Oksana Babelyuk

Oksana Babelyuk is a distinguished philologist and professor currently serving as Visiting Professor in the Discipline of English and Writing, School of Art, Communication and English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the University of Sydney, Australia. In Ukraine, she is Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies, Lviv State University of Life Safety. Additionally, since 2014, she has been Professor and Doctor Habilitated at the Languages, Culture and Philosophy Department, Polonia University, Czestochowa, Poland. Born on May 18, 1970, in Drohobych, Lviv Region, Ukraine, she completed her higher education at Drogobych State Pedagogical University named after Ivan Franko from 1987 to 1992, obtaining a qualification as a teacher of English and German languages. She defended her Candidate of Science in Philology on September 12, 1997, at Kyiv National Linguistic University. Her Doctor of Philology was defended on July 10, 2010, at the same institution, with a thesis titled “Poetics of Postmodern Literary Discourse: Principles of Text Formation (a Study of Modern American Short Stories),” in the specialty of German languages. She has held the title of Professor since February 23, 2012.

Her research specializations include poetics, stylistics, cognitive poetics, text interpretation, postmodern poetics, and contemporary American and Australian literature, particularly the short story genre. She has published extensively, with key works such as “Conceptual Category Person and Means of its Verbal Presentation in the Fantasy Genre” in Advanced Education (2018), “Using Distance EdTech for Remote Foreign Language Teaching During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Ukraine” in Arab World English Journal (2020), “Language Means of Revealing Postmodern Ludic Absurd in English Literary Text” in WISDOM (2021), “Unusually Combined Lexemes as Means of Creating Uncertainty in English Postmodern Short-Short Stories” in Postmodern Openings (2022), and “Genre Blending as a Motivated Choice in Postmodern Poetics” (2024). Babelyuk has presented at international conferences, including “Transcultural Turn in Contemporary Australian Literature: a Shift from Postmodernity to Transmodernity” at Kütahya Dumlupınar University (2024), “Contemporary Australian Literature: Ideological and Transcultural Aspects” at Kyiv National Linguistic University (2024), and “Exploring the Diverse Voices of Modern Australian Fiction” at the University of Ottawa (2024). Her scholarship also covers business discourse, political discourse, and language means in media.

Professional Email: oksana.babelyuk@sydney.edu.au