Oksana Starshova is an Associate Professor at English Philology Department of Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. She teaches courses in Contemporary Literatures in English, Communicative Strategies in English, Academic Writing for PhD students, American Literature. During her participation in the Junior Faculty Development Program in 1999-2000 she was affiliated with Fairfield University in Connecticut. She holds a PhD in American Literature from the Shevchenko Institute of Literature, the National Academy of Sciences since 2008.