Dr Andrey Rosowsky

BA, MA, PGCE, MEd, PhD

School of Education

Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Education

a.rosowsky@Sheffield.ac.uk
The Wave

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Dr Andrey Rosowsky
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
Profile

Andrey is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Education. Before retirement, he spent 11 years as the Director of the full-time MA Programme in Education. Previous to this, he was the Director of Initial Teacher Education. He also supervised and examined doctoral students. Before beginning work at the university in 2005, he served as a consultant for a local authority and taught in a local secondary school. He started his teaching career as a teacher of English Literature at an Egyptian English-medium secondary school, Victoria College, in Alexandria. He continues to be associated with the School of Education through his research and publications.

Research interests

Andrey's principal research interests are in the fields of sociolinguistics, multilingualism and faith- based complementary schooling. His recent work focuses on religious language policy and planning and the relationship between language and meaning. He led an AHRC-funded international research network on performance and faith: Heavenly Acts – aspects of performance through an interdisciplinary lens. His current project (‘ultralingualism’) examines different linguistic contexts and purposes where language is regularly used but the prioritisation of accompanying meaning is either partial or absent.

Publications

Books

  • Rosowsky A (2026) Ultralingualism: The Disassociation of Language from Meaning. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Rosowsky A (2021) The Performance of Multilingual and 'Ultralingual' Devotional Practices by Young British Muslims. Multilingual Matters Limited.
  • Rosowsky A (2008) Heavenly Readings: Liturgical Literacy in a Multilingual Context. Multilingual Matters Ltd.
  • Al-Jazuli AAA & Rosowsky A (2006) Guide to Goodness (Dala'il al-Khayrat) (Complete Arabic-English Texts). Chicago: Kazi Publications.

Edited books

  • (Ed.) (2019) Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings Heavenly Acts. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • (Ed.) (2017) . Multilingual Matters.

Journal articles

  • Rosowsky A (2023) . International Journal of Bilingualism.
  • Rosowsky A (2019) . Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 8(3), 382-407.
  • Rosowsky A (2019) . Linguistics and Education, 53.
  • Rosowsky A (2018) . International Journal of Multilingualism, 15(4), 412-434.
  • Rosowsky A (2017) . Culture and Religion, 19(1), 90-112.
  • Rosowsky A (2017) . Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 38(1), 79-92.
  • Rosowsky A (2013) Religious classical practice: Entextualisation and performance. Language in Society, 307-330.
  • Rosowsky A (2013) . LITERACY, 47(2), 67-78.
  • Rosowsky A (2012) Performance and flow: The religious classical in translocal and transnational linguistic repertoires. Journal of Sociolinguistics.
  • Rosowsky A (2011) . International Journal of Sociology of Language, 135-148.
  • Rosowsky A (2010) . J MULTILING MULTICUL, 31(2), 163-179.
  • Rosowsky A (2009) . ENGL EDUC-UK, 43(2), 178-181.
  • Rosowsky A (2008) . Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 16(2), 213-219.
  • Rosowsky A (2007) Qur´anic Literacy: its central role in the life of UK Muslim Communities. NALDIC Quarterly, 5(2), 44-44.
  • Rosowsky A (2006) . Language and Education, 20(6), 529-542.
  • Rosowsky A (2006) . Literacy, 40(2), 79-87.
  • Rosowsky A (2005) . English in Education, 39(3), 32-46.
  • Rosowsky A (2001) . Language and Education, 15(1), 56-70.
  • Rosowsky A (2000) . English in Education, 34(2), 45-53.

Book chapters

  • Rosowsky A (2025) The Study of Religious Language Policy and Management In Benati AG (Ed.), Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics Research Issues and Methods Bloomsbury Academic
  • Rosowsky A (2023) , The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion (pp. 420-432). Routledge
  • Rosowsky A (2021) , Analysing Religious Discourse (pp. 162-178). Cambridge University Press
  • Rosowsky A (2019) In Pandharipande RV, David MK & Eisenstein Ebsworth M (Ed.), Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion (pp. 33-50). Multilingual Matters
  • Rosowsky A (2019) A Challenge to Monolingualism: The Performance of Multilingual Devotional Poetry and Song among Young British Muslims In Rosowsky A (Ed.), Heavenly Acts: Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings (pp. 168-185). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Rosowsky A (2018) Virtual Allegiance: Online 'Ba`yah' Practices within a Worldwide Sufi Order In Rosowsky A (Ed.), Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces (pp. 209-233). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
  • Rosowsky A (2017) Muslim youth identities through devotional songs and poetry in South Yorkshire communities In Stevens D & Lockney K (Ed.), Students, Places and Identities in English and the Arts London: Taylor and Francis.
  • Rosowsky A (2016) Heavenly Entextualisations: the acquisition and performance of classical religious texts In Lytra V, Volk D & Gregory E (Ed.), Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities: Religion in Young Lives
  • Rosowsky A (2015) Heavenly Verses: the Role of Devotional Song in Minority Language Maintenance In Ostler N & Lintinger BW (Ed.), The Music of Endangered Languages (pp. 92-99). Hungerford: Foundation for Endangered Languages.
  • Rosowsky A (2015) , Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies (pp. 169-182).
  • Rosowsky A (2015) Heavenly Words: Researching Reading in Religious Settings In Wellington J (Ed.), Educational Research (pp. 125-130). London: Bloomsbury.
  • Rosowsky A (2013) Poetry, Culture and Identity In Dymoke S, Lambirth A & Wilson A (Ed.), Making Poetry Matter (pp. 180-183). London: Bloomsbury.
  • Rosowsky A (2013) Commentary: Poetry, Culture and Identity, Making Poetry Matter International Research on Poetry Pedagogy (pp. 180-183).
  • Rosowsky A (2008) Muslim, English, or Pakistani? Multilingual identities in minority ethno-religious communities In Martinez P, Moore M & Spaeth V (Ed.), Plurilinguismes et enseignement - Identités en construction Paris: Riveneuve.
  • Rosowsky A (2006) The role of liturgical literacy in UK Muslim communities, EXPLORATIONS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND RELIGION (pp. 309-324).

Theses

  • Bramley R (2021) In Their Own Image: Voluntary Filmmaking at a Non-Profit Community Media Organisation.
Research group

Literacies and Language research cluster