Visiting Scholars

Dr. Timur Mukhamatulin, Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor (Sep 2024 – May 2025)

Timur Mukhamatulin received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2023. He is a co-author of the book Sovetskii Sport v Kontekstakh Holodnoi Voiny [Soviet Sports in Cold War Context], published in Russian in 2023.

His research interests focus on the histories of Soviet sports, Soviet gender order, and Soviet subjectivity. His dissertation covers the history of Soviet women’s gymnastics. He is currently working on turning his dissertation into a book.

Dr. Yong Qin - Visiting Professor; yqin15@ualberta.ca (July-December 2024)

Dr. Yong Qin is Chinese and achieved his Ph.D. degree in Applied Language Sciences from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He now holds a standing faculty position in the Department of English, Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University. Dr. Qin's research areas cover SFL, CDA, CL, Media and Communication, multimodality, and SLA. He published textbooks, journal articles, and monographs and also hosts research projects. Dr. Qin holds an executive council membership with IAHL (International Association for Hallidayan Linguistics). Under the guidance of Professor Odile Cisneros, Dr. Qin is currently performing his research plan “The Nature of Erosion and Its Effect on the Syntactic Iconicity of the –ing Clause”.