Prof. Dr. Tetiana Shestopalova

Tetiana Shestopalova is a professor at the Faculty of Philology at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. She has a scientific degree of Doctor of Philological Science specializing in “Theory of Literature” (year of defense: 2011). Her doctoral thesis “Concepts of Yurii Lawrynenko’s theoretical awareness” focused on the theoretical and literary ideas and fundamental principles of Yurii Lawrynenko’s scientific criticism. Lawrynenko is a well-known representative of the wave of political emigration by Ukrainians after World War II. T.Shestopalova’s thesis is based on Y.Lawrynenko’s works (literary works, archive documents). It contains a lot of material for investigation of displaced person’s awareness, thoughts about Ukrainian culture, policy, history and contemporary as well as about Ukrainian collective memory, transformation of identity and trauma.
Tetiana Shestopalova is the Head of Department of Ukrainian Philology and Intercultural Communication at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University.

Classes Taught

History of Ukrainian Literature (XIX – beg. XX c.), Literature of Ukrainian Emigration, History of Literary Criticism, Theory of Literature, Ukrainian as a Foreign Language

Teaching Interests

Intellectual Biography of Ukrainian writers (XIX– mid.XX c.)

Project Related Publications

National Culture as a Strategy for Self-preservation of Personality:Yuri Shevelov and the World War II. Part I. Synopsis: Text, Context, Media. Issue27, №1 (2021), p. 22-31. Issue’s DOI: doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2021.1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2021.1.4

National Culture as a Strategy for Self-preservation of Personality:Yuri Shevelov and the World War II. Part II. Synopsis: Text, Context, Media. Issue 27, №2 (2021), p. 63-69. Issue’s DOI: doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2021.2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2021.2.4

Part of books (In Ukrainian):
Literary-intellectual in migration processes: challenges for memory and identity. Ed. Olexandr Pronkevych. Mykolaiv, 2018. pp. 50-79. https://dspace.chmnu.edu.ua/jspui/handle/123456789/281

Ukrainian literary and journalistic space of times of DP through the prism of Yuri Lavrinenko's correspondence. Dialog der Sprachen - Dialog der Kulturen. Die Ukraine aus globaler Sicht. Herausgegeben von Olena Novikova und Ulrich Schweier. Georg Olms Verlag - UB Ludwig-Maximilians München, 2021. ISBN 978-3-487-16073-3 (Druckausgabe) Open Access doi.org/10.5282/ubm/rpub.77877 ISSN 2629-5016 (Druckausgabe) ISSN 2629-5024 (elektronische Version)

Part of books (In English):
Uprootedness and rootedness as a challenge and a factor of national identity (the critical method of Jurij Lavrinenko. Ukraine und ukrainische Identität in Europa: Beiträge zur Standortbestimmung aus/durch Sprache, Literatur und Kultur. Institut für Slavische Philologie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: Open Publishing LMU, 2017 / 2018. Pp. 207-220. Open-Access-Version dieser Publikation verfügbar unter: nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:XXX-NOCH-NACHZUTRAGEN 978-3-95925-047-4 (Druckausgabe) 978-3-95925-048-1 (elektronische Version).

Identity and trauma: Visual Art of Jacques Hnizdovsky. (Audio-) Visual Arts and Trauma: From the East to the West. Ed. by Janett Reinstädtler and Oleksandr Pronkevich. SARAVI PONTES – Beiträge zur internationalen Hochschulkooperation und zum interkulturellen Wissenschaftsaustausch herausgegeben von Astrid M. Fellner, Roland Marti, Christoph Vatter, Elisabeth Venohr Band 9. – universaar Universitätsverlag des Saarlandes Saarland University Press Presses Universitaires de la Sarre, 2018. – 216 p. – Pp. 17-42 (http://universaar.uni-saarland.de/monographien/volltexte/2018/177/).

Research Interests

Ukrainian Culture & Emigration after World War II (memory, identity, thinking)