Natalia Gvishiani

Natalia Gvishiani is a Russian linguist, professor, scholar and academic. She totals more than 110 publications on Terminology and Philology. In 2010, Moscow State University made her a Distinguished professor.

Professional and literary life Natalia Gvishiani was born on 29 June 1949, in Moscow, Russian Federation where she ultimately graduated from high school with a silver medal. After high school, she went on to study at the Moscow State University with a major in German Studies, followed by some brief work at the State Committee for Television and Radio. Since 1972, she has been working at the Department of English, Linguistics, Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. She has occupied the position of lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor, and now professor since 1988. She defended her first thesis on Multifunctional word as the subject of grammar and phraseology and later on her doctoral thesis 'categories and concepts of linguistics as a subject of methodological research' in the field of 'General Linguistics' and 'German philology'. She then took fellowships at the University of Buffalo New York (USA) under P.Gavin and then in 1979 and 1986 at the University Of London (UCL) under S.Quirke.

She is also the first president and founder of the International Linguistics Association of Teachers of English Language (LATEUM). From 1973 to 1998, she participated on a yearly basis, to the IATEFL conferences and is, as of 1997, a member of the International Association of Linguists focused on the research on computerized archives of the English language. In 2008, she was awarded a medal by the International Federation Association of Current Languages (FIPLV) for her contribution to international cooperation. She has been a member of the Board of the Edinbrough-based international journal Corpora. She has also participated in the creation of the ICLE textbook for English as a foreign language. On 20 December 2010, by decision of the Academic Council, Gvishiani was made a 'Distinguished professor of the University of Moscow'.