Olha Kharlan

1987 – Chernivtsi State Pedagogical University, qualification: philologist, teacher of Ukrainian Language and Literature.

1997 – PhD in Philology, speciality 10.01.01 – Ukrainian literature. Thesis title: Katria Hrynevycheva’s Oeuvre in the Context of the Western Ukrainian Literature of the First Half of the 20th Century;
2001 – Associate Professor in the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University;
2009 – Doctor of Philology, speciality – 10.01.05 – comparative literary criticism. Thesis title: Models of Catastrophism in the Ukrainian and Polish Prose of the Interwar Decade;
2011 – Professor in the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature and Comparative Literary Criticism at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University.

1987–1990 – teacher of Ukrainian Language and Literature at comprehensive school No. 4 of the city of Berdiansk;
1990 – Berdyansk State Pedagogical University:
1990–1991 – associate lecturer at the Department of Ukrainian Language and Literature;
1991–1994 – Senior Lecturer at the Department of Literature Study Disciplines;
1994–1997 – postgraduate student at Dragomanov Ukrainian State Pedagogical University;
1997–1999 – Senior Lecturer at the Department of Literary Disciplines;
1999–2001 – Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature;
2001–2005 – Head of the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature;
2005–2008 – postdoctoral study at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv;
2008–2009 – Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature;
2009–2010 – Professor at the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature;
2010–2014 – Head of the Department of Ukrainian Literature and Comparative Literary Criticism;
2011–2014 – Director of the Institute of Philology and Social Communications;
2014–1018 – Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Literature and Comparative Studies;
2018 – present – Head of the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature and Comparative Literary Criticism.