Ilshat Sharafutdinov

Dr. Ilshat Sharafutdinov serves as a Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies within the Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Cultures at the University of Regensburg. His academic profile integrates teaching responsibilities with research in sociolinguistics, linguistic landscapes, language policy, and English language pedagogy. He maintains active membership in the International Society for the Linguistics of English and collaborates with the university's Research Center for World Englishes.

His research centers on multilingual urban environments, examining how English functions within linguistic landscapes and public signage systems. This work intersects with sociophonetic analysis of non-native accents, second-language acquisition processes, and language policy implementation. His scholarship, exemplified by the 2018 Kazan linguistic landscape study, reveals patterns of English dominance in post-Soviet contexts while documenting complex language hierarchies in multilingual societies.

For Winter Semester 2024/2025, Dr. Sharafutdinov teaches nine courses spanning core linguistics domains: Academic Writing B.A., Phonemic Transcription, Introduction to Statistics for Linguists, Sociophonetics, Syntax, Russian English, Research Methods for Variation in English, Text Analysis, and Linguistics Paper Writing Tutorium. This diverse portfolio demonstrates expertise across theoretical linguistics, sociolinguistic methods, and language teaching applications.

He maintains regular office hours in room PT 3.2.79 during academic terms and collaborates with the Research Center for World Englishes, which investigates English language variation across global contexts through comparative and empirical approaches.