualism and multilingualism in the context of ethnocultural diversity (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Ethnolinguistic vitality (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- History and Methodology of Science: Sociolinguistics and Contemporary Research Methods (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Language Assessment in the Classroom (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Language Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Language in Society (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Language in Society: Current Challenges (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Learning to Teach Online (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education in the Context of Bilingualism and Multilingualism (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Sociolinguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Sociolinguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- The Bilingual Brain (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
Courses (2020/2021)
- Bilingualism and Multilingualism in Terms of Super-Diversity (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Communicative management in contemporary transnational corporations (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Ethnolinguistic vitality (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- History and Methodology of Science: Sociolinguistics and Contemporary Research Methods (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Language Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Language in Society: Current Challenges (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education in the Context of Bilingualism and Multilingualism (Studied in English) (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Language Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Sociolinguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Massive Open Online Courses HSE
Coursera online platform
Introduction to Multilingual and Multicultural Education
2020: Member of the Editorial Board, Frontiers in Communication.https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/sections/culture-and-communication
Grants
HSE, Faculty of Humanities grant 2022-2023: project: "Anglicisms in New Russian Mediaformats". Head of the case, within the framework of Big HSE project "Language Practices in Contemporary Russian Society". Project leader - Mira Bergelson.
HSE, Faculty of Humanities grant 2021-2022: project: "Language in Aviation". Head of the case, within the framework of Big HSE project "Language Practices in Contemporary Russian Society". Project leader - Mira Bergelson.
HSE, School of Psychology grant 2020-2022: project "Plurilingual Intercultural Creative Keys (PICK)". Research group member.
HSE, School of Foreign Languages grant 2020-2021: project "Digitalisation of Higher Education as a Result of the Pandemic" (Project's academic supervisor and research group member. Project leader - Arina Barasiy).
HSE, Young Faculty Development Programme 2019-2020: project "Development and positioning of a module for foreing (English-speaking students) and ways of its promotion (Project leader - Denis Zubalov).
Presidential Grants Foundation 2019-2020: project "Mosaics of native languages of the Russian Federation" (in collaboration with the Federal National Cultural Autonomy of Greeks of Russia).
RGNF (Russian Humanities Research Fund) Grant 2016-2018 : project "Languages of Moscow" (in collaboration with the Institute of Linguistics, RAS).
Conferences
- 2023
5th International Conference on Multilingual Urban Space: Policy, Identity, Education (Москва). Presentation: The role of anglicisms in the speech of Russian YouTube influencers: First results
5th International Conference on Multilingual Urban Space: Policy, Identity, Education (Москва). Presentation: Multilingualism in the linguistic landscape of Moscow
- 2021
Language Ideologies, Identity and Authenticity in Minoritised Greek-speaking Communities (Westminster). Presentation: Greekness reclaimed: language, culture, identity of the Greek diaspora in Russia
HSE LED Conference (Москва). Presentation: «Топовый экспириенс» Anglicisms as a tool of social identity construction: The case of Wylsacom YouTube-channel
- 2020
eSTARS: Transformation of Education to Meet Global Trends of the Digital Economy (Москва). Presentation: Digitalisation of Higher Education as a Result of the Pandemic
- 2019
University Public Engagement with Urban Multilingualism: A Conversational Conference (Манчестер). Presentation: Dynamic multilingualism: The city of Moscow
Current Discourses on Language Policy and Planning in Turkic Speaking Countries (Фрайбург). Presentation: Language policy in Russia: New opportunities or new challenges?
Language Maintenance and the Development of Linguistic Diversity in Cyberspace: Context, Policy, Practice (Якутск). Presentation: Linguistic and ethnic identity revival of the Greeks in Russia
Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning (Toronto). Presentation: The Language Policy Question in Russia: What Challenges Need to Faced Today
2nd World Congress: East-West: The intersection of Cultures (Kyoto). Presentation: Multilingual Identity in Multicultural Russia
- 2018
The Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention: Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity (Нью Йорк). Presentation: Keeping Balance between Language Maintenance and Language Policy in a Russian School with a Georgian Ethno-cultural Component in Moscow
2nd International Connect Malaysia (Connect’M) Conference 2018: Language & Literacy in Multilingual Societies (Джохор Бару). Presentation: Home language use in a multilingual classroom: Why not conform to the language policy? The case of the Moscow school with a Georgian ethno-cultural component
XIX Апрельская международная научная конференция (Москва). Presentation: Languages of Moscow: Linguistic diversity of a mega-city
East & West Event 2018 (Санкт Петербург). Presentation: Russian women on Tinder
Linguistic Unity and Linguistic Diversity in a Polyethnic Statе (Москва). Presentation: Greeks of Moscow: e pluribus unum or unity in linguistic and cultural diversity
Globalizing Sociolinguistics (Leiden). Presentation: Urban Multilingualism: The Case of Moscow
- 2017
The i-Mean 5th International Conference: Meaning in Social Interaction (Бристоль). Presentation: Language as an inextricable part of ethnic identity construction: The case of Georgian adolescent group in Moscow
Spacial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction: Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography (Цюрих ). Presentation: Crossing boundaries: the role of language and space in (re)shaping identity of ethnic Georgian teenagers in Moscow
Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity (Лозанна). Presentation: Migrants’ homeland, language, ethnic and cultural self-perception: The case of teenage Georgian students in Moscow
International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (Ханья). Presentation: Monolingual language policy in a bilingual school: the case of the Moscow school with a Georgian ethno-cultural component
Языковая политика: общероссийская экспертиза (Москва). Presentation: Языковая политика в семьях греков из стран бывшего СССР постоянно проживающих на Кипре
- 2016
Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development. HOLM 2016 (Берлин). Presentation: The Role of the Home Language in the Secondary School with a Georgian Ethno-Cultural Component in Moscow
The Impact of Socio-Political Transformations on Language and Identity (Тбилиси). Presentation: Is Identity Important? A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Students in the Moscow School with a Georgian Ethno-Cultural Component
Language, Indexicality and Belonging (Оксфорд). Presentation: 'The Language of My Enemy is My Mother Tongue': Turkish in the Community of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus
XVII APRIL INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (Moscow). Presentation: Politics, Language Ideology and Identity: The Case of Pontic Greek Immigrants in Cyprus
European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2016) (Дублин). Presentation: The Linguistic and Socio-cultural Transition of Students in the Moscow Secondary School with a Georgian Ethno-cultural Component
Political Dimensions in Education: Memory, Identity and Cultural Representations (Nicosia). Presentation: Migration and identity transformation of young Pontic Greeks in Cyprus and Georgians in Russia
- 2015
Culture in society, between groups and across generations (Москва). Presentation: To Be or Not to Be: National and Ethnic Cultural Values Transmission Patterns within the Community of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus
The Magic of Innovation: New Trends in Language Research and Teaching Foreign Languages (Москва). Presentation: Internal and External Factors Influencing Language Choice in Cross-cultural Communication
The i-Mean 4th International Conference: Language and Impact (Ворвик). Presentation: Intra-communal Language Policy: The Impact of Language Use on the Construction of Ethnic and Cultural Identity of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus
Transcultural Urban Spaces: Where Geography Meets Language (Берн). Presentation: Multilingual Moscow: A Sociolinguistic Investigation
Language. Culture. Translation. Communication (Москва). Presentation: Cultural and Communication Patterns of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus and Russia: Identifying Differences and Similarities
The Politics of Teaching and Learning Languages (Лондон). Presentation: A Georgian Teacher in a Russian School with a Georgian Ethno-cultural Component: Strategies and Mismatches in Language/Culture Preservation
- 2014
Language Policy and Language Conflicts in Contemporary World (Москва). Presentation: Language and Ethnos: Compromise or Conflict? The Case of the Turkish Language within the Pontic Greek Community in Cyprus
Visible and Invisible Borders: Language Use Expressing Group Belonging and Change in the Georgian Greek Community. Presentation: We and They: Inter- and Intra-communal Ethno-linguistic Borders. The Case of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus
Sociolinguistics Symposium 20: Language / Time / Space. Presentation: The Russian Language Demands in the Greek Cypriot Job Market: The Case of Pontic Greeks
- 2013
Internal seminar at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Russian State University for the Humanities. Presentation: Transitional Sociolinguistic Processes in the Community of Russian Greeks in the North Caucasus
19th International HSE Annual April Conference (Москва). Presentation: Языки Москвы: Языковое разнообразие мегаполиса
- 2012
Sociolinguistics Symposium 19: Language and the City. Presentation: A Sociolinguistic Reformatting of the Pontic Greek Community in a Russian Post-Soviet Town
- 2011
International Conference: The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Twenty Years on. Presentation: Russian Language – Greek Identity: The Case of Pontic Greeks in Russia
Relocating Cultures International Conference. Presentation: Mother Land, Historical Mother Land or Host Country? A Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Pontic Greek Community in Russia
- 2010
International Summer School 2010: Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Presentation: Language Contact: Shift or Maintenance? The Case of the Pontic Greek Community in Cyprus and Russia
Linguists of Tomorrow - The 1st International Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics at the University of Cyprus. Presentation: A Sociolinguistic Overview of the Pontic Greek Community in Russia
The Russian Language Outside the Nation: Speakers and Identities. Presentation: Language and Identity: Where are the Meeting Points? The Case of the Pontic Greek Community in Cyprus
- 2009
The 19th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Presentation: The Status of Russian as an Intra-communal Language within the Pontic Greek Community in Cyprus
- 2008
Languages for Intercultural Dialogue. Presentation: Foreign Language Needs of Pontic Greek Students in the State Educational System in Cyprus
The 3rd Language at the University of Essex International Postgraduate Conference. Presentation: Language and Identity of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus
- 2007
The 3rd International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory. Presentation: Language Attitudes among Russians of Greek Origin towards the Linguistic Variety in the Cypriot Greek Speech Community
‘The Processes of Urbanisation and Its Impact on People’s Language Practices Are of Major Scientific Interest’
On April 6–8, 2023, HSE University-Moscow hosted the Fifth International Conference Multilingual Urban Space: Policy, Identity, Education. Every year, researchers from around the world attend the conference to share their research and exchange ideas on multilingualism in urban settings.
Challenges and Problems of Online Learning: Highlights From the Final Day of eSTARS 2020
eSTARS 2020, the international education conference organized by HSE University in partnership with the global educational platform Coursera, reached its conclusion on December 2. This year, which marked the annual event’s 3rd meeting, the conference was held entirely online for the first time.
Expedition to Primorsky Krai
As part of the HSE “Rediscovering Russia” program, seven first-year graduate students spent a week in Primorsky Krai. The field expedition, held in Vladivostok, was aimed at studying multilingualism, value orientations, migration, local identity, family and state language policies of the region.
Coursera Offers New Courses by HSE Lecturers
From late March and early April, HSE will offer four new coursers on Coursera on intercultural communication, machine learning, computer vision, and stochastic processes.
HSE’s New Master’s Programme: Training Specialists in Language Policy
The first intake into this new Master’s programme will be in 2018 and its graduates will be able to work in the field of language policy. Denis Zubalov, Academic Supervisor of the programme 'Language Policy in the Context of Ethnocultural Diversity' told the HSE News Service all about what students will be studying, how urbanization is linked to language policy and what killer languages are.
IOE Study Published in Top-Rank International Journal
A recent paper by Denis Zubalov, an Associate Professor with IOE’s Graduate School of Education, has been published in Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford.
New Publication in an International Journal
An article by researcher at the Institute of Education Denis Zubalov has been published in STUF - Language Typology and Universals journal. It is an international journal, published in Germany, which is indexed in SCOPUS database.