On December 4–5, 2025, our department’s instructors, Yusupova Ziynatjon Djumanazarovna and Atamuradov Dilshod Olimboyevich, successfully defended their dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Philological Sciences. Their dissertations were completed in the specialties 10.00.06 – Comparative Literary Studies, Comparative Linguistics, and Translation Studies (“Representation of Nonverbal Communicative Means in Literary Translation: Based on Uzbek-to-English Translations”) and 13.00.01 – Theory of Pedagogy, History of Pedagogical Doctrines (“Mechanisms for Preparing Future Teachers to Foster Interethnic Communication Culture among Students”), respectively.