Research activities

Research Schools and Scientific Fields at the Faculty of Humanities:

• Comparative and metacomparative studies; 
• Literature and intercultural communication;
• Poetics, commentary, interpretation;
• Semantics and paradigmatics of the poetic text; 
• Cognitive methodology of linguistic research;
• Experimental phonetics computer research of speech;
• Political linguistics;
• Neurolinguistics;
• Sociololinguistics, linguistic gender studies, and contact variantology of the English language.

Scientific and Practical Activities of the Students 

Bachelor’s and master’s students take an active part in the work of the scientific schools of the faculty. Under the guidance of their supervisors, they take part in scientific research seminars, write their course papers and graduate research works, prepare papers for conferences and scientific journals. 

In 2021 the students and teachers of the program “Philology” founded an educative portal “Staircase” participating in which helps to develop scientific and pedagogical skills. They created a literary guide to Nizhny Novgorod in 2022.

As a result of the activities of the neurolinguistic club at the faculty, a group of enthusiastic linguistic students has been formed assisting in neurolinguistic researches, working on scientific projects on neurolinguistic topics and regularly participating in the Summer and Winter Schools of Neurolinguistics at Higher School of Economics in Moscow. The participation of students (Higher School of Economics in Nizhny Novgorod) in the research process made it possible to update the topics of course and diploma projects, increase the motivation of young people and satisfy the demand for the social relevance of scientific research. The involvement of students from HSE University – Nizhny Novgorod in research activities has made it possible to update the topics of term papers and graduation theses, increase students’ motivation, and address the demand for the social relevance of academic research. Students enrolled in the Fundamental and Applied Linguistics degree programme have the opportunity to write term papers on neurolinguistic topics.

In 2026, three interdisciplinary research and educational groups were launched at the Faculty:

• “Cognitive Science Terminology in 21st-Century Russian Media: A Discursive Reference Dictionary” (supervisor: Tatyana Romanova);

• “Intercultural Communication Practices in Postal Correspondence (Based on Russian and German Postcards from the ‘Pishu tebe’ Corpus)” (supervisor: Ekaterina Fomina);

• “Speech, Facial Expressions, and Gestures Cannot Lie: Assessing the Veracity of Information Using Psycholinguistic Methods” (supervisor: Anna Khomenko).