Anastassia Zabrodskaja, Professor

Anastassia Zabrodskaja is Professor of Intercultural Communication and Head of the Communication Management Master’s programme at Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (Tallinn, Estonia). She is Executive Director of the European Master’s in Intercultural Communication programme. Her primary research interests are identity, language contacts and linguistic landscapes. She teaches courses focusing on intercultural communication. Professor Anastassia Zabrodskaja is a Regional Representative (Europe) on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. Professor Zabrodskaja serves as vice chair in the International and Intercultural Communication section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Anastassia Zabrodskaja is an expert in the social psychology of language. She has been involved in research projects on the development of the Estonian linguistic environment, bilingual speech and aspects of ethnolinguistic vitality, where her roles as a (main) project investigator have included scientific research to analyse language dynamics and change in Estonia. Her research has focused on identity dynamics and declared language behaviour and language ideologies among both ethnolinguistically mixed and ethnolinguistically monolingual families in Estonia in order to understand intergenerational language transmission processes. She explores the acculturation experience of international students in Estonia. She is experienced in using qualitative methods in the field of sociolinguistics and intercultural communication.