Ter-Minasova Svetlana Grigorievna

Professor Svetlana Ter-Minasova (PhD) is Dean and founder of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University since 1988, founding President of National Association of Applied Linguistics since 1990, and the President of National Association of Teachers of English in Russia since its foundation in 1996.

She was awarded various prestigious orders and medals by the Russian Government and the Russian Orthodox Church. She lectured across the USSR, Russia and many other countries, and was conferred the honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters from the University of Birmingham (UK), Doctor of Humane Letters from the State University of New-York (USA), and Honorary professor of Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University.

She has published more than 160 books and papers both in Russian and English on Foreign Language Teaching, Linguistics and Cultural Studies.