Valeriia NIKOLAIENKO

Associate Professor at the Department of English Philology and Foreign Language Teaching Methods

RESEARCH GATE: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valeriia_Nikolaienko2

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5056-271X

Education:

2024 — PhD, Karazin Kharkiv National University.

2019 — Master’s Diploma with honors, School of Foreign Languages, Department of English Philology, Karazin Kharkiv National University.

Professional Career:

  • 2024 — Associate Professor at the Department of English Philology and Foreign Language Teaching Methods of Karazin Kharkiv National University

  • 2019 — lecturer at the Department of English Philology of Karazin Kharkiv National University (since Oct 2022 – at the at the Department of English Philology and Foreign Language Teaching Methods of Karazin Kharkiv National University)

Research Interests:

Cognitive linguistics, narratology, discourse, cognitive aspects of manipulation

Teaching:

Practice of the English Language for first-year students of the School of Foreign Languages

Theses:

“Linguo-cognitive analysis of English-language oneiric personal experience narrative.”

PhD thesis in Humanities, Specialty 035 – Philology. Supervisor: Professor Ievgeniia Bondarenko. https://karazin.ua/storage/static-content/source/documents/aspirantura/zakhysty/nikolaienko/Nikolaienko_diss.pdf

Classes:

  • Grammar and analytical reading for 1st year BA students;

  • A Practical Course in English Written Communication (elective)

  • Public Communications (elective)

Digital Applications in Language and Literature Studies (1st year MA students)

Selected articles:

  1. Morozova, I., & Nikolaienko, V. (2026). Politeness Stylisation in Neo-Victorian Play-by-Post Forum Games. Respectus Philologicus, 49 (54), 38-52. https://doi.org/10.15388/RESPECTUS.2026.49.3 (Scopus)

  2. Nikolaienko, V. (2025). ’That’s depressing, lol’: Humor markers in the self-addressed discourse of futureme letters. Cognition, Communication, Discourse, (31), 66-79. https://doi.org/10.26565/2218-2926-2025-31-5https://periodicals.karazin.ua/cognitiondiscourse/article/view/28036

  3. Morozova, I., & Nikolaienko, V. (2024). Emotional appeal in ChatGPT prompts: A study of L2 speakers’ perceptions. Res Rhetorica, 11(4), 155-174. https://doi.org/10.29107/rr2024.4.9 (Scopus)

  4. Nikolaienko, V. (2024). Left-right spatial orientation in dream reports: Image schemas and interactional dynamics. Proceedings of The Eighth Image Schema Day co-located with The 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence(AI*IA 2024) Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, November 27-28th, 2024. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3888/Paper_9.pdf(Scopus)

  5. Nikolaienko, V. (2024). Mentions explicites de la métaphore dans les récits de rêves anglophones et francophones: une perspective cognitive. ILCEA. Revue de l’Institut des langues et cultures d'Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie, 53. https://doi.org/10.4000/ilcea.19749 / Ніколаєнко, В.О. (2024). Експліцитні метафори в англомовних та франкомовних переказах сновидінь: когнітивна перспектива. ILCEA. Revue de l’Institut des langues et cultures d'Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie, 53. https://doi.org/10.4000/ilcea.19830

  6. Nikolaienko, V. (2023). Patterns of evidentials use in dream narratives. Cognition, Communication, Discourse, 26, 83-96. https://doi.org/10.26565/2218-2926-2023-26-06

  7. Nikolaienko, V. (2023). 'I Had a Dream, Which Was not All a Dream': Viewpoint Metaphors in Personal Experience Narratives on War. Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 8(1), 52-70. https://doi.org/10.7592/Tertium.2023.8.1.250

  8. Nikolaienko, V. (2023). Revelative evidential markers in English-language dream reports: A corpus-based study. Cognition, communication, discourse, 27, 56-66. https://doi.org/10.26565/2218-2926-2023-27-04

  9. Bondarenko, I., & Nikolaienko, V. (2022). Like a bad dream: Navigating narrative spaces of pandemic-themed dream reports. Lege artis. Language yesterday, today, tomorrow. The Journal of University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, 7(1), 2-32. https://lartis.sk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/bondarenkonikolaienko.pdf

Selected conference abstracts:

  1. Nikolaienko V. (2026). Oneiric Ekphrasis: Visual Aesthetic Experience in Dream Reports. Multimodality and Transmediality in The Social World (16-17 April 2026, Kharkiv, Ukraine). V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.

  2. Morozova, I., & Nikolaienko, V. (2025). Corpus Methods in Politeness Research: A Case Study of Neo-Victorian RPG Forums Discourse. 5th International Online Conference Corpora and Discourse. 26 November 2025. Kyiv, Ukraine.

  3. Morozova I.; Nikolaienko V. Verticality and Horizontality in Wuthering Heights: Metaphors for Social Hierarchies and Polite Stance. The 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association: Heights, Depths, and Extremes Victorian Popular Fiction Association, 2025.

  4. Nikolaienko, V. (2025). Vertical movement in dreams: sensorimotor and semantic implications. Збірник матеріалів IV Міжнародної конференції «Лінгвістика і виклики сучасного світу: перетинаючи дослідницькі кордони» (м. Київ, 22-23 травня 2025 р.). P. 55. https://uaclipconf.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Proceedings_UACLaP-2025.pdf

  5. Nikolaienko, V. (2024). Online letters to one’s future self: Cognitive implications and the letter genre. Language of the Third Millennium XIII: Language in the Face of Technology (Tertium), pp. 8-9. https://tertium.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ABSTRAKTY-KONFERENCJA-Jezyk-trzeciego-tysiaclecia-XIII-Jezyk-w-obliczu-technologii.pdf

  6. Nikolaienko, V. (2024). Paradoxical oneiric blends: Conceptualization challenges. Abstracts of the 23rd Scientific Conference "Karazin Readings: Person. Language. Communication” Kharkiv: V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 2 Feb 2024. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1tzlrJTT5FPaGIczENZqlQVUMyOJUG7P8

  7. Nikolaienko, V.O. (2023). Viewpoint Metaphor in Trauma Narratives of War in Ukraine. Proceedings of the Fifth International Communication Styles Conference: Communication in Times of Permacrisis. Kraków, 24-25 April 2023. P. 16. https://tertium.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ICS5-abstracts.pdf

Teaching Manuals:

  1. Nikolaienko, V. A Practical Course in English Written Communication: Instruction and Training Manual for Students of the School of Foreign Languages. V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Kharkiv, 2025. https://ekhnuir.karazin.ua/items/469f5664-5fe7-4351-a838-5e6717859240

  2. Nikolaienko, V. Public Communications: A Practical Course: Instruction and Training Manual for Students of the School of Foreign Languages. V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Kharkiv, 2025. https://ekhnuir.karazin.ua/items/4d4416be-a68a-4fae-ad75-a92031012532

Contact Information:

Address: room 7-72, 4 Svobody Sq., Kharkiv, 61022,

Kharkiv, 61022
Telephone: (057) 707-55-66

E-mail: v.o.nikolaienko@karazin.ua