Anastasiia Petrenko

Research interests: The ways of time conceptualisation in different languages

Supervised by: Prof Kasia M. Jaszczolt

Anastasiia completed her BA in Translation Theory and Cross-Linguistic Communication at Saint Petersburg State University (2016-2020). She was granted her MA degree in Simultaneous Translation by Saint Petersburg State University in 2022. She was an Erasmus+ exchange student at the University of Birmingham pursuing MA studies in Applied Linguistics in September 2021 – January 2022. She is an Honorary Member of the Student Scientific Society at Saint Petersburg State University (2016 – present). She has been a host and co-organiser of the Semantics, Pragmatics and Philosophy Research Group meetings (2023 – present). She is currently an Academic Representative for the MMLL Department (2023-2024).

Scholarships and Prizes:

• 2024 - The medal award for winning the International Olympiad ‘High League 2024’ in Linguistics
• 2023 – The winner of the International Olympiad ‘High League 2023’ in Language Teaching
• 2022 – The winner of the Cambridge Trust Full Scholarship
• 2022 – The medal award for winning the International Olympiad ‘High League 2022’ in Linguistics
• 2022 – The winner of the International Olympiad ‘I – Professional’ in Linguistics
• 2021 – The winner of the International Research Competition ‘Petropolitan Science (Re) Search’ in Linguistics
• 2021 – The winner of Erasmus+ scholarship
• 2020 – The winner of the International Research Competition ‘Petropolitan Science (Re) Search’ in Linguistics
• 2020-2022 – The winner of a full scholarship granted by Saint Petersburg State University
• 2020-2022 – The winner of The Saint Petersburg State University’s Scholarship for high academic results
• 2019 – The winner of the International Research Competition ‘Petropolitan Science (Re) Search’ in Linguistics
• 2019 – The winner of the Olympiad ‘The languages and culture of French and English’
• 2019-2020 – The winner of The Saint Petersburg State University’s Scholarship for high academic results
• 2016-2020 – The winner of a full scholarship granted by Saint Petersburg University
• 2016 – The winner of the Avon Global Scholarship Programme

Publications:

• In print – In Search of Russian Seichas (‘Now’) in COPiL, the University of Cambridge
• 2023 – Lexical and grammatical characteristics of Internet discourse (A case study of study blogs) in Student – Researcher – Teacher – 2021, Herzen University
• 2020 – The syntax of comments in Internet discourse (A case study of fashion blogs) in Naukasfera
• 2020 – Morphological characteristics of comments in textual fashion blogs in International Practical Conference ‘Student Research’
• 2019 – ‘Challenge’ as a translation problem in The Collection of the Materials of the All-Russia Conference ‘ScienceDviz’

Conference Papers:

• Upcoming – The concept of NOW in Russian: what is wrong with it and how to fix it? (2024 Cambridge Interdisciplinary Forum for Postgraduate Research, the University of Cambridge)
• 2024 – Conceptual Engineering: fixing the concept of NOW in Russian (The workshop ‘Abstract concepts, perception, and language: what we think and how we say it’, the University of Cambridge)
• 2024 – The conceptualization of the present tense in the Russian language (A case study of seichas (‘now’)) (Lomonosov Forum 2024, Moscow State University)
• 2024 – Now as a translation problem (XXVII Open Conference for Philology students, Saint Petersburg State University)
• 2023 – The extended present and its metaphysical foundations: the case of Russian seichas (‘now’) (The workshop ‘Whose view is it? From cognitive to philosophical approaches to perspective-taking’, the University of Cambridge)
• 2023 – The correlation between word associations and encyclopaedic knowledge in learning English as the second language (LELPGC 2023, the University of Edinburgh)
• 2023 – Grammar devices in achieving perlocutionary effect in English portrait interviews in fashion industry (XXVI Open Conference for Philology students, Saint Petersburg State University)

Information about other years is available on request.