Dr. Yuliya Stodolinska

Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar | DAAD Zukunft Ukraine 

Building A 5.3, room 2.01.2 

E-mail: yuliya.stodolinska[at]uni-saarland.de  

Yuliya Stodolinska is a visiting postdoctoral scholar at the Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University, member of the UniGR Center for Border Studies, and an associate professor of the English Philology and Translation Department at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukraine. She holds a PhD in Philology (Germanic Languages). Her research focuses on the multimodal representations of borders and border crossings in American and European digital media, literary, and marketing discourses.  

 

Research and Teaching Interests

Border Studies 

Discourse Studies 

Intercultural (Business) Communication 

Cultural Studies  

Cognitive Linguistics  

International Projects

  • “Border Chronotopes in the Digital Age: Memories in Times of Wars,” DAAD Eastern Partnerships Program, Saarland University, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukrainian Catholic University, University of Silesia in Katowice, 2024–2026. 

  • “Cultural Encounters / Encuentros Culturales,” DAAD, Transatlantic Dialogues series, Saarland University, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, June 2024.  

  • “AI Across Borders” within the “Digital Teaching Plug-in” (DaTa-Pin) Project, Saarland University, April 2023–March 2024. 
  • “Cross-linguistic InformationTheoretic Modelling of Communicative Efficiency,” Collaborative Research Center SFB 1102 at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2022–2024.  
  • “Border Studies: Global Classroom,” German-American Institute Saarland, Saarland University, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, September 2022–June 2023.  
  • “Bridging Borders: Future Challenges and Cultural Dynamics,” DAAD Eastern 
    Partnerships Program, Saarland University and Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, 2021–2023. 
  • “Borderland Stories,” “MEET UP! German-Ukrainian Youth Encounters” EVZ 
    Foundation, Saarland University and Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, September–December 2021. 
  • “The Bio-Politics of Borders in Times of Crisis,” DAAD Eastern Partnerships Program, Saarland University and Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, 2018–2020. 

Classes Taught

Saarland University 

  • Proseminar “AI and Social Media: Critically Analyzing Digital Discourses” (Summer semester 2024, co-taught with Eva Nossem) 
  • Proseminar “Exploring Sociolinguistics in the Age of AI: From Dialect Discrimination and Biased Performances to Simulating Language Change” (Winter semester 2023–2024, cotaught with Eva Nossem) 
  • Proseminar “Monolingualism, Multilingualism, and Everything in Between” (Summer semester 2023, co-taught with Eva Nossem) 

Trier University of Applied Sciences 

  • Seminar “Intercultural Business Communication” (Winter semester 2022–2023) 

Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University 

  • English for Leadership and Formation of Soft Skills (cotaught with Olena Rybachuk)
  • Intercultural Business Communication and Translation  
  • American Studies and Essentials of Intercultural Communication 
  • Business English 
  • English as a Foreign Language 
  • Communicative Strategies of the English Language 
  • English for Professional Communication 
  • Theory of Linguistics 
  • English for Leadership and Formation of Soft Skills 

Publications

Conference Presentations

“AI Across Borders: Debunking Bias in AI.” Presentation (together with Svitlana Kot) at the Symposium “Shaping the Future – Women in AI,” Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 2024.

“Constructing the Digital Memory of War: Discursive Power of Popular Visual Art in Times of Russo-Ukrainian War.” Presentation (together with Svitlana Kot, Alina Mozolevska, Olha Polishchuk) at the 36th Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art, Lyon, France, June 2024.

“A Contemporary News Corpus of Ukrainian (CNC-UA): Compilation, Annotation, Publication.” Presentation (together with Stefan Fischer, Kateryna Haidarzhyi, Jörg Knappen, Olha Polishchuk, and Elke Teich) at the Third Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP) @ LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy, May 2024.  

“AI Across Borders: Border-Crossing & Translinguistic Experiments with AI.” Presentation (together with Astrid Fellner and Eva Nossem) at the Workshop “ChatGPT in the English Department,” Saarland University, Saarbrücken, April 2024.  

“A Contemporary News Corpus for Ukrainian (CNC-UA).” Poster presentation (together with Stefan Fischer, Kateryna Haidarzhyi, Jörg Knappen, Elke Teich) at the DGfS Annual Meeting 2024: Language and Attitude, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, February 2024.  

“Representation of Ukraine in American Universities’ Social Media: Multimodal Approach.” Presentation at the 3rd International Scientific and Practical Conference “Linguistic Horizons of the 21st Century” (hybrid), Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, November 2023.  

“AI Across Borders.” Poster Presentation (together with Astrid Fellner, Eva Nossem, Svitlana Kot) at the DaTa-Pin Conference on Innovative Teaching, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, October 2023.  

“Street Art Wartime Narratives: Documenting the War and Giving Hope.” Presentation at the 8th Annual Conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG) “Popular Cultures,” Saarbrücken, Germany, September 2023.

“Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Challenges of the Future.” Presentation (together with Astrid Fellner and Eva Nossem) at the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Transformations of Personality, Society, and the Labor Market: Future Challenges and Impact on Education” (hybrid), Kharkiv, Ukraine, September 2023.

“American Universities’ Reaction to Border Violence in Ukraine: “Statements on Ukraine” in Social Media.” Presentation at the UdS American Studies Graduate Forum “Borders in Crisis: Border Struggles and Border Violence in a Global Perspective,” Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, May 2023.

 

“Statement on Ukraine: Multimodal Representation of Ukrainian Identity in American Universities’ Social Media”. Presentation at the International Conference “The Media: The Fourth Estate? Identity, Memory and Heritage,” University of Pau and the Adour Region, Pau, France, December 2022.

“COVID-19 Pandemic on University Campuses: New Age of Borderization.” Presentation at the International Conference “Border Renaissance: Recent Developments in Territorial, Cultural, and Linguistic Border Studies,” Saarbrücken, Germany, February 2022.

“Narratives of Border Crossings in American Short Films during the Pandemic.” Presentation at the UdS American Studies Graduate Forum “Border Close-ups: Film and Everyday Lives in the Borderlands,” Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, December 2021.

“US Border Crossings during the Pandemic: Multimodal Representation in Advertising Media.” Presentation at the International Conference “Border-crossing through Interdisciplinary and Media Studies,” University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, November 2021.

“Distance in the American University Discourse in the Times of COVID-19 Pandemic.” Presentation at the UdS American Studies Graduate Forum “Distance and Diversity in Times of Crisis: Literary Expressions and Artistic Responses,” Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, October 2020.

“Oceanic Spaces in American Girl Historical and Contemporary Fiction: Challenges of the Past and Discoveries of the Present.” Presentation at the UdS American Studies Graduate Forum “Liquid Trajectories: Flight, Mobility, and Migration,” Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, November 2019.

“Border Crossings in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Books: The Interrelation of Metaphorical and Physical Borders.” Presentation at the UdS American Studies Graduate Forum “Cultural Borderlands: Literatures, Film, and Aesthetic Practices,” Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, December 2018.

“The Female Narrator in the Little House Book Series.” Presentation at the XII International Scientific and Practical Conference “Olbian Forum-2018: Strategies of the Black Sea Region in the Geopolitical Space,” Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolaiv, Ukraine, June 2018.

“Discourse Personality in American Marketing Discourse: Communicative and Pragmatic Aspect.” Presentation at the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Linguistics of the 21st Century: Achievements and Perspectives,” Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine, November 2017.

“Marketing Discourse of American Children’s Clothing Companies: Structure, Communicative and Pragmatic Functions.” Presentation at the XI International Scientific and Practical Conference “Olbian Forum-2017: Strategies of the Black Sea Region in the Geopolitical Space,” Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolaiv, Ukraine, June 2017.

“Classification of Creolized Texts in the Marketing Discourse of American Children's Clothing Companies.” Presentation at the International Scientific Conference of Ukrainian Association of Cognitive Linguistics and Poetics “Cognitive Linguistics in Interdisciplinary Context: Theory and Practice,” Cherkasy National University, Cherkasy, Ukraine, October 2016.

Guest Lectures, Roundtable Discussions, Workshops

  • Guest lectures as part of the courses “Management of Translation Projects,” “Introduction to Border Studies from a Cultural Studies Perspective,” Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukraine, January–May 2024. 
  • “Beyond Borders: Exploring US Regions across Time and Space.” Guest Lectures as part of Danielle Kopf-Giammanco’s course “Introduction to Cultural Studies – North America: United States,” Saarland University, Germany, November 2023; June 2024. 

  • “Digital Media, Art and Conflict: The Role of Visual Narratives in the Russo-Ukraine War.” Guest Lecture (together with Svitlana Kot, Alina Mozolevska, and Olha Polishchuk) within the Lecture series “Culture in Diplomacy, Diplomacy in Culture and Society,” Vienna School of International Studies, Austria, March 2024. 

  • „Überraschend Ukrainisch: Gerechtigkeit hat viele Gesichter.“ Offene Gesprächsrunde zum Tag der offenen Gesellschaft, FrauenGenderBibliothek Saar, Germany, June 2023.  
  • “From Campus Closure to Campus Reopening: Borders and Crisis Communication in American Corona Discourses.” Guest Lecture as part of Eva Nossem’s course “It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Critically Analyzing Discourses of Crisis,” Saarland University, Germany, January 2023. 
  • Interkulturelle Workshop „Deutsch-Ukrainisch im Rahmen des Projekt DAZ Coaches“ (together with Elisabeth Venohr), Saarland University, Germany, June 2022 
  • “The Future of Education in Ukraine.” Roundtable discussion “The War in Ukraine – and Its Consequences for Saarland University,” Saarland University, Germany, April 2022.  
  • “Linguistic Construction of Gender in the Workplace.” Guest lecture as part of Eva Nossem’s course “Talking Gender, Talking Race: Introduction to Intersectional Sociolinguistics,” Saarland University, Germany, December 2021. 
  • “Territorial and Symbolic Borders in Literary Discourse.” Guest lecture as part of Dr. Oksana Starshova’s course “Introduction to Border Studies from a Cultural Studies Perspective,” Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukraine, October 2021. 
  • “Corona Discourses in the US: Multimodal Representation on University Websites.” Guest Lecture as part of Eva Nossem’s course “Of Anti-Maskers, Front-Line Workers, and Superspreaders: Critically Analyzing Corona Discourses,” Saarland University, Germany, June 2021. 

Fellowships

  • Zukunft Ukraine Research Fellowship, DAAD July 2024–December 2024 

Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany 

  • North American Literary and Cultural Studies Department Fellowship January 2024–June 2024 

Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany 

  • STIBET Research Fellowship, DAAD August 2023–December 2023 

Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany 

  • Research Fellowship at the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1102 – Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL), February 2023–July 2023 

Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany 

  • DAAD University Summer Course Scholarship, August–September 2009 
    Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany 
  • Eurasian Undergraduate Exchange Program Fellowship, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, August 2006–May 2007 
    Riverland Community College, Austin, MN, USA 

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