Associate Professor
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Date of Birth: November 10, 1972
Education:
- 1989-1994: Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology, majoring in “Teacher of German and English”, graduated with honors.
Postgraduate Studies:
- 1997-2000: Lviv Ivan Franko National University, postgraduate studies with detachment from production in “Germanic Languages”, Department of German Philology, supervised by Associate Professor Tetiana Mykolaivna Struk;
- 2002-2008: Eberhard-Karl University of Tübingen (Germany), postgraduate studies without detachment from production, supervised by Prof. Jürgen Pafel.
Academic Degree:
- October 2008: defense of dissertation for the degree of Dr. phil, Eberhard-Karl University of Tübingen (Germany), with the assessment magna cum laude.
Professional Experience:
- 1994-1995: Senior Laboratory Assistant, Department of German Philology, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University;
- 1995-1997: Assistant, Department of German Philology, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University;
- 2001-2010: German Language Teacher, BruderhausDiakonie, Reutlingen (Germany);
- 2010-2013: Research Fellow at the Institute of German Studies, University of Stuttgart (Germany);
- 2014-2016: Speech Development Methodologist, Municipal Department of Education and Upbringing, Tübingen (Germany);
- 2016-2018: German Language Teacher, Educational Center of the German Academy for Personnel Development (Deutsche Angestelltenakademie), Reutlingen (Germany);
- Since October 2018: Assistant at the Department of German Philology, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.
Scholarships:
- October 2000 – July 2001: German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/ DAAD) scholarship, research internship at the University of Tübingen (Germany);
- January 2002 – April 2002: Hans Seidel Foundation (Hans-Seidel-Stiftung, Germany) scholarship, research internship at the University of Tübingen (Germany).
Volunteering:
- 2001-2018: Ukrainian School at the Parish of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church of St. Basil the Great in Stuttgart (Germany), school teacher, organizer of parish and school events;
- 2002-2006: Municipality of Tübingen (Germany), translator for conversations with Ukrainian and Russian-speaking residents of the city on child matters.
Research Interests:
- Temporality in Modern German and other languages;
- Syntax of Modern German;
- Morphology of Modern German;
- Comparative grammar of German and Ukrainian;
- Grammar of constructions in modern linguistics;
- Methodology of teaching German as a foreign language (with emphasis on temporal constructions/forms).
Languages Spoken: Ukrainian, Russian, German, English.