About & Career

Shakhnoza Rakhimova, PhD, is an educator and researcher working at the intersection of literary translation, cultural meaning, and artificial intelligence. Her research context is English–Uzbek translation, with particular attention to how a translated text carries the voice, imagery, and cultural references of a literary work into another language.

Her interests include comparative poetics—the study of how literary expression works across traditions—as well as metaphor and literary style. These areas provide a way to consider translation beyond the correspondence of individual words. They bring questions of interpretation, tone, and cultural context into the discussion of human and AI translation practices.

She has completed a PhD and is currently pursuing DSc research titled “A Transcultural-Contrastive Study of Artificial Intelligence and Translatorial Practice in English–Uzbek Literary Translation.” This ongoing project places literary translation at the centre of her academic profile. Its title brings cultural interpretation and comparison between languages into a shared frame.

Previously supplied article materials identify her as Senior Teacher, PhD, in the Department of Methodology of Teaching English, Faculty of the English Language, Uzbekistan State World Languages University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Her related educational interests include AI translation tools, EFL writing—writing in English as a foreign language—and learner autonomy. A paper on AI translation tools, writing performance, and learner autonomy was accepted for ICARLL 2026. That acceptance is recorded separately from published scholarship.

Senior Teacher, PhD

Department of Methodology of Teaching English
Faculty of the English Language
Uzbekistan State World Languages University
Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Designation and affiliation as recorded in supplied article materials.