Department of Ukrainian Philology

Department of Ukrainian Philology

Department of Ukrainian Philology is a space for professional growth, scientific research and lively dialogue about the Ukrainian word, literature and culture. It combines the traditions of the academic philological school and modern approaches to education, research and professional training of future specialists. The lecturers of the department are scientists, teachers and mentors who, with their knowledge, experience and creative initiatives, shape the modern philological environment and support the students' aspirations for knowledge, self-development and scientific creativity. The department actively participates in educational, scientific and cultural initiatives, develops academic cooperation and establishes the Ukrainian word as an important component of professional, cultural and civic competence.

The growth and development of the department takes place under the motto: "Coming together is a beginning, sticking together is progress, working together is success.».

Today, the department unites 6 scientific and pedagogical workers, including 5 associate professors; all teachers have a PhD degree.

Radionova Tetyana Mykhailivna, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Ukrainian Philology

E-mail: t.radionova@forlan.org.ua

She graduated from the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages with a degree in English, Ukrainian Language and Literature and qualified as a teacher of English, Ukrainian language and literature.

She graduated from the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (2003). She defended her dissertation on the specialty 10.02.01 - Ukrainian language on "Status, semantics and functions of the series in the structure of a simple sentence" (2004). In 2011 she received a certificate of associate professor.

Teaches disciplines: "Communicative strategies (Ukrainian language)", "Methods of teaching the Ukrainian language in high school", "Modern Ukrainian language (morphemes and word formation, morphology, syntax)", "Linguistic analysis of the text. Editing and literary editing "," Methods of teaching the Ukrainian language "," Modern scientific language ".

Author of more than 30 scientific and educational works. He is an opponent in the defense of PhD theses, reviews abstracts. Provides scientific guidance for bachelor's and term papers. She was awarded honorary diplomas for high professionalism and conscientious attitude to the education of student youth, personal contribution to the formation of a positive image of the institute.

Scientific and methodological internships: educational symposium "The role of education in the era of disinformation and technological progress" in the framework of the project of the Council for International Research and Exchanges (IREX) "Study and distinguish: information literacy" from 07.09.2019 to 09.10.2019; online course on the EdEra platform "Academic Integrity" (October 2019, 4 p.m.).

Research interests: topical issues of syntax of the modern Ukrainian language, functional and communicative aspects of text linguistics, text categories.

Marakhovska Valentina Gavrilovna, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Linguistic Communication

E-mail: v.marakhovska@forlan.org.ua  

She graduated from the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages with a degree in English, Ukrainian Language and Literature (1994) and postgraduate studies at the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (1998).

She defended her dissertation on the specialty 10.02.01 - Ukrainian language on the topic "Types of complex sentences with comparative contractors." In 2008 she received a certificate of associate professor.

Teaches disciplines: "Fundamentals of Ethnology and Folklore", "Historical Grammar of the Ukrainian Language", "Literary Communication and Stylistics of Discourse", "Sociolinguistics (Ukrainian)", "Communicative Strategies: Ukrainian Language", "Narrative Practices of Modern Ukrainian", " Language analysis at school and philological university (Ukrainian language) ".

Author of more than 20 scientific and educational works. She was awarded the Medal. P. Gorlov and diplomas for significant achievements in the development of education, training of highly qualified personnel, personal contribution to the formation of a positive image of the institute.

Research interests: syntactic ordering of the Ukrainian language, stylistics and culture of the language.

Titova Olga Borisovna, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Philology.

E-mail: o.titova@forlan.org.ua

She graduated from Donetsk State University with a degree in Ukrainian Language and Literature (1997).

In 2010 she defended her dissertation on the specialty 10.02.01 - Ukrainian language on the topic «Period in the structural organization of the text ".

Author of more than 20 scientific publications. Provides scientific guidance for term papers.

Teaches disciplines: "Communicative strategies (Ukrainian language)", "Modern Ukrainian literary language (phonetics, lexicology, morphology)", "Ukrainian dialectology", "Ukrainian language for professional purposes", "Business Ukrainian language", "Historical grammar", "Language analysis in school and philological university".

International internship Kuyavian University in Wloclawek (Republic of Poland) on the topic "Philological education as a component of the education system of Ukraine and the EU" (specialty "Philological Sciences" in the amount of 180 hours) from 03/25/2019 to 04/05/2019; educational symposium "The role of education in the era of misinformation and technological progress" in the framework of the project of the Council for International Research and Exchanges (IREX) "Study and distinguish: information literacy" from 09/07/2019 to 09/10/2019; online course on the EdEra platform "Academic Integrity" (October 2019, 4 p.m.).

Research interests: text linguistics, innovative educational technologies.

Muratova Olga Vitalievna, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Philology.

E-mail: o.muratova@forlan.org.ua

She graduated from the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages with a degree in French, Ukrainian Language and Literature and qualified as a teacher of French, Ukrainian language and literature (1999); in the specialty "Pedagogy and methods of secondary education. History ”and qualified as a history teacher (2011).

She graduated from the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (2011). In 2013 she defended her dissertation on the specialty 07.00.01 - History of Ukraine on "Genesis of the literary sixties in Ukraine: the historical aspect."

Teaches disciplines: "Introduction to Literary Studies", "Analysis of literary text: genres and styles", "History of Ukrainian literature of the second half of the nineteenth century", "History of Ukrainian literature of the twentieth century", "Methods of teaching Ukrainian and foreign literature in secondary education", "The latest literary process in Ukraine: concepts and trends."

Author of more than 20 scientific and educational works, in particular, textbooks on "Methods of teaching Ukrainian literature", "History of Ukrainian literature of the second half of the nineteenth century." Provides scientific guidance for bachelor's and term papers. She was awarded honorary diplomas for high professionalism and conscientious attitude to the education of student youth, personal contribution to the formation of a positive image of the institute.

Scientific internship: Kharkiv National Pedagogical University named after G.S. Frying pans, Department of Ukrainian and World Literature on the topic: "Innovative strategies in teaching professionally oriented literary disciplines to students of philology" from 02.10.2017 - 02.11.2017; international internship Kuyavian University in Wloclawek (Republic of Poland) on the topic "Philological education as a component of the education system of Ukraine and the EU" (specialty "Philological Sciences" in the amount of 180 hours) from 03/25/2019 to 04/05/2019; educational symposium "The role of education in the era of misinformation and technological progress" in the framework of the project of the Council for International Research and Exchanges (IREX) "Study and distinguish: information literacy" from 09/07/2019 to 09/10/2019; online course on the EdEra platform "Academic Integrity" (October 2019, 4 p.m.).

Research interests - innovative approaches in the methodology of teaching literature, analysis of literary work.

Kolgan Elena Vladimirovna

Candidate of Philological Sciences, docent

Olena Volodymyrivna Kolgan has two higher educations in the following specialties: "Pedagogy and Methodology of Secondary Education. Ukrainian Language and Literature" (DSPU, diploma with honors), 035.033 "Philology (Slavic Languages and Literatures (including translation), the first one is Polish)" (Lesia Ukrainka SNU).

He has been working at Donbas State Pedagogical University since 2000.

In February 2009, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences in the specialty 10.02.01 - Ukrainian language at Zaporizhia National University on the topic "Semantic and word-formation structure of Ukrainian mining terminology."

He teaches the courses "Practical Course in Ukrainian", "Fundamentals of Punctuation Literacy", "Polish Language", "Practical Course in Polish Language", etc.

In 2007, he was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor.

Main scientific works:

  1. Dictionary of the most commonly used terms in mining / compiled by O.V. Kolgan. Slavyansk, SDPU, 2007. 323 p.
  2. Kolgan O. Orthographic and orthoepic practical course / Kolgan O., Ovcharenko N., Padalka R., Yatsenko N. // Textbook for students of full-time and part-time studies in the specialty "Philology". Slavyansk-Kyiv: Entrepreneur Matorin B.I., 2011. 110 p. Vif MES Ukraine (Letter No. 1/11 – 8768 dated 22.09.2011).
  3. Kolhan, O., Kolhan, T., & Padalka, R. (2023). Studying Polish in the higher education institutions of the Donetsk region of south-eastern Ukraine: History, current state, problems, and prospects. Cognitive Studies Études cog-nitives, 2023 (23), p.1-14. Article 3044. https://doi.org/10.11649/cs.3044.
  4. Kolgan O.V., Padalka R.M., Kolgan T.V., Lysenko N.V., Ponomarenko O.A. Linguistic picture of the world in Polish and Ukrainian languages (on the example of the works of Wisława Szymborska and Anatoly Fed) // Academic Studies. Series "Humanities". Lutsk: Municipal institution of higher education "Lutsk Pedagogical College" of the Volyn Regional Council, 2025. No. 2. Pp. 3-11.
  5. Padalka R., Kolgan O., Kolgan T. Peculiarities of linguistic text analysis in modern realities of education // Humanization of the educational process. 2026, No. 1 (109). Pp. 61-70.
  6. Kolgan O., Kolgan T., Padalka R. Binary lessons in rhetoric and stylistics: linguistic analysis of Ukrainian and Polish texts (methodological recommendations). Sloviansk: DDPU, 2026. 74 p.
  7. Kolgan O.V., Kolgan T.V., Padalka R.M. Methodological recommendations for conducting practical classes in the academic disciplines “Rhetoric and stylistics of the Ukrainian language”, “Ukrainian language in professional communication”. Part 1. Scientific style. Slavyansk: DDPU, 2026. 65 p.
  8. Kolgan O., Kolgan T., Padalka R. Methodological recommendations on the latest technologies for studying Slavic languages (tasks for conducting integrated classes in Polish and Ukrainian in higher education institutions). Sloviansk: DDPU, 2023. 60 p.

Since 2014, he has been an assistant to the rector of the Donbass State Pedagogical University.

Since 2020, she has been the director of the Ukrainian-Polish International Center for Education and Science of the Donbas State Pedagogical University.

Member of the National Union of Local History Scholars of Ukraine.

Lysenko Natalia Vasylivna

Candidate of Philological Sciences, docent

E-mail: 1609natali@ukr.net

Lysenko Natalia Vasylivna has been working at the DSPU since August 15, 1996. She has three higher educations.

 In 2006, at the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, she defended her dissertation on the topic: “Ukrainian Artistic Movement: Modernization of Literary Tradition and Modernism” for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences in the specialty 10.01.01 – Ukrainian Literature.

From November 1, 2006 to August 31, 2026, she worked as an associate professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language and Literature. In 2009, she was awarded the academic title of associate professor.

In 2007, she won the regional competition “Young Person of the Year” in the nomination “Young Scientist of the Year”.

Lysenko N.V. is the author of more than 100 scientific publications.

Main scientific works:

  1. Lysenko-Kovalyova N.V. Methodical instructions and work plan-program for studying the course “History of Ukrainian Literature (Ancient). Slavyansk: PP “Kanzler”, 2008. 60 p.
  2. Lysenko-Kovalyova N.V. Ukrainian literature of the first half of the 19th century. Methodological manual and work plan-program. Slavyansk: PP "Kanzler", 2008. 64 p.
  3. Lysenko-Kovalyova Natalia. Artistic Movement: The Relationship between Tradition and Modernism / Arrangement and Preface by Natalia Lysenko-Kovalyova. Slavyansk: PP "Kanzler", 2010. 212 p.
  4. Ukraine in the world literary space: a textbook / Compiled by Lysenko Natalia, Shcherbatyuk Victoria. Donetsk: State Enterprise "Order of the Badge of Honor" All-Ukrainian State Multidisciplinary Publishing House "Donbas", 2014. 250 p.  Seal of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Letter No. 1/11-11521 dated July 22, 2014)
  5. Lysenko N.V. Man as a part of society in the works of Ukrainian emigrant writers. Person, Family, and Society: Interdisciplinary Approach to the Harmonization of Interests. Monograph.  Opole: The Academy of Management and Administration in Opole, 2016. P. 78-85.
  6. Lysenko N. History of Ukrainian Literature: From Antiquity to the First Half of the 19th Century: Teaching and Methodological Manual. Slavyansk: DDPU, 2020. 123 p.
  7. Lysenko N. History of Ukrainian Literature of the 19th Century: from T. Shevchenko to I. Frank: Teaching and Methodological Manual. Slovʼyansk: DDPU, 2020. 95 p.
  8. Lysenko N. History of Ukrainian Literature of the Late 19th Century - beginning of the 20th century: educational and methodological manual. Slavyansk: DDPU, 2021. 92 p.
  9. Educational and methodological manual for the preparation and design of course and qualification papers for applicants for higher education in the educational and professional programs "Secondary education (Ukrainian language and literature)" and "Secondary education (Ukrainian language and literature). Secondary education (English language and foreign literature)" in the field of knowledge A Education specialty A4 Secondary education (by subject specialties) of all levels and forms of study / Compiled by: Bilichenko O.L., Kolgan O.V., Lysenko N.V., Lyashov N.M., Nesteleev M.A., Padalka R.M., Reshetnyak O.O., Ryabinina I.M., Tenditna N.M. Sloviansk - Dnipro: State Higher Educational Institution "DDPU", 2026. 234 p.

Teaches courses: "History of Ukrainian Literature", "Introduction to Literary Studies", "Ukrainian Literature of the Diaspora", "Ukraine in the World Literary Space", "Theory of Literature", "Methodology of Teaching Ukrainian Literature", "Innovations in the Methodology of Teaching Literature", "Analysis of a Work of Art", "Methodology of Teaching Ukrainian and Foreign Literature", manages educational and production practice.

Since 2017, he has been a member of the jury of the II stage of the All-Ukrainian competition-defense of scientific and research works of students-members of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (sections “Ukrainian Literature” and “Literary Creativity”)

From September 2019 to June 2023, she worked as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Philology, from January 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026. - Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Philology and Economics.

Nataliya Vasylivna is the guarantor of the educational program “Secondary Education (Ukrainian Language and Literature)” for applicants of the first (bachelor's) level of the specialty A4.01 Secondary Education (Ukrainian Language and Literature).

Since September 2023, he has been the head of pedagogical practice at the State Higher Educational Institution “Donbass State Pedagogical University”.

Since September 1, 2026, he has been working as an associate professor at the Department of Ukrainian Philology at the National Research Institute “Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages”.

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