SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Direction:Anglistics
Position:Associate Professor





Nino Guliashvili completed a full Bachelor’s academic course at Tbilisi Ilia Chavchavadze State University of Language and Culture in 2004 majoring in Pedagogy of English Language. In 2006 she was awarded a Master’s Degree with honors by Ilia Chavchavadze State University, the faculty of Philology of Foreign Languages specializing in Theory and Practice of English Language Teaching. Funded by TEMPUS program in 2011, she was a visiting doctoral researcher at University of Glasgow designing the doctoral thesis and scientific research under expert co-supervision. In 2018 she defended the doctoral dissertation – “Representation of Gender Identity in Media Discourse (Based on the local English-Language Newspaper Coverage of 2008 Russo-Georgian War)” and was conferred the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Philology by Ilia State University, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

In 2007-2021 Nino Guliashvili worked at Ilia State University as an invited lecturer of English Language and the Team Leader at the faculty of Arts and Sciences, Bachelor’s level. Since 2008 she has been an invited specialist/assessor of applicants’ essays and teachers’ speaking skill at the National Assessment and Examinations Center. In 2019-2021 she worked as an invited lecturer at Caucasus University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences to deliver the following courses at Bachelor’s level:  Academic English for Psychologists and Academic English for Philologists.

Scientific interests / research interests

  • Sociolinguistics, representation of gender identity in discourse, (critical) discourse studies, language and ideologies, media discourse, linguistic analysis of political discourse.
  • Cognitive linguistics, cognitive metaphors, psycholinguistic aspects of bilingualism.
  • Incorporation of corpus linguistic methods in qualitative and quantitative linguistic studies (Software: Lancs Box, Antconc; online English Language corpora – English Corpora & BNC – British National Corpus)

Journal Articles

Books

  • Mosiashvili, T, Janashia, S, Gabrichidze,N, Zhvania, N, Pruidze, N, Tatishvili, E, and Nino Guliashvili. 2011.  Academic Style of Ilia State University: Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ed. Nino Chubinidze, Tbilisi (in Georgian with an English Abstract).

Current Courses

Course Catalog

Great Britain – History and Culture; Media Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Psycholinguistics: Theory and Practice

United States of America – History and Culture; Theory of English Language Grammar; Language and Gender –from Theory to Method; Linguistic Aspects of Political Discourse

Doctoral Studies

  • Publication Writing (2011-2013, Autumn Semester)