Lara Ryazanova-Clarke

• MA (Hons), PhD, FCIL, 
• Academic Director of the  Princess Dashkova Russian Centre
• Senior Lecturer and Head of Russian at DELC, University of Edinburgh
• Editor, Russian Language and Society book series

Dr Lara Ryazanova-Clarke's scholarship is in broadly defined socio-cultural language studies in its relation to Russian. This includes

• sociolinguistics
• critical discourse studies
• linguistic anthropology
• literary poetics
• history of linguistic ideas
• Russian language and globalisation
• linguistic violence

She is particularly interested in post-Soviet subjectivity as reflected, constructed and performed in discourse, in the construction of Russian national identity and in application of theories of post-colonialism, globalism and cosmopolitanism to the post-Soviet phenomenon of global Russian.

She welcomes postgraduate applications in the listed, similar and interdisciplinary fields.

Research activity

For a number of years, she has been a Fellow of Institute of Linguists and an international reviewer for the Shota Rustaveli National Foundation for Humanities of Georgia. She is a member of the Presidium of the International Association for Russian Language and Literature (MAPRYAL) - an international Russian language and literature teaching strategy think tank (2014-to date). She is Leader of the Language and Violence DELC Research stream.

Currently, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is PI of an AHRC-funded OWRI project 'Global Russians': Transnational Russophone Networks in the UK (2016-2020). Her other ongoing and recent research projects include:

1) The Global Russian: International travel as cultural and linguistic practices (funded by AHRC), 2015-2016.

2) A discursive turn to violence in Putin's Russia.

Dr Ryazanova-Clarke's international collaborations include her participation in two international projects: ‘The Landslide of the Norm: Linguistic liberalization and literary development in Russia in the 1920s and 1990; and ‘The Future of Russian: Language Culture in the New Technology Era’, 2005-2012, both funded by the Arts Council of Norway.

• MSc Res in Russian
• Russian Language Society: from Proper Use to Propaganda (Russian Studies 4 Hons option course)
• Russian Culture lecture course
• Russian Studies 4 Hons Prose 
• Russian Studies 4 Hons Writing in Style
• Russian Studies 4 Hons Text Analysis