Khatira Badraddin qizi Bashirli (Azerbaijani: Xatirə Bədrəddin qızı Bəşirli; 5 January 1958) is a doctor of philology, professor,[1] assistant director of science of the National Museum of Azerbaijani Literature named after Nizami Ganjavi of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, chairman of the first regional organization “The museologist” of New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) of Sabail region.
Khatira Bashirli was born in January 1958 in Agdash and she graduated from Azerbaijan State University (now BSU).
She is now the assistant director on science of National Museum of Azerbaijani Literature named after Nizami Ganjavi of Azerbaijan National Academy of the Sciences.
Got the theoretical results from the point of research of the mutual connection of Azerbaijani prose and folklore, the form of the expression of folklorism in prose, the place of the genre of folklore in the organization of the written text and the history of the epos of the Turkic peoples, the likeness of the heroic eposes from the genetic point of view, the root unity, the architectonics of dastan.
Defended PhD thesis on the topic “Poetics (genesis and artistic system) of the epos “Keroglu”, DPhil thesis on the topic “Azerbaijani prose and folklore at the beginning of the 20th century”.