During the 2002-2003 academic year, Erjen Khilkhanova was a visiting research professor at The George Washington University, affiliated with the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. Her stay in the USA was supported by the Junior Faculty Development Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Her advisor at GWU was Professor Gregory Squires, Department of Sociology.

Erjen Khilkhanova is an associate professor at Eastern-Siberian State Academy of Culture & Arts. She is currently teaching courses in the Russian Language and Standards of Speech, Sociolinguistics, and Ethnolinguistics. She is also in charge of several activities in the Department and the Center of Sociolinguistics and Speech Communications, such as research, international and interregional contacts, and fundraising.

In 1991 Erjen Khilkhanova graduated from Moscow State University with a double major in Linguistics & Literature. After two years of teaching at the Buryat State University she became a postgraduate student at the Faculty of Philology, Department of German Studies at Moscow State University. In 1997 Erjen received a Ph.D. in Linguistics (major - Discourse Analysis). The topic of her thesis was, "Discourse of the BILD Newspaper as the Object of Linguistic Research".

In 1998 and 1999 she received a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation for participation in a faculty development seminar for Young Russian University Teachers at the Ruhr University (Bochum, Germany). Concentration: German language, German literature & German culture (Certificate).

Erjen has published extensively in the field of Discourse Analysis, Social Studies, Sociolinguistics, and Functional Linguistics focusing on the study of (re)production mechanisms of various (e.g., ethnocentric, racist) ideologies in mass media discourse and in prejudiced discourse in general. Her book entitled "The Language Construction of Reality in the German Tabloid Press (on Materials of the Bild, Newspaper)" was chosen for digitalization and publication in the OSI's electronic library as one of the best works sponsored by the Research Support Scheme. In addition to the RSS grant, she was awarded a Junior Visiting Fellowship in the Nationalism Studies Program at the Central European University, CRC grant.

Lately, her research interests have been mostly in culture, language and ethnic identity.

PUBLICATIONS
Articles:

1. 'Opportunities of the method of Technology of Participation as a Means of Improving Russian Universities,' E. V. Khilkhanova. (Paper in Russian)

2. ‘Cultural Differences and their Implications for Managing International Projects’, F.T.Anbari, E.V.Khilkhanova, M.V.Romanova, S.A.Umpleby. 17th IPMA World Congress on Project Management, Moscow, June 2003 (accepted for publication and in press).

3. ‘The Changing Dynamics of Language and Ethnic Identity Link by Russian Minorities: the Buryat Case Study’, Journal of Eurasian Research (accepted for publication and in press).

4. ‘Language and Ethnic Identity of Minorities in post-Soviet Russia: the Buryat Case Study’, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, USA (accepted for publication and in press).

5. With Gulmira Asanbaeva. ‘Gender and Business: Comparing Kyrgyzstan and the U.S.A’. 18th Annual Washington Consortium of Schools of Business Research Forum. Washington, DC. April 12, 2003.

6. With Dorji Khilkhanov. ‘Private Property in Russia and the West as a Foundation for Cultural Differences’. 18th Annual Washington Consortium of Schools of Business Research Forum. Washington, DC. April 12, 2003.

7. ‘Culture and National Identity (Experience of Discourse Analysis)’, Baikal Meetings – III: Cultures of Siberian Peoples: Materials of the III-rd International symposium. P.II. – Ulan-Ude: Izdatelsko-poligraficheskiy komplex VSGAKI, 2001.

8. ‘Racism, Mass Media Discourse and Language’, Natural & Intellectual Resources of Siberia (Sibresurs-7-2001): Reports of the 7-th International scientific-practical conference. – Barnaul, 17-19 September 2001: 2 Parts. Part 2 / Editor V. N. Maslennikov. – Tomsk: Izdatelstvo Tomskogo un-ta, 2001. – 296 p. ISBN 5-7511-1396-9

9. ‘On Correlation of Russian and Buryat Languages in the Republic Buryatia in the Modern Period’, National Language: Regional Aspects. The Anthology of Materials of the Inter-regional scientific-practical conference. – Chita: Izdatelstvo ZabGPU imeni N.G.Chernyshevskogo, 2001. – 183 p. ISBN 5-85158-178-6.

10. ‘Rhetoric of Numbers in the Discourse of the Bild Newspaper’, Language & Speech Units: Inter-universities’ collection of scientific works. – Ulan-Ude: Izdatelstvo Buryatskogo gosuniversiteta, 2000. – 160 p. ISBN 5-85-213-416-3.

11. ‘Strategien im Presse-Diskurs. Exemplarische Analyse des BILD-Diskurses’, Von der Moderne zur Gegenwart. Abhandlungen und Essays zur deutschen Literatur und Landeskunde. Hg.: P.G.Klussman, F.Hoffmann, Institut fuer Deutschlandforschung der Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, 2000.

12. ‘Fictional Text as Literary Discourse: A New Approach to the Text Analysis’, The Bulletin of the Buryat State University. Seriya 6: Philologiya. Vip. 4. - Ulan-Ude: Izdatelstvo Buryatskogo gosuniversiteta 1999.

13. ‘The Problem of the Reflection of Social Reality in Mass Media’, Socio-cultural Activity on the Threshold of the 21st Century: History, Theory, Technologies. Ulan-Ude. Izdatelsko-poligraficheskiy komplex VSGAKI, 1999.

14. ‘Modern Western Conceptions about the (Re)production of Ideology in the Mass Media’, Sbornik nautchnih trudov. Seria: Obchestvenniye nauki, VSGTU. - Ulan-Ude, 1998. - Vip. 4.

15. ‘The Significance of the Intentional Component for Analysis of Speech Strategies in Discourse of the BILD newspaper’, Materials of the I Regional Scientific Seminar on Problems of Language and Speech Systematic. - Irkutsk, IGLU, 1998.

16. ‘Applicability of Discourse Analysis for Study of the Press Language’, Education, Language, Culture at the End of XX and at the beginning of XXI centuries: Materials of International Scientific Conferences (22-25 September 1998). Part II. - Ufa: «Vostochnyi Universitaet», 1998.

17. ‘Ideology of Consensus in the BILD Newspaper’, Materials of the international conference of students and post-graduate students on fundamental sciences "Lomonossov-97" (Philology). M., MGU, 1998.

18. ‘Significance, interpretation and definition of the discourse concept in modern linguistics’, Functional Studies: Articles in Linguistics. M., Moskovskiy Litzey, 1998. - Vip. 6 (Bibliotheka Journala «Russkiy filologicheskiy Vestnik». T. 29).

19. ‘The Concensual Model "Discourse - Reader" (on Materials of the BILD Newspaper)’, The Bulletin of the Buryat State university. Seriya 6: philologiya. Vip. 2. - Ulan-Ude: Izdatelstvo Buryatskogo gosuniversiteta 1998.

20. ‘Discourse of the BILD newspaper as the Object of Linguistic Research’, M., Institut Nauchnoy Informatsii Obshestvennyh Nauk RAN. Deposited 3.12.1997, ? 53105.

21. ‘Construction of Reality in the German Mass Press. Methodological Questions’, Functional Linguistics: Text Pragmatics. Materials of the IV International scientific conference on functional linguistics. - Simferopol, 1997.

Books:

1. Functional Stylistics of the Russian Language. Ulan-Ude: Izdatelsko-poligraficheskiy komplex VSGAKI, 2002.
2. Press Discourse as the Object of Linguistic Research, Ulan-Ude: Izdatelstvo Burjatskogo Gosuniversiteta, 1999. – 132 p. ISBN 5-85213-248-9.
3. The Language Construction of Reality in the German Tabloid Press (on Materials of the Bild Newspaper), VIRTUS, 1998.
 
 

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