Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head Department of World Literature.
In 1999 he graduated from the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages with a degree in English, Russian Language and Literature. In 2005 he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences in the specialty 10.01.02. - Russian literature. Topic: (Russian documentary prose of 1917-1920 "Untimely Thoughts" by Gorky, "Doomsday" by IO Bunin, "Letters to Lunacharsky" by VG Korolenko). In 2008 he received a certificate of associate professor of foreign literature. In 2017 he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philology in the specialty 10.01.02. - Russian literature. Topic: "The genre of feuilleton in n literature of the XIX - first third of the XX century: theory, history, personalities, poetics."
He teaches the following disciplines at the department:
The first (bachelor's) level
- Foreign Literature (Middle Ages, Renaissance, XVII-XVIII centuries, XIX century (romanticism), XX century)
The second (master's) level
- Modern literary process: the main trends.
- Gender Studies in Literary Studies / History of Comparative Studies.
- Receptive aesthetics.
- History of modern literary studies.
- Cinema and literature: the poetics of interaction
Manages term papers, bachelor's and master's theses.
Research interests: history of Russian literature of the XX century, satirical and humorous prose, foreign literature of the XX - early XXI century, postmodern trends in world literature, English literature (UK, USA, Canada), cinematic discourse in modern literature.
Publications: 1 monograph, 36 articles in professional journals, 9 articles in foreign publications, 25 conference proceedings at various levels, 4 educational and methodical publications (including 2 textbooks, one of which was stamped by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (co-authored)).
In 2018 he passed the scientific and pedagogical internship "Innovative technologies in education, culture, literature" at the Higher Technical School in Katowice (Poland).