Oleksandr KALNYCHENKO

associate professor at Mykola Lukash Translation Studies Department.

Education:

  • 1977 — graduation from the School of Romance and Germanic Philology, O. M. Gorky Kharkiv State University (Division of Translation).

Professional Career:

  • 1977-1978 — junior researcher, senior researcher, Scientific and Technical Information, All-Union Research and Process Engineering Institute of Hop Production;
  • since 1979 — lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Kharkiv Automobile and Highway Institute (currently university) (KhADI);
  • since 1999 — associate professor, Department of Translation Theory and Practice, Kharkiv University of Humanities “People’s Ukrainian Academy”;
  • since 2008 — associate professor, Department of English Translation Theory and Practice.

Research Interests:
History and theory of translation, translation teaching methods.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-357X

Teaching:

  • Translation History;
  • Translation Theory;
  • Translation and Interpretation practice;
  • Foundations of summarizing and abstracting English texts in Ukrainian;
  • Literary Translation.

Main Scientific and Methodological Works:

  • Discovering Erased Discussion on Translation Method in Ukraine in 1927-1931. Translation Studies in Ukraine as an Integral Part of the European/ Djovčoš, M.; Perez, E.; Kusá, M.; Hostová, I. (eds.). Bratislava: VEDA, 2023. Pp. 36-62. DOI 10.31577/2023.9788022420150
  • Kalnychenko, Oleksandr and Lada Kolomiyets The First Comprehensive Treatments of Translation in Eastern Europe (1959s-1960s). The Routledge Handbook of the History of Translation Studies| Anne Lange, Daniele Monticelli and Christopher Rundle (Eds.). London and New York : Routledge, 2024. Pp. 127–49. DOI:10.4324/9781032690056-10
  • Kolomiyets, Lada and Oleksandr Kalnychenko. Translating Russian Literature in Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine, Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context/ Muireann Maguire and Cathy McAteer (eds). Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024. Pp.295–319. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0340.17
  • Hostová, I., Monticelli, D., Kalnychenko, O., Djovčoš, M. 2024. Addressing power imbalances in research and translation studies. In World Literature Studies, vol. 16, no.3, pp. 108-125. 1337 - 9275. https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2024.16.3.8 (Scopus)
  • Kalnychenko O. 2025. Volodymyr Derzhavyn: An Erased Translation Scholar of the Late 1920s – Early 1930s. In: Positionalities of Translation Studies: On the Situatedness of Translation Research (Bloomsbury Advances in Translation)/ Garda Elsherif and Joanna Sobesto (eds.). London/New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. P. 171-194. DOI: 10.5040/9781350447905.0015 (Scopus)
  • Kalnychenko, Oleksandr. 2025. Early ideas on translator and interpreter training in Ukraine: 1930s. In: Translator and Interpreter Training Methodology: The Ukrainian Dimension/ Chernovaty L. (ed.). Banska Bystrica: Belianum. P. 11 – 25.https://doi.org/10.24040/2025.9788055722580
  • Kalnychenko, O., & Kolomiyets, L. (2024). Translation and censorship in Ukraine under Russian and Austrian rule, 1800–1917. In D. Merkle & B. J. Baer (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of translation and censorship (pp. 165–176). London & New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003149453-14
  • Kolomiyets, L., & Kalnychenko, O. (2024). Translation and censorship in Soviet and independent Ukraine. In D. Merkle & B. J. Baer (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of translation and censorship (pp. 243–260). London & New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003149453-20
  • Kolomiyets, L., & Kalnychenko, O. (2026). Ukraine, 1927–1932: Discussions of translation methods in Ukraine in the late 1920s–early 1930s. In K. Batchelor & I. Odrekhivska (Eds.), Translation studies before “translation studies”: Nothing happened? (pp. 217–252). London: ULC Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089877

Contact information:

E-mail: o.a.kalnychenko@karazin.ua