Alexandra Nagornaya
- Professor: School of Foreign Languages
- Alexandra Nagornaya has been at HSE University since 2018.
Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
Thesis Title: Verbal representation of interoceptive sensations in contemporary English
Ulyanov Ulyanovsk State Teacher Training Institute
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2019–2024
Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses
- 1D. U. Mirzaeva Cancel culture as a discourse phenomenon in the English-speaking culture
- 2J. C. Nwankwo Contemporary discourses of cancer. A comparative study of the English speaking cultures and Nigeria
Courses (2024/2025)
- Adviser's Seminar "Current Paradigms of Linguistic Studies" (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Adviser's Seminar "Current Paradigms of Linguistic Studies" (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- English for the Current Sociocultural Agenda (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages field of study Linguistics, field of study Linguistics, field of study Linguistics, field of study Linguistics; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- English for the Current Sociocultural Agenda (Mago-Lego; 1-4 module)Rus
- Faces and Facets of Linguistic Creativity (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to Metaphor Studies (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Mass Communications and Media Discourse (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar “Modern Schools and Trends in Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Adviser's Seminar "Current Paradigms of Linguistic Studies" (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Adviser's Seminar "Current Paradigms of Linguistic Studies" (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- English for the Current Sociocultural Agenda (Mago-Lego; 1-4 module)Eng
- English for the Current Sociocultural Agenda (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages field of study Linguistics, field of study Linguistics, field of study Linguistics, field of study Linguistics; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Linguistic Creativity (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Mass Communications and Media Discourse (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Introduction to Metaphor Studies" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar “Modern Schools and Trends in Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Adviser's Seminar "Current Paradigms of Linguistic Studies" (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- English for the Current Sociocultural Agenda (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages field of study Linguistics, field of study Linguistics, field of study Linguistics, field of study Linguistics; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- English for the Current Sociocultural Agenda (Mago-Lego; 1-4 module)Eng
- Introduction to Metaphor Studies (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Mass Communications and Media Discourse (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Modern Schools and Trends in Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- English for the Current Social Agenda (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Introduction to Metaphor Studies (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Mass Communications and Media Discourse (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Modern Schools and Trends in Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Mass Communications and Media Discourse (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Modern Schools and Trends in Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Practice in Speech Culture of the First Foreign Language (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Qualification (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar "Issues in Contemporary Linguistics" (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Speech Culture of the First Foreign Language (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
Conferences
- 2023
ДИСКУРС И ЯЗЫК В ЭПОХУ “БОЛЬШИХ ДАННЫХ”: ЛИНГВОКРЕАТИВНЫЕ ПРЕДЕЛЫ И ВОЗМОЖНОСТИ (Москва). Presentation: «Здравицина» и «здравологизмы»: хелсистский дискурс как территория языковых экспериментов
- 2022
Gender and Power (Лондон). Presentation: ‘The Libido Accepts All Currencies’: Post-Gender Desire Narrative in André Aciman’s Prose
Gender and Power (Лондон). Presentation: ‘The Libido Accepts All Currencies’: Post-Gender Desire Narrative in André Aciman’s Prose
- 2021
"Люди речисты" (научно-практическая молодежная блог-конференция) (Ульяновск). Presentation: COVID-19 и эпонимическая контроверза в современной медицинской терминологии
"Люди речисты" (научно-практическая молодежная блог-конференция) (Ульяновск). Presentation: COVID-19 и эпонимическая контроверза в современной медицинской терминологии
Пространство научных интересов: иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация – современные векторы развития и перспективы (Москва). Presentation: Лингвистика в современном гуманитарном контексте: возможности междисциплинарного взаимодействия
Пространство научных интересов: иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация – современные векторы развития и перспективы (Москва). Presentation: Лингвистика в современном гуманитарном контексте: возможности междисциплинарного взаимодействия
RaAM14 (Researching and applying metaphor) (Вильнюс). Presentation: ‘Languishing in Hangoverland’ and ‘Hibernating on Smirnoff Island’: Metaphorical Spaces and Places in Discourses of Alcohol Addiction
Круглый стол «Редактируя человека: этико-философские перспективы биоидентичности» (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: «Культурная аутопсия»: внутреннее тело в визуальном и вербальном пространстве современного западного человека
- 2020
XVII Международные Березинские чтения: "Языковое бытие человека и этноса" (Москва). Presentation: Метафоры, которыми мы стареем: метафорический ландшафт старения и старости современной Америки.
- 2018
Молодежь и наука: Слово, текст, личность (Ульяновск). Presentation: Грани и границы метафорической креативности: Языковые эксперименты Стивена Кинга
- 2017
43 Osterreichische Linguistiktagung 2017 (Клагенфурт). Presentation: Creative madness metaphors in S. King’s prose
- 2016
Metaphor Festival 2016 (Амстердам). Presentation: Metaphors We Feel By: Interoceptive sensations as natural phenomena
Metaphor Festival 2016 (Амстердам). Presentation: 'Platypus', 'Macaca', 'Goldilocks' and Other 'Perhaps-inevitable' Moments
- 2015
Человек ощущающий: Перцепция в современном гуманитарном знании (Москва). Presentation: Перцептивные процессы как объект исследования в современных гуманитарных науках
Язык лингвокультурологии: теория vs эмпирия (Москва). Presentation: ”Письмо от тела” как феномен современной англоязычной лингвокультуры
- 2014
5th International Conference on Cognitive Linguistics (Ланкастер). Presentation: Hungry Spears, Awakened Bandsaws and Gripping Waves: Mixed Metaphors in Interoceptive Discourse
Nordic Intercultural Communication Conference (Рейкьявик). Presentation: Communicating bodily experiences across languages and cultures
- 2013
International Journal of Arts and Sciences (Вена). Presentation: Mythopoesis of the Inner Body in Contemporary Western Culture
Metaphor Festival (Стокгольм). Presentation: Metaphor and the Inner Body: The Story of a Glorious Conquest
ATINER (Афины). Presentation: Stephen King's Body Worlds: Language Convnetions and Creativity in Depicting the Inner Body
International Journal of Arts and Sciences (Фрайбург). Presentation: Discourse of the Inexplicable: Verbal representation of interoceptive sensations
Editorial board membership
From Cultural Appropriation to Prison Jargon: Second Semi-Final of Science Battles Takes Place at HSE University
On March 19, the second semi-final of the fourth season of HSE University Science Battles brought together the topics of cultural appropriation, pharmacological neural networks, prison jargon, and ‘diseases’ of higher education on the same stage. Students from various degree programmes presented their projects in the Community space. Read on to find out more about the performances featured in the semi-finals.