Zhanar Abdigapbarova is an assistant professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nazarbayev University. Zhanar is a graduate of the Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi, majoring in Kazakh language and literature.
Zhanar Abdigapbarova received her PhD in Kazakh Literature from the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in 2010. Prior to coming to Nazarbayev University in 2012, Zhanar worked as an assistant professor in Kazakh Literature Department, International Kazakh-Turkish University named after K.A.Yassawi within 2004 - 2012. Her research interests include problems of Kazakh literature at the early twentieth century and problems of historical and religious poems of Kazakh literature.