Krivoruchko Svitlana Kostyantynivna

EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC TRAINING

From 1989 to 1995 she studied at the philological faculty of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

From 1995 to 1998 she studied in graduate school at the Department of History of Foreign Literature of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University .

In 2006 she defended her thesis «The dynamics of the personality of the hero in the fiction of Andre Gide» at the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University and received a Ph.D. in philological sciences in the specialty 10.01.04 – literature of foreign countries.

Krivoruchko Svitlana Kostyantynivna received the title of Associate Professor in 2011

From 1997 to 2000 – Lecturer at the Department of History of Foreign Literature and Classical Philology at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

2000 to 2008 – Senior Lecturer at the Department of History of Foreign Literature and Classical Philology.

From 2000 to 2008 – Senior Lecturer at the Department of German Philology and Translation.

From 2008 to 20014 - Associate Professor of the Department of History of Foreign Literature and Classical Philology;

From 2008 to 20014 – Associate Professor at the Department of German Philology and Translation;

From 2013 to 2016 – Section Head of Chinese Philology and Translation of the Department of German Philology and Translation;

From 2014 to 2018 – Head of the Department of Romance Philology and Translation at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University;

From 2018 to 2020 – Professor of the Department of World Literature, Coordinator of Science of the Faculty of Slavic Studies, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University;

From 2020 to the present – Head of the Department of Foreign Literature and Slavic Languages of Ukrainian Literary Faculty named after G.F. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.

EDUCATIONAL AND METHODOLOGICAL WORK

While working at the university, Kryvoruchko S.K. gave lectures on various disciplines, in particular, «History of Roman Literature», «Ancient Literature», «Renaissance Literature», «Literature of the 17-19th centuries», «Literature of the 20th century», «Modern Literature of Foreign Countries» , «Folklore of the Nations of the World», «History of Polish Literature», «Children's Literature», «Literature of the Kharkiv Region», «History of English Literature», «History of Spanish Literature», «History of French Literature», «Poetics of Literary Work», «Contemporary Literature». Kryvoruchko S.K. teaches disciplines of the III level of accreditation for graduate students: «Methodology and methods of philological research», «Theory and practice of teaching philological subjects in higher education», «Typology of styles and directions of the literary process».

In 2015, Kryvoruchko S.K. contributed to the founding of the Department of Oriental Languages and Intercultural Communication at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.

In 2016, she contributed to the introduction of the subject «Italian as a second foreign language» at the Department of Romance Philology and Translation of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

Scientific interests – directions of the historical and literary process; personalities of French literature of the XXth century; tendencies of modern literature at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries; personification of modern Ukrainian, French, German, English, Norwegian, Italian, Chinese literature; tendencies of world literature at the turn of the ХІХth – ХХth centuries. and XX century.

У 2015-2018 рр.   заснувала та організувала 4  міжнародних наукових конференції «Художні феномени в історії світової літератури: перехід мови в письменництво».

In 2015-2018 Kryvoruchko S.K. founded and organized 4 international scientific conferences «Artistic phenomena in the history of world literature, the transition of language to writing» (Kharkov, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University).

In 2019-2020 she organized 3 all-Ukrainian conferences with international participation «Harmony and Chaos: Unity or Conflict» in 2019; «Values in the artistic space – the individual and the social context» 2020; «Freezman readings: scientific and methodological heritage, continuation of traditions» 2020 (Kharkiv, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University).

In 2017 – founded and published 2 issues of the Anglophone electronic journal «Accents and Paradoxes of Modern Philology».

In 2020 – the founder for the deputy editor-in-chief of the anglophone electronic magazine «Astraea» 2020 Information letter. The journal can be found at the link http://journals.hnpu.edu.ua/index.php/astraea/issue/view/184

In 2018-2020 – a head of the scientific and methodological seminar «Modern Academic Communication» (2018-2019, 2019-2020. Faculty of Slavic Studies; 2020-2021 Ukrainian Literary Faculty named after G.F. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko) H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.

Kryvoruchko S.K. is a member of the editorial board of professional philological journals of category B «Scientific Notes» and «Philological Treatises».

4 candidate dissertations in philological sciences have defended under the guidance of prof. S.K. Krivoruchko. He has about 200 scientific and educational-methodical works, including monographs, textbooks, teaching aids, encyclopedias, scientific articles in WOS, Scopus and professional journals.

The main scientific results are the analysis of the non-conformist thinking of the «strong» hero in the work of André Gide, the evolution of the character from non-conformism to conformism. In the works of A. Gide, it was found modernist aspects represented by philosophical hedonistic motives. It was explored the fruitful embodiment of the elements of symbolist poetics; the writer's premonition of postmodern aesthetics; disclosure of the phenomenon of literary existentialism as a problem of choice. It was reconsidered the «reputation» of Simone de Beauvoir (the conclusion of the writer's achievements from the shadow of Jean-Paul Sartre), her role and place in the history of literature of the twentieth century were recoded. It was correlated syntagma «literary existentialism» in the aspect of the semantic content of the term: the phenomenon of the problem of choice in diachrony and synchronicity was revealed. In the literary works of Simone de Beauvoir, a combination of parable and journalistic layers was found. The parable cavity arises from the «myth" about Adam and Eve, the publicistic one arises from the understanding of historical, social, political and cultural events. Eva absorbed the archetypes of the ancient Greek goddesses. The archetypes of goddesses are manifested in artistic images, respectively, to concepts such as: «feminine» – alchemical goddess (Aphrodite from the archetype of the Great Goddess), «feminist» – untouched goddesses (Artemis, Athena, Hestia), and «feminine» – impressionable goddesses (Hera, Demeter, Persephone). The author has revealed the significant contribution of S. de Beauvoir to the creation of «feminine» artistic images which due to the problems of choice, introduce the idea of the importance of «love», lose their feelings and the status of the «Other» as an inferiority complex, and reach the level of creative self-realization of the existential. S. de Beauvoir realizes the phenomenon of literary existentialism as a problem of choice that is posed to the hero and contributes to his evolution. It is proved that the creation of influential heroines by S. de Beauvoir, respectively «feminine» concept, influenced the literary images of the XX-XXI centuries.

In the trends of European literature at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries researcher established the formation of the artistic paradigm «critical fiction», formed after postmodernism, changed postmodern aesthetics as a «tradition» in opposition and inheritance. The following aspects are inherent in «critical fiction»: the revival of communication, revival of tradition – connection to traditional literature; revival of history; the revival of linearity; the isolation of the personalities of the past from the aesthetics and directions to which they relate; attention to «individual» works of artists; revival of the plot, intrigue; revival of faith, values; finding connections, asserting the existence of a system and hierarchy; an appeal to science, religion, psychology as explanatory systems of knowledge; an attempt to find the truth; image – «invention» of the environment as a demonstration of a different view of the world; narrative instance of the author-hero; transformation of the genre, synthesis of styles: scientific, artistic, journalistic, advertising; social determinism; combination of material and spiritual: technicalism with psychologism; avoiding cliches; overcoming the complex of «mass» and «crowd»; the return of historicism: copying from history and writing into history; linearity, instead of a circle; auto-fixation; story-filiation - uncertain nation as hesitant storytelling; the period of «no-knowledge»; contamination; aesthetic minimalism; veiled intertextuality; illusiveness.

The author has proved that postmodern sensibility is denied by «critical fiction» in portraying the world as chaos, when it revives faith, the existence of universal human values, and inherits and deepens the poetic thinking of the postmodern «manner of writing». She denies the principle of nonselection when looking for «connections», affirming the existence of social and other systems and hierarchies. She rejects fragmentation returning plot linearity. She expresses confidence in the meta-story when referring to science, religion, psychology as explanatory systems of knowledge. She denies the discreteness of history, trying to revive «history» as an evolutionary process, as well as postmodernism «critical fiction» reveals the shortcomings of the media, but more aggressively. In contrast to postmodernism, which rejected the truth, claiming its variability, «critical fiction» tries to find the truth and revive morality and universal human values. In the chronotope of «critical fiction» the hero is actively involved in modernity, time of represented events is the present (linear, sequential, evolutionary, historical); space is «earthly» and «unearthly» (after death), place is earthly life and existence after death in «unearthly dimensions».

Auto-fixation turns out to be in the combination of the empirical author and the explicit author in the image of the main character of the work, that is not identified with the real author. Biographical fiction is just an imitation of the biography of a real author or another famous writer who is the hero of the work. An indecisive nation demonstrates a certain  point of view in the hero's narration from his inner view, which is a focalization of the worldview position. Story-filiation provides for the establishment of connections, inventions of authenticity and distinction, explains «self» and «non-self». Social determinism reveals causality, connections in society, presupposes a «connection» between a work and reality, as an attempt to include it and influence society. The features of «critical fiction» are found in the works of contemporary writers F. Begbede, A. Notomb, J. Muax, M. Kundera, I. Noll, J. Barnes, T. Eggen, J. Gorder, J. Paulo, Shan Sa M. Barbery, B. Verbera, D. van Koveler, S. Rushdie, Shan Sa, J. Paolo, S. Vakarchuk and others.

SOCIAL ACTIVITY

2014 – «Dialogues» with Lydia Starodubtseva: «Is there literature for men and women? ...». Media.

2015 June 3 – contributed to the opening of the Ukrainian-francophone academic center at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

2016 – «Meredian Czernowitz – Poetic Festival» documentary film.

2016 – «Femme fatale in cinema» with Dmitry Petrenko. Media.

  PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2012 – certified advanced training at the Department of World Literature of H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.

2017 – certified internship at the Catholic University of Milan (Italy).

2017 – lecturing on Ukrainian literature at the universities of Italy – Milan, Parma, Brescia: the work of S. Skovoroda, Lesya Ukrainsky, Nikolai Khvylovy, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk.

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