Department of Foreign Literature

Name	Position	Academic Status	Scientific Degree	Google Scholar	Scopus Author ID	Web of Science Researcher ID	Researchgate ID	ORCID ID
Olena V. Maksiutenko	Head of the Department, Associate Professor	Associate Professor	PhD in Philology	Olena Maksiutenko	Olena Maksiutenko	D-3924-2016	Elena-Maksutenko	0000-0002- 5576-0141
Tetyana M. Potnitseva	Full Professor	Full Professor	Doctor of Philology	Tatiana Potnitseva	Potnitseva Tetyana	2010847	Tatiana Potnitseva	0000-0002- 7271-1763
Viktor A. Gusev	Full Professor	Full Professor	Doctor of Philology	Viktor Gusev		5006577	Viktor Gusev	0000-0002- 7220-4331
Svitlana O. Vatchenko,	Associate Professor	Associate Professor	PhD in Philology	Svitlana Vatchenko	Svitlana Vatchenko	D-3889-2016	Svetlana-Vatcenko	0000-0001- 9677-4980
Tetiana Ye. Pichugina	Associate Professor	Associate Professor	PhD in Philology	Tatiana Pichugina		U-1542-2017	Tatiana Pichugina	0000-0002- 7000-2357
Oleksiy V. Levchenko	Associate Professor	Associate Professor	PhD in Philology	Oleksij Levchenko		D-3921-2016	Oleksij-Levchenko	0000-0001- 5773-4783
Natalia G. Veligina	Associate Professor		PhD in Philology	Natalia Veligina		D-3850-2016	Natalia-Veligina	0000-0001- 6070-039X

72, Nauky Avenue, room 1201/1203, Dnipro, Ukraine, 49010
Phone: +38 (056) 374-98-78
Email: kafedra.uzl.dnu.1201@gmail.com

Educational and Teaching Activities

For more than half a century, Department of Foreign Literature has been an important force in the academic study of literature and a key part of a classical education on the field of philology.

The Department teaches the majority of undergraduate students of the Faculty, graduates more than 100 majors every year, and trains PhDs in Foreign Literature and Comparative Literature.

Today the Department represents a wide variety of scholarly and critical approaches to the study of European and American literature and literary history.

The Department offers an array of major and minor courses for undergraduates and PhD students, i.e.: Introduction to Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, History of European Literature, History of American Literature, Literary Translation: Theory and Practice, Literary Theory, History of Literary Theory and Criticism, Modern World Literature: Authors, Texts, Tendencies, Be the British/Think like Americans. National Identity in Language and Literature, etc.

The Department of Foreign Literature offers Bachelor’s study programmes in:

– В11.041 English and other Western European languages and literature
– В11.043 German and English languages and literatures
– В11.055 French and English languages and literatures
– А4.021 Secondary education: English language and literature

The Department of Foreign Literature provides training to gain Master’s degree in:

– В11.041 English and other Western European languages and literature
– В11.043 German and English languages and literatures
– В11.055 French and English languages and literatures

Scientific Activity of the Department

Scientific activity is carried out on the topic “National and Transnational in the Context of Literature”.

The results of scientific works are made public at the annual All-Ukrainian scientific conferences "Philological Readings in Memory of N.S. Shreider" and published in the collection of scientific works "From Baroque to Postmodernism: Contexts of the Epoch”.

The academic staff of the Department has started publishing a number of collective monographs: "Literature Through the Looking Glass of Literature" (2018), "Fictionality in Literature: Fiction of Reality/Reality of Fiction" (2021), "The Word as Fact and Factor of Literature" (2022). Department science clubs successfully introduce students to a variety of themes: "Actual Problems of Studying English literature of the Renaissance", "Text and Context: Literary Classics of the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Socio/Cultural Area", "In Search of Scientific Metalanguage. Basics of Intermedial Studies of Cultural Artifacts". Theses and academic papers based on the materials of student reports at International, All-Ukrainian and regional scientific conferences are published.

International Cooperation

The Foreign Literature Department staff members are involved in international cooperation and take part in the work of Internet conferences (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, the USA, Portugal, Japan), foreign internships (Collegium Civitas University in Warsaw, Freie Universität Berlin). The department maintains scientific contacts with fellow philologists from Poland (Professor Marta Kowal, University of Wrocław), Germany (Professor Ievgeniia Voloshchuk, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

Stakeholder Collaboration

The Department cooperates with stakeholders: Olga Kalashnikova, Head of the Department of Humanitarian Training, Philosophy and Customs Identification of Cultural Values, University of Customs and Finance, Tetyana Filat, Head of the Department of Language Training of Dnipro State Medical University, Vadym Kholodkov, Headmaster of the Specialized School No. 16 of the Dnipro City Council.