Editorial Board

Galina A. Baeva
Professor of German Philology Department, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Head of Foreign Languages and Linguodidactics Department
orcid .org/0000-0002-5058-7175

Field of scientific interests: Theoretical and applied research in the field of Germanic studies, synchronic and diachronic studies of the German language, historical pragmatics, oral and written speech in diachrony and synchrony
Academic biography: 1976 - graduated from the Philological Faculty of Leningrad State University with a degree in German language and Literature (German); 1979 - graduated from postgraduate studies at the Department of German Philology; 1980 - defended her PhD thesis on the topic: "Diachronic study of the genitive in the German language" (specialty 10.02.04 - Germanic languages); 1980 - Assistant of the of German Philology; 1985 - Associate Professor of the Department of German Philology;1995 - defense of the doctoral dissertation on the topic: "Typology of case and case management in synchrony and diachrony" (specialty 10.02.04 - Germanic languages and 10.02.19 - Theory of language)"; since 1995 - Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguodidactics; since 1996 - Professor of German Philology Department
Publications: The author of more than 150 scientific papers and teaching aids. Responsible editor of a number of thematic collections of scientific papers and collective monographs, including those published in German in Germany.

Claudia Bucheli Berger
PD Dr., University of Zurich

Field of scientific interests: Dialects, varieties, secret languages, creole languages, linguistic history of German and French, typology, formal grammars, construction grammar, orthography, norms, Helvetisms, Austriazisms, syntax, morphology.
Academic biography: 1991-1999 Studied German, Romance and general linguistics at the University of Zurich Switzerland, at the University of Sorbonne III Paris and at the Institut of Languages et Oriental Cultures (INALCO) Paris; 2000-2009 Research assistant professor in the project 'Dialect syntax of Swiss German' at the University of Zurich (Head: Prof. Dr. Elvira Glaser); 2006 PhD (University of Zurich); 2009 Substitute W3 professor in Germanic Philology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany; 2010-2011 guest researcher at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, with a grant; 2011-2020 substitute professor for German linguistics at the Swiss university of Fribourg/Freiburg, at University of Geneva and at University of Bern; 2018 further graduation named “Habilitation”, from which she received the venia legendi in German Linguistics at the University of Zurich (right to teach at professor level); 2020-2021 Deputy Head of the Tyrolean Dialect Archive at University of Innsbruck; 2021- now Senior Researcher at the Tyrolean Dialect Archive at University of Innsbruck
Past research projects: 2000-2009 'dialect syntax of Swiss German', University of Zurich; 2010-2011 ‘Casus syncretisms in Alemannic dialects’, University of Freiburg (D)

Svelana V. Burenkova
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Head of the Foreign Languages Department, Omsk State Technical University, Omsk, Russia
orcid.org/0000-0001-8061-6830

Graduated from the Omsk State Pedagogical University in 1994 with a degree in German and English. Defended her dissertations: Candidate of Philological Sciences. (2003), Ph. (2009) in the specialty 10.02.04 - Germanic Languages. Since 2016 till present he has been the head of Foreign Languages Department at OmSTU. He is the author of more than 150 scientific works and teaching aids, an active participant of scientific conferences and internships (Russia, Germany). He is also a member of editorial board of a peer-reviewed scientific journal OmSTU Bulletin. Humanitarian Studies. She is an editor of collections of scientific papers and proceedings of international conferences. He is a current member of Russian Association of Linguists and Cognitologists, and Russian Union of Germanists. Sphere of academic interests and areas of research: cognitive linguistics, confrontational lexicology, linguoculturology, lexicography, German language and methods of teaching.

Konstantin A. Filippov
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor at the Department of German Philology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg
orcid.org/0000-0001-8702-6112 

Graduated from Leningrad State University in 1976 with a degree in German language and literature. Defended dissertations: Candidate in Philology (1982), Doctor of Philology (1993) in the specialty 10.02.04 – Germanic languages. In 2004–2013 was the head of the department of German philology at St. Petersburg State University. Author of over 140 scientific papers and teaching aids. Member of the editorial board of the annual periodical “German Philology at St. Petersburg State University”. Responsible editor of a number of thematic collections of scientific works, collective monographs. Research interests: theoretical and applied research in the field of Germanic studies, theoretical and experimental phonetics, historical lexicography, comparative linguistics, text linguistics, discourse linguistics, the language of scientific communication, modern analysis of oral speech.

Christina Gansel
Extraordinary Professor, Scientific Associate, Department of German Linguistics, Institute for German Philology, Doctor philosophiae habilitatus

Christina Gansel graduated in German and Slavic Studies from the University of Education in Güstrow (Germany) in 1980. In 1984, she received her doctorate in German Linguistics and habilitated in 1989 (Dr. phil. habil). Since 1992 she has been a research associate at the Institute of German Philology at the University of Greifswald, where she was appointed associate professor in 1999. Christina Gansel is the author of more than 100 scientific publications. She is also co-editor of the series "Projekt Angewandte Linguistik" at LIT-Verlag (Münster) and of the online dictionary on text linguistics, stylistics and discourse linguistics at de Gruyter-Verlag Berlin (WSK volume 6 German). Her research interests include text-theoretical, grammar-theoretical, and applied aspects of Germanic linguistics, synchronic and diachronic studies of text variety linguistics in conjunction with systems-theoretical approaches.

Evgenia A. Goncharova
Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of German Philology, Professor, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg

In 1958, Prof. Evgenia Goncharova graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen. She defended the theses to attain the degrees of Candidate of Philological Sciences (1969) and Doctor of Philological Sciences (1989), majoring in German languages (specialty code – 10.02.04). From 1978 to 2008, Prof. Goncharova headed the Department of German Language of Herzen University. Since 2009 she has been working as a professor at the Department of German Philology. Prof. Goncharova has published more than 160 scientific papers and teaching aids. She has been an academic supervisor of 22 candidate theses and a scientific consultant of 10 doctoral ones. Scientific interests: linguistics of text and discourse, stylistics, linguistic pragmatics.

Marina Iakushevich
Ph.D., M.A. University of Paderborn, Germany

Marina Iakushevich is a linguist at the German Department of University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is working in the field of media communication. Her research addresses the role of language in the context of mass and social media. The main focus of her actual research operates at the intersection of linguistics and medicine. She is a co-coordinator of the international scientific network >Linguistic and Medicine< Discourses on health and Illness in the Interface of Objectified Diagnosis, Interactional Negotiation and Media Construction (DFG grant, www-linguistik-medizin.net). Further research areas are Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Persuasive Language, Science Journalism, Construction Grammar, Text Grammar, Phraseology, Pragmatics.

Irina J. Jesan
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of German Philology Department, St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg
orcid.org/0000-0002-7662-611X

Field of scientific interests: Political Linguistics, Linguistic Pragmatics, Text and Discourse Linguistics, Text Grammar, Language of Advertising and (Contemporary) Mass Media, Internet Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Methods of Foreign Language Teaching. Member of the Russian Union of Germanists, member of the Association Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sprache in der Politik e.V. (Working Group Language in Politics).
Academic biography: 1997 – Foreign Languages Faculty of Kurgan State University (diploma with distinction). Specialty: German and English Teacher; 1998-2001 – Postgraduate student in Linguistics (study field 10.02.04 – German Languages), St. Petersburg State University; 2002-2004 – Assistant Lecturer, Foreign Business Language Department, St. Petersburg State University; 2004 – Candidate of Philological Sciences; study field 10.02.04 – German Languages, thesis title: “Evaluation in public speech: A case study of contemporary German politicians’ speech)”; 2006-2010 – Assistant Professor of German Philology Department, St. Petersburg State University; 2010 - The academic title of Associate Professor; 2010 - to present time – Associate Professor of German Philology Department, St. Petersburg State University.
Publications: The author of over 70 scientific papers and study guides. The senior editor of three scientific works collections (the periodical German Philology in St. Petersburg State University) and the collection of articles in German language.

Mikhail V. Koryshev
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor at Department of Comparative Studies of Languages and Cultures, Head of German Philology Department and the Dean of the Faculty of Philology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia 
orcid.org/0000-0001-8946-4431

Mikhail Koryshev is an Associate Professor at Department of Comparative Studies of Languages and Cultures and the Dean of the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University. His research interests focus on German language and culture, literary studies, as well as on Catholic hymns and hymnography. He obtained a Ph.D. in Philology from St. Petersburg State University in 2005. He was a visiting lecturer in Germany, his research was supported by Erasmus and DAAD-Stiftung. He is the author of more than 70 papers in Russian and international peer-reviewed journals and book series.

Liudmila Y. Slinina
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of German Philology Department, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
orcid.org/0000-0002-0000-404X

Field of scientific interests: Specialist in theoretical and applied research in German Studies, in synchronic studies of German language, in lexicology and word formation of the German language, in media linguistics, text and discourse linguistics, intercultural communication, language criticism.
Academic biography: 1993 — graduated from Saint Petersburg State University in, specializing in German language and literature; 1995-2013 — worked in the Department of German Language at Saint Petersburg University; 2010 — PhD in German Philology, thesis on the topic “Adnominal Adjectives with Temporal Meaning in the Modern German Language”, scientific subject 10.02.04 — Germanic languages; 2013 to the present — Associate Professor in the Department of German Philology at Saint Petersburg State University. She had scientific internships at the University of Innsbruck, at the University of Jena and at the University of Greifswald and was a fellow of OeAD and of the lecturer program of Robert Bosch Foundation.
Publications: Author of more than 60 research papers and textbooks.