Assistant Professor
M.A. Svitlana Shurma, Ph.D.
Department of Modern Languages and LiteraturesTeaching
Consulting hours
Tuesday 9.30-11.30Curriculum vitae
Education
- 1995-1996: Peabody High School, Peabody, Mass., the USA
- 1996-2001: MA – Kyiv State Linguistic University, English Faculty – Language and Literature (English), Ukrainian Language and Literature.
- 2008: PhD – Kyiv State Linguistic University – Linguistics: Germanic Languages – Cognitive Poetics
- 2009: BA – "Profit" Education and Training Center, Kyiv Institute of Investment Management – Marketing
- 2016-2018: post-doctoral student (DSc) – Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University – Linguistics
Internships and study stays
- November 2023: Intensive course "DEVELOPING LITERARY AWARENESS" (30 hours). Dr. Sonia Zyngier, Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine.
- 2023: English Literature and Culture Department, Institute for Language and Literature, Volda University College, Norway, lecturer within the Erasmus programme
- 2023: Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia, lecturer within the Erasmus programme
- 2020: Social Psychology. Prof. S. Plous. Wesleyan University for Coursera.
- July 2019: Lisbon Summer School in Linguistics 2019, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), Lisbon, Portugal
- December 2018: Strategický projekt UTB ve Zlíně (stáže na zahraničních institucích), Department of Anglophone Cultures, Institute of English Studies of Opole University, Opole, Poland
- 2015, 2017, 2018: Visiting Lecturer, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- September 2016 – February 2017: Visegrad/V4EaP Scholarship (51601187), Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Process of employment
- 2018 – present: Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Humanities, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Zlin, Czech Republic
- September 2018 - January 2018: Visiting Professor, Theater Studies Department, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- October 2017 – December 2017: Visiting Professor, Theater Studies Department, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 2015 – 2021: Associate Professor, Department of English Philology and Translation, Institute of Philology, Borys Grinchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2009 – 2016: Associate Professor, Department of English Philology and Translation, Humanities Institute, National Aviation University, Kyiv Ukraine
- January 2009 – 2015: English Language tutor and translator at "Ukraina-Europe" LLC, Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2006 – 2009: Assistant Professor, Department of English Language Lexicology and Stylistics, Kyiv National Linguistic University, Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2007 –2008: part-time employee, Marketing Specialist, Delin Development LLC ("Investment Group "UKRBUD" LLC)
- 2006 –2007: part-time employee, Account Manager, Senior Teaching Assistant, Linguistic Center "Lingvocom", Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2005: translator, tutor at the courses for air traffic controllers; Aerolingua, Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2001 – 2003: Teaching Assistant, Kyiv National Linguistic University, Chair of English Language Lexicology and Stylistics, Kyiv, Ukraine
Membership of expert organizations
Ukrainian Translator Trainers' Union, member since 2009
Societas Linguistica Europaea, member 2020
Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), member 2023