Biographical note

Professor Olga Karpova, Doctor of Philology, is Vice-Rector for PR and Head of the English Department at Ivanovo State University, Russia (www.ivanovo.ac.ru), and Head of Lexicology and Lexicography, Section of the Russian Association of Applied Linguistics (www.nopril.ru). She has published 350 papers and 10 books on English lexicography, with special reference to English Learners, Author and Shakespeare Dictionaries. She has organized eight International Schools on Lexicography, supervised 22 PhD students working on their theses (on English LSP, historical, learner’s, author lexicography and work today in Russia— Ivanovo, Moscow, Yaroslavl Universities, and at foreign Universities in the USA, Italy, the UK, etc.).Olga Karpova delivers special courses on English Authors Dictionaries (xvi–xxi cc.), English Historical Lexicography and Cyber-lexicography, and Electronic Dictionaries for students of senior courses of the English Department.Prof. Karpova is a member of EURALEX with two Verbatim Awards (1993, 1997), the Historical Lexicography Society (UK), and the Russian Association of Applied Linguistics. She has completed two theses on English Writers Dictionaries (1978) and Shakespeare Lexicography (1991) at Leningrad University; worked at lexicographic centers in England (grant from the British Academy) and Norway (Norwegian Research Council); and given presentations on lexicography at international conferences in Russia, Finland, Italy, Denmark, and Canada. She has won awards from the Russian Ministry of Education, the Eugene Wüster Award from UNESCO, and the title “Woman of the Year 2010” from the local Government for advanced research and education in Russia.