PhD in Philology, Associate Professor
Foreign Language for Professional and Communication Purposes, English for Business Communication, Foreign Language
holds PhD. in Germanic Languages ;
Associate Professor at Zaporizhzhya National University, Faculty of Management, Business Communication Chair, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine;
Leading Expert of the Business Communication Studies Research Group, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine (since 2006);
Summer Institutes on Teaching Challenges (Yalta 2003, Ukraine), Academic Writing (Alushta 2007, Ukraine), Integrated Approach To ELT (Kharkiv 2011, Ukraine), Development of through Four Cross-Curricular Thematic Lines of the New Ukrainian School (Odessa 2018, Ukraine) and Critical Thinking For Media Literacy (Odessa 2019, Ukraine) U.S. Embassy in Ukraine awards;
Teacher Development Summer Institute «Teaching EFL/ESOL: A Practical Intensive Course-Guide To Successful Teaching» (Sevastopol 2013, Ukraine) the UK Language School & Ukrainian National Banking Academy grantee;
Conference grants (Marga and Kurt Möllgaard Foundation) to the Turin University, (Italy, 2004) and the Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf (Germany, 2007);
Conference grants (Kyiv National Linguistic University) for the IV (2007) and V (2009) International Symposiums of the Ukrainian Society for the Study of English (Kyiv 2007, 2009, Ukraine).
Grantee of the Ukrainian (2006) and Russian (2009) Academies of Science & Russian Institute for Culture Studies (2009).
Visiting Professor at Foreign Languages and Regional Studies Faculty of Moscow State University named after M. Lomonosov, (Moscow, Russia 2011, 2012).
Author of over 80 academic works on business communication, cognitive networking and framing, cross-cultural professional contacts, bilingual language competence.
SIG on Business Communication, involving over 15 University students and Teachers; Annual Panel Discussion On Modern Business Communication, Faculty of Management, Zaporizhzhya National University, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine; Swap shop on regular training for National Student Competition in ESP Language Competence (with annual 2-3 Ukrainian prize winners among students majoring in Management, International Tourism, International Relations and Regional Studies); Annual Sessions on Cross-cultural Studies for Ukrainian National Conference “Management of the Regional Economic Potential”, hold by the Faculty of Management, Zaporizhzhya National University, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine.
Research interests: cognitive & pragmatic aspects of business communication, the integrative cognitive-communicative study of the business document text types, completed as the result of the cross cultural negotiations, effective multilingual team building.