03/2023 bis 03/2024 Masterstudium an der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, ÖsterreichFachmaster Slavische Studien (sprachwissenschaftlicher Schwerpunkt)

Masterarbeit "Forschungen zur ukrainisch- russischen gemischten Rede: Vergleich der Ansätze und Ergebnisse in und außerhalb der Ukraine“

09/2012 bis 06/2013 Masterstudium an der Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National Universität, Ukraine

Lehramt, Philologie, Lehrerin für Anglistik und Germanistik

Masterarbeit „Evolution of the English Verb“

09/2007 bis 06/2012 Bachelorstudium an der Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National Universität, Ukraine

Englische Philologie/Literaturwissenschaft

Bachelorarbeit „Development of English tense in diachrony “

Arbeit in wissenschaftlichen Projekten:

03/2020 bis 03/2024 FWF-Project Ukrainian-Russian and Russian-Ukrainian Code Mixing FWF I-4189 an der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Österreich

2014-2020 Lehre an der Nationalen Universität "Odesa Rechtsakademie", Abteilung für Journalistik, Odesa

Titel der Dissertation: „Language Biographies and Identity Construction: a study of Suržyk speakers through narrative and discourse”

Abstract

Informed by a sustained interest in studying the language situation in Ukraine, the proposed dissertation will offer a grounded understanding of the language biographies of Suržyk speakers and contribute to the understanding of the linguistic situation in Ukraine which is characterised by the politically charged competition between Ukrainian, Russian, and Suržyk. Suržyk is a mixed code with a very low overt prestige, and therefore the speakers are the perfect candidates to understand which roles the mixed Ukrainian-Russian speech, along with Ukrainian, and Russian can play in the lives of the Ukrainians. The project is based on in-depth interviews in which respondents talked about formal and informal language use in different domains during their life (family, school, university, work). They also cover the attitudes of the respondents to three language codes, to the Ukrainian cultural heritage, and to politics regarding the language use in Ukraine. The data provide an opportunity to study connections between macro events (changes in language policy) and micro events (in the personal lives of the respondents). In this respect, my study will be useful for further studies conducted not only on Suržyk, but also on other mixed languages and language biographies.