Oksana Shostak

Recherche

Thèmes de recherche

  • Native American and First Nations of Canada Literature
  • National Identity
  • Gender Studies
  • Decolonialism

Recherche en cours

The research is oriented upon the phenomenon of Native American national identity aspects and their consequences for cultural interference in modern literary texts. There is a separate historic, cultural and gender paradigm, which studies the processes and results of historical events, cultural notions and language contacts in a particular geopolitical space under certain social conditions of communication between colonizers and Indigenous people of North America.

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Biographie

Education and Academic Positions:

  • 1997  PhD Russian Literature. “Poetry by Nicolas Roerich in the context of Russian philosophical lyrics”. G.Shevchenko Institute of Literature of National Academy of Science of Ukraine
  • 2021 HDR specialty Literature of Foreign Countries. “ Native American National Identity in the Literature of Indigenous Writers”. T.G.Shevchenko Institute of Literature of National Academy of Science of Ukraine
  • 2000-2020 Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and American Studies, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2021-now Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2001-2002 Visiting Professor in the Department of English and American Studies Washington State University (USA).
  • 2002 (May-July) Visiting researcher at Harvard University (USA)

Administrative Responsibilities:

  • Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Member of the Academic council Diaspora scientifique Ukrainienne en France
  • Director of the research team Philological dimensions of national identity in the culture of English-speaking countries, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Media

    Publications

      Articles

      Selected Publications:

      Book

      • Artistic Expressions of National Identity in the modern novels by Native American and the First Nations of Canada writers. (Художні вираження національної ідентичності в творчості сучасних північноамериканських письменників корінного походження: монографія. Київ: Талком, 2020. )
      • Native American historical memory vs Catholic traditional discourse in the novels  by Louise Erdrich  In Astraea. Vol.5, No1 (2024). doi: https://doi.org/10.34142/astraea.2024.5.1.04
      • Confrontation and Mutual Reflection of Two Worlds in ‘The Grass Dancer” by Susan Power In Вісник Університету імені Альфреда Нобеля. Серія: Філологічні науки. 2023 № 1 (25).  DOI: 10.32342/2523-4463-2023-1-25-7
      • Fight for Native American National Identity in Media.In Сучасні тенденції в медіагалузі. НУБІП, 2023.
      • Media, Social Networks and Digitalization as Means for NativeAmerican Identity Promotion. In Astraea. Vol.4, No2 (2022). P.54-75. doi: https://doi.org/10.34142/astraea.2022.3.2.04
      • Transformation of Indigenous PeoplesEcological Consciousness.In InterConf, (244), id 12001. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202124412001
      • The Translation of “The Grass Danser” into Ukrainian. In Le plurilinguisme à l’épreuve de la traduction. Nouvelle édition [en ligne]. Aix-en-Provence : Presses universitaires de Provence, 2020 (généré le 07 décembre 2020). Disponible sur Internet : <http://books.openedition.org/pup/11658>.
      •  Transformation of ecological consciousness in the process of solving global ecological problems. In DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/202017514017https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85087896488&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f&src=s&sid=1037ee97e1c631d304f5c50628642d53&sot=autdocs&sdt=autdocs&sl=18&s=AU-ID%2857194440666%29&relpos=0&citeCnt=0&searchTerm
      • Historical and Cultural Aspects of Native American Queer Identity In Вісник Національного авіаційного університету. Серія: Філософія.   Культурологія :  зб.наук.праць. Вип.1 (31). К.: НАУ, 2020.