Vera Sibirtseva
- Associate Professor: HSE Campus in Nizhny Novgorod / Faculty of Humanities / School of Foreign Languages and Professional Communication
- Vera Sibirtseva has been at HSE University since 2003.
Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
2009
Associate Professor1999
DegreeN.A. Dobrolyubov Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University
* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Awards and Accomplishments
- Best Teacher — 2024, 2019
- Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2012–2013)
Courses (2026/2027)
- German (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- German (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Key Texts of German-Language Literatures. Creative Writing and Interpretation (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2025/2026)
- Culture Codes and Their Linguistic Manifestation (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Linguistics; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- German (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Key Texts of the German-Language Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2024/2025)
- Academic Writing (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- History, Culture and Literature of French-speaking, German-speaking and Spanish-speaking Countries (Bachelor field of study Linguistics; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Key Texts of the German-Language Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Speech culture of the second language (German Language) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Linguistics; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2023/2024)
- Academic Writing (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Culture and Business Communication in German-language Countries (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Linguistics; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Key Texts of the German-Language Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research seminar "Woman in the culture of Europe of the XX century" (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1-3 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- German (basic) (Master’s programme; Faculty of Management (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Management; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- German (basic) (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Key Texts of the German-Language Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 4 year, 2 module)Rus
- Practical Course of the Second Foreign Language (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Linguistics; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Key Texts of the German-Language Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 4 year, 2 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (German) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Conferences
- 2018
Конференция Российского союза германистов, XVII Съезд РСГ (Москва). Presentation: Пунктуация и визуальное оформление в поэзии: оригинал и перевод
- 2013
Метакомпаративистика в контексте гуманитарного знания: междисциплинарные связи (Нижний Новгород, НИУ ВШЭ). Presentation: Компьютерные инструменты для сопоставительного лингвистического анализа
„Od języka do kultury, literatury, sztuki i mediów – w kierunku edukacji międzyprzedmiotowej” (Кротошин). Presentation: Erste Kontakte. Fremde kennen lernen – Freunde werden
7
Sep
2026
‘Speech, Facial Expressions, and Gestures Cannot Lie’
Would you like to know whether a speaker’s trembling voice or an accidental gesture can give them away? At HSE University in Nizhny Novgorod, researchers are developing an algorithm that analyses speech, facial expressions, and gestures, and determines whether information is truthful with 92% accuracy. The project has applications ranging from forensic examination and bank recruitment to fundamental research. Anna Khomenko, head of the research group and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Language and Brain at the HSE Faculty of Humanities in Nizhny Novgorod, explains how students and researchers are working together to create a corpus of video recordings, train a classifier, and prepare to introduce computer vision technology.