Valentyna Shkola

1986 – Simferopol State University named after M. V. Frunze, qualification: philologist, teacher of Ukrainian Language and Literature;
1998 – National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, speciality 10.01.01 – Ukrainian literature, postgraduate course;
2009 – National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, speciality 10.01.01 – Ukrainian literature, postdoctoral course;
2021 – Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, programme subject area: ‘Philology (German language and literature), qualification: Master of Philology (German language and literature).

1998 – PhD in Philology, speciality 10.01.01 – Ukrainian literature. Thesis title: Dramaturgy of Spyrydon Cherkasenko (Individual Style Evolution);
2003 – academic title of an Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature;
2019 – Doctor of Philology, speciality 10.01.01 – Ukrainian literature. Thesis title: Folklorism of the Ukrainian Dramaturgy of the 20–30s of the 20th Century;
2024 – academic title of a professor.

1986–1991 – teacher at Frunze secondary school of the city of Alushta;
1991–1997 – associate lecturer in the Department of Literature Study Disciplines at P. D. Osypenko State Pedagogical Institute of Berdiansk;
1997 – a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University;
2000 – Associate Professor in the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University;
2010 – Associate Professor in the Department of Ukrainian Literature and Comparative Studies at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University;
2018 – an Associate Professor in the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature and Comparative Literary Criticism at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University;
2024 – present – Professor in the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature and Comparative Literary Criticism at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University.