Ievgeniia BONDARENKO

Professor of the Department of English Philology and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages, V. N. Karazin National University, Professor, Doctor of Sciences, Vice-Chief Editor of Cognition. Communication. Discourse, an international on-line journal, Head of international association MEMOSA (Memologists Scientific Association).

Education:

Maksym Gorkiy Kharkiv State University (now V.N. Karazin National University)

Scientific theses:

PhD: References of the Verb and the Noun in the Sentence and the Text (1994, nostrification in Ukraine in 2000)

Doctor’s: Evolution of the TIME notion in the English Language and Discourse in 7th -21st centuries

Academic Positions:

2026Senior Fellow of GATES, MaCI-ILCEA4, University Grenoble-Alpes

2024Engineer-researcher of CEL, Jean Moulin University Lyon 3

2023 Engineer-researcher of ILCEA4, GREMUTS, University Grenoble-Alpes

2012 – currently Professor of the Department of English Philology and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages, V. N. Karazin National University

2002 - 2012Associate Professor of the Department of English Philology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

1993 – 2002Senior Lecturer of the Department of English Philology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

1991 – 1993Post-graduate Student the Department of English Philology, Kharkiv State Maksym Gorkiy University (now V.N. Karazin National University)

Courses Taught:

Basics of Cognitive Linguistics (PhD)

Lexical Semantics and Cognitive Lexicology (PhD)

Practical English (Analytical Reading) (MA)

Medialinguistics and Theory of Information Wars (MA)

Theory of Linguistic Construal of the World (BA)

Lexicology of the English Language and Comparative Lexicology (BA)

Basics of Scientific Research in Linguistics (BA)

Online courses (Canvas):

Comparative Lexicology (BA)

Linguistic Construal of the World (BA)

Professional Memberships:

2026 Head of international association MEMOSA (Memologists Scientific Association) memosa.org

2023 member of AFLiCo (French Association of Cognitive Linguists) (Grenoble, France)

2023 member of the professional Association of Discourse Studies TERTIUM (Krakow, Poland)

2013 – 2023 member of UACLIP (Ukrainian Association of Cognitive Linguists and Poetics)

Research and Training :

2026 Grant of GATES in University Grenoble-Alpes. MaCI-ILCEA4: https://maci.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/fr/international/fellows-2026/ievgueniia-bondarenko

2024 Grant of PAUSE (Collėge de France) in University Jean Moulin Lyin3. Group CEL

2023 Grant of PAUSE (Collėge de France) in University Grenoble-Alpes. Group ILCEA4 of GREMUTS.

Publications

About 200 publications in Ukrainian and international scientific journals in English philology and ELT

Among them:

Books and Book Chapters

Bondarenko I. (in print). « L’ukrainité » comme caractéristique sémio-cognitive de la contre-propagande. Le cas des mèmes de guerre ukrainiens. Langues et discours face à la guerre en Ukraine en deux volumes. Volume 2 : Ukraine et espace ukrainophone. Presses Universitaires Septentrion.

Bondarenko I. (2021) Political Meme as Multimodal Aesthetically Marked Text. In: Pawelec A., Shaw A., Szpila G. (Eds.) Text – Image – Music: Crossing the Borders. Intermedial Conversations on the Poetics of Verbal, Visual and MusicalTexts. In Honour of Prof. Elzbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska. Peter Lang. pp. 503-524.

Bondarenko I. (2019) Time domain matrix modeling in cognitive linguistic research. Human Cognitive Processing. Vol. 65. Perspectives on Abstract Concepts. Cognition, language and communication. Ed. by Mаrianna Bolognesi and Gerard J. Steen. John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2019. P. 287-311. ISSN 1387-6724. https://benjamins.com/catalog/hcp.65.

Bondarenko I. (2013). Kognityvne modeljuvannja jak pidkhid u vyvchenni anglijskoji leksyky rivnja C1-C2 [Cognitive modeling as an approach in teaching English vocabulary of C1-C2 levels]. Suchasni fundamentalni teorii ta innovtsijni praktyky navchannja inozemnoji movy u VNZ [Modern fundamental theories and innovative practices of teaching foreign languages in higher educational establishments]. Ed. by Valentina Pasynok. Kharkiv: Khzrkiv National University. Pp. 139-160.(in Ukrainian)

Bondarenko I. (2005). Kartyna svitu I diskurs: realizatsija dualnoji pryrody liudyny. [World construal and discourse: implementing the dual nature of the human]. Dyskurs jak kognityvno-komunikatyvniy fenomen [Discourse as cognitive and communicative phenomenon]. Ed. by Iryna Shevchenko. Khrakiv: Kostanta. pp. 36-64.

Latest articles (for 5 last years)

1. Bondarenko, I. & Nikolaienko, V. (2022). Like a bad dream: Navigating narrative spaces of pandemic-themed dream reports. In Lege artis. Language yesterday, today, tomorrow. The journal of University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. Trnava: University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, 2022, VII (1), p. 2-32. ISSN 2453-8035 (Web of Science)

2. Бондаренко Є. В. (2023). Паралакс у перекладі екфрастичної поезії (за віршем В. Одена «Musee des beaux arts»). Вісник ХНУ імені В.Н. Каразіна. Вип. 97. С. 7-14.

3. Rossi, C.,Bondarenko, I. (2024). Internet Memes: A Cognitive Approach to the Issue of Semantic Translatability », ILCEA [En ligne], 53. 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ilcea/19860; DOI :https://doi.org/10.4000/ilcea.19860

4. Бондаренко, Є. (2024). Історії, з якими ми виживаємо: когнітивне дослідження українських військових мемів, ILCEA [En ligne], 53. 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ilcea/19721; DOI :https://doi.org/10.4000/ilcea.19721

5. Bondarenko I. (2025). The concept fury in Ukrainian media: Semiotic and cognitive potential, ELAD-SILDA [En ligne], 11 | 2025, mis en ligne le 30 juin 2025, URL : https://publications-prairial.fr/elad-silda/index.php?id=1715

6. Bondarenko I. (2025). Black humour in Ukrainian war memes: cognitive issues. The European Journal of Humour Research 13 (2) 41–62. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/EJHR.2025.13.2.932 (SCOPUS, Q.1)

7. Shevchenko I., Bondarenko I., Onishchenko N. (2026). Discursive strategies of populism in Donald Trump’s rhetoric. Наукові записки. Серія: Філологічні науки. № 1(216), 51-56. DOI https://doi.org/10.32782/2522-4077-2026-216-6

Bondarenko I. (2018) Kharkiv Linguistic School. Heritage. Alexander Potebnja. Cognition, Communication, Discourse, 16, 13-24. DOI: 10.26565/2218-2926-2018-16-01

Textbooks:

“Text Analysis” P. 1 and 2 (BA)

“Text Analysis” P. 1 and 2 (MA) + online course (Canvas)

“American Plays” P.1 and 2 (MA)

“Ecological Issues” (BA)

Scientific Interests:

Cognitive semiotic and linguistics; cultural and linguistic construal of the world; multimodal studies (memetics); information wars and manipulations with public consciousness; time linguistic studies; cognitive translatology.

Contact Information:

E-mail: y.v.bondarenko@karazin.ua

info@memosa.org

Telephone number: (057) 707-55-66

Address: room 7-78, 4 Svobody Sq., Kharkiv, 61022