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Viktoriia Zarva
Position
Professor at the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature and Comparative Literary Criticism
Е-mail
va_zarva@bdpu.org.ua / zarva@bigmir.net
Awards
- Certificate of Honour from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (2004);
- Badge of Honour ‘Distinguished Educator of Ukraine’ (2005);
- Certificate of Honour from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2008);
- Honorary title ‘Honoured Educator of Ukraine’ (2009);
- Certificate of Honour from the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (2012);
- Note of Commendation from the Head of the Committee on Budget Questions of the Verkhovna Rada (2012).
Education
1977 – Donetsk State University, programme subject area: ‘Russian language and literature;
1997 – P. D. Osypenko State Pedagogical Institute of Berdiansk, programme subject area: ‘Ukrainian language and literature’.
Academic degrees and academic titles
1985 – PhD in Philology, speciality 10.01.01 – Russian literature, 10.01.02 – Ukrainian literature. Thesis title: M. S. Lieskov’s Oeuvre in the Aspect of Literary Interconnections between Russia and Ukraine;
1988 – Associate Professor in the Department of the Russian Language and Literature at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University;
2006 – Doctor of Philology, speciality 10.01.05 – Comparative literary criticism. Thesis title: Educational Trends in Russian and Ukrainian Prose of the 60–80s of the 19th Century;
2007 – Professor in the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University.
Work experience
1977–1978 – teacher of Russian Language and Literature at secondary school No. 1, organizer of extracurricular and out-of-school educational work at secondary school No. 9 in the city of Berdiansk;
1978–1983 – associate lecturer in the Department of Russian, Ukrainian Language and Literature at P. D. Osypenko State Pedagogical Institute of Berdiansk;
1983–1984 – Senior Lecturer at the Department of Russian, Ukrainian Languages and Literature;
1986–1989 – Head of the Department of Russian Language and Literature at P. D. Osypenko State Pedagogical Institute of Berdiansk;
1992–1997 – Head of the Department of General Linguistics and Slavic Philology;
1997–2001, 2005 – Head of the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature;
2006–2010 – Director of the Institute of Philology (later – the Institute of Philology and Social Communications) at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University;
September 27, 2010–2011 – acting Rector of Berdyansk State Pedagogical University;
March 23, 2011 – March 23, 2016 – Rector of Berdyansk State Pedagogical University;
2016–2018 – Head of the Department of Foreign Literature and Literary Theory at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University;
2018 – present – Professor in the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature and Comparative Literary Criticism at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University.
Field of scientific interests
- Comparative literary criticism;
- methodological paradigm of comparative literary criticism;
- educational trends in Ukrainian and foreign literature;
- interconnections of foreign writers with Ukraine, etc.
Grants
- February 4–8, 2014 – participation in the first conference of consortium of higher education institutions of Germany, Austria, Italy, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Finland within the framework of realization of TEMPUS-IV European programme ‘Training educators and educational managers at a higher education institution and professional development centres to work with heterogeneous groups and organizations’, Hildesheim, Germany.
Public activity
- 2011 – establishment and registration in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine of Universytetske Slovo student newspaper (editor S. Heryliv, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University) and organization of its work.
- 2013 – initiator of the first summer scientific school of ‘Comparative studios in comparative literary criticism: imagology aspect’ at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University with participation of scientists from T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Expert activity
- Participation in the Expert Council for Expert Examination of PhD Theses in Philology and Social Communications as the deputy head (order No. 78 of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine of 27 January 2014).
Advanced training, internships for the last 5 years
- Participation in ‘From hypothesis to a published work: a complex approach to scientific research’ training in teaching skills at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University (certificate No. АD86/2024).
Main academic disciplines
- Literary Theory;
- Analysis of Works of Literature in Foreign Literature Lessons;
- Methodology of Philological Scientific Research (Literary Criticism).
Other, which additionally highlights the activity of the lecturer
- 2012 – member of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP);
- 2010 – member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine;
- 2009 – full member (academician) of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences;
- 2014 – member of the International Association of Comparative Literature Scholars, and member of the International Academy of Education Humanization;
- Executive editor of the inter-university collection of scientific articles Topical Issues of Foreign Philology: Linguistics and Literary Criticism (in collaboration with Zaporizhzhia National University; certificate of state registration of a printed media: series KB No. 12514-1398 P, issued by the Ministry of Justice on 27.04.2007). The collection was included in the list of scientific publications authorized by the Supreme Certifying Commission of Ukraine (Bulletin of the Supreme Certifying Commission of Ukraine, 2008, No. 8, p. 21);
- 2010 – executive editor of the Proceedings of Berdyansk State Pedagogical University;
- Member of the editorial board of Kremenets Comparative Studies, philological scientific periodical;
- 1999 – member of the editorial board of Kyiv Polonistic Studies, collection of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv;
- Member of the editorial board of Southern Archive (Philological Sciences) journal (Kherson, Kherson State University, Category “B”), the editorial board of Philological Treatises journal (Sumy, Sumy State University, Category “B”), and others;
- Founder and organizer of annual international conferences that were held by the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature at BSPU, such as Gender Power: Literary and Cultural Strategies (2003), Topical Issues in Modern Comparative Studies (2006), Mass Literature: from Antiquity to the Present (2007), Literature for and about Children: History, Modernity and Prospects (2008) etc;
- 2015–2021 – acting Head of the Specialized Academic Council K 18.092.02 for the defence of PhD theses (specialties: 10.01.05 – Comparative literary criticism; 10.01.01 – Ukrainian Literature) at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, where 40 theses were defended;
- 2008–2021 – member of the Specialized Academic Council Д 26.001.39 for the defence of doctoral (PhD) theses (specialties: 10.01.03 – Literature of Slavic Peoples; 10.01.04 – Literature of foreign countries; 10.01.02 – Russian literature) at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv;
- 2008–2014 – member of the Specialized Academic Council K 08.051.12 at Dnipropetrovsk National University;
- Supervisor of successfully defended postdoctoral theses in the speciality 10.01.05 – Comparative literary criticism (Nikolova O.O., 2018; Chyk D. Ch., 2018; Devdiuk I. V., 2020); PhD theses (Bohdanova O. I., 2015; Davydenko I. O., 2016; Vasylieva A. M., 2017); in the speciality 10.01.02 – Russian literature (Volik N. A., 2019);
- Repeated official opponent for theses.