The mission of the Department of English Language and Literature is to instill in our students a deep appreciation for language and its application to the needs of society. We seek to provide the foundational skills, attitudes, and knowledge necessary for students to make meaningful contributions in the fields of English language teaching, linguistics, translation, and literary studies.
As part of its mission, the Department of English Language and Literature administers the English language requirements of Khazar University as a whole. Khazar University is an English-medium institute of higher learning, and we take with the utmost seriousness our responsibility to prepare students to perform with excellence throughout this Anglophone setting.
The Department of English Language and Literature prides itself on specialized education for non-native speakers of English. However, we collaborate with native speakers of English on instruction and serve native speakers of English as students. Our ultimate goals are the creation and the maintenance of an academically rich environment in which all students of English, be they native or non-native, can make substantial strides in their command of all four domains of English: speaking; listening; reading; and writing.
Offerings are not limited to the undergraduate level. The Department of English Language and Literature's graduate programs permit advanced study in the disciplines of translation, general and applied linguistics, and literary studies. These graduate courses have a dual directive: to promote academic research in relevant disciplines and, as always, to engineer academic growth in students.
Head of the department
PhD in Germanic Languages ( Khazar University, Azerbaijan)
Milana Abbasova is currently head of the Department of English Language and Literature. She earned both her B.A. (2002) and M.A. (2004) degrees at the Azerbaijan University of Languages. She got her Ph.D. degree in Germanic languages (with a concentration on philology) at Khazar University in 2022. She has been working at Khazar University since 2006. She teaches language policy and planning; history of the English language; and sociolinguistics, among other subjects. She acted as a program and research coordinator of the Department of English Language and Literature from 2015 to 2019. Moreover, she has been working as an assistant editor at the Dictionary and Encyclopedia Centre since 2018.
Office: Neftchilar Campus 313 (old)
Phone: (+994 12) 421 79 16 (281)
E-mail: mabbasova@khazar.org
Research Coordinator
Ph.D. in Linguistics (McGill University, Canada)
Alan Libert did his B.A. in classical Languages (Latin and Ancient Greek) at New York University and his Ph.D. in linguistics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. From 1994 to 2023, at the University of Newcastle in Australia, he lectured and taught courses about theoretical linguistics (phonetics and semantics/pragmatics) and translation. Furthermore, he was the head of the university's German program for several years. He also has academic writing teaching experience to his credit. For over 15 years, he was the reviews editor of the Australian Journal of Linguistics. He has written books on artificial languages and on different parts of speech; he has also written papers on pragmatics, onomastics, and Turkic languages. In 2023, he was appointed as an adjunct professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Khazar University.
E-mail: alan.libert@newcastle.edu.au
Foundations Test Coordinator
Jala Huseynova completed both of her degrees at the Azerbaijan University of Languages: a B.A. in 2006 in philology and an M.A. in 2008 in linguistics. She has been working at Khazar University since 2009. Her teaching credits at the university include academic English, academic language skills, English composition, and academic writing. On top of her teaching duties, she has also been working the Foundations Test Coordinator since 2021.
E-mail: jhuseynova@khazar.org
Assistant
Nargiz Novruzlu earned a B.A in English teaching at Azerbaijan University of Languages (2022) and an M.A in translation at Khazar University (2024). She has been working at Khazar University since September of 2024. Nargiz Novruzlu also teaches courses in general English.
E-mail: nnovruzlu@khazar.org
Office: Neftchilar Campus 313(O)
Assistant
Aybeniz Rasulova completed her bachelor's degree in English language teaching at the Azerbaijan University of Languages. In 2020, she worked on translating art-related articles from English to Azerbaijani at the Azerbaijan Khan Academy. Later, she worked as an intern editor at Libra Publishing House and was involved in proofreading several books. Most recently, she worked as a manager at a study abroad agency. Since October 2024, she has been working as an assistant at Khazar University.
E-mail: arasulova@khazar.org
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