Olha SHUMSKA

Acting Head of the Department of German and French Languages, Associate Professor at the Department of German and French Languages, PhD in Philology

Education:

  • 1984 — graduation with distinction from the School of Foreign Languages, Philology Division, M. Gorky Kharkiv State University (currently: V. N. Karazin National University).

Theses Defended:

  • PhD Thesis: Paradigms of Receptive Criticism (from Konstantska School Experience and “Criticism of the Reader’s Reaction”) (Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University, 2006).

Professional Career:

  • 1984 — teacher, secondary school No. 84;
  • 1986 — lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages, Krasnoiarsk State Medical University;
  • 1988 — lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages, Krasnoiarsk Military Aviation School;
  • 1991 — lecturer, Kharkiv University of Humanities “People’s Ukrainian Academy”;
  • since 2000 — senior lecturer, School of Foreign Languages, V. N. Karazin National University.
  • since 2016 — associate professor, Department of German and French Languages, School of Foreign Languages, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University;
  • since 2016 — Acting Head of the Department of German and French Languages, School of Foreign Languages, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.

Research Interests:
Foreign literature studies, comparative linguistics, translation studies, history of literary criticism.

Teaching:

  • German Language.

Main Scientific Works:

  1. Stanley Fish and literary criticism in the USA // Vestnik Sevastopolskoho natsionalnoho tekhnicheskoho universiteta. – Sevastopol. – 2005. – No. 61. – S. 65-77.
  2. Virtual games of “poetical hermeneutics”: peculiarities of H. R. Jauss and W. Iser’s receptive methodology // Novitnia filolohiia. – Mykolaiv: Vydavnytstvo Mykolaivskoho derzhavnoho humanitarnoho universytety imeni Petra Mohyly. – 2005. – No. 3 (23). – S. 136-145.
  3. Anthropological poetics in H. R. Jauss`s receptive criticism // Proceedings of the international scientific conference. IV Anniversary Karazin Readings, dedicated to V. N. Karazin National University’s 200th anniversary: “Person. Language. Communication”. Kharkiv: Kharkivskyi natsionalnyi universytet imeni V. N. Karazina. – 2004. – S. 288-290.
  4. Literary text in Wolfgang Iser`s receptive and aesthetic theory //Visnyk Kharkivskoho natsionalnoho universytetu imeni V. N. Karazina. - Kharkiv. - 2004.
  5. Receptive aesthetics as a paradigm of literary criticism in Rainer Warning`s theoretical studies // Novitnia filolohiia. – Mykolaiv: Vydavnytstvo Mykolaivskoho derzhavnoho humanitarnoho universytety imeni Petra Mohyly. – 2006. – No. 4. – S. 94-100.

Contact Information

Address: rooms 8-25 and 8-29, 4, Svobody Sq., Kharkiv, 61022
Phone: (057) 707-51-15, (057) 707-54-53
E-mail: germfran@karazin.ua