Zoya G. Proshina, Doctor of Philology (Habil.), is a Professor at the Moscow State University. Her research interests include World Englishes, sociolinguistics, translation studies and intercultural communication. She was guest-editor of a special issue of the World Englishes journal on Russian Englishes and has contributed to the Routledge Handbook of World Englishes, English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education, and Communicating with Asia (Cambridge, 2016). She is the sole author of Crossroads: English-Russian Dictionary of East Asian Culture Contacts (2004), The ABC and Controversies of World Englishes (2007), and Theory of Translation: English–Russian, Russian–English (2008). She is co-editor of the forthcoming Handbook of World Englishes. In 2011–12 she was President of the International Association for World Englishes.