Valentyna Ushchyna

EDUCATION

• 2016 – Doctor of Philology, Kyiv National Linguistic University
• 2003 – Candidate of Philology, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University
• 1988 – Diploma of Lesya Ukrainka Lutsk State Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Foreign Languages

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

• 2019 – present – Professor of the English Philology Department
• 2018 – present – Chair of the English Philology Department 
• 2018 – present – Member of the Editorial Board "Ukrainian Information Space" (published in Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts)
• 2018 – present – Member of the Editorial Board “Research Trends in Modern Linguistics and Literature” (published in Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University)

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS, MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• 2013 – present – Member of Ukrainian Association for Cognitive Linguistics and Poetics (UACLIP)
• 2018 – present – Member of International Association for the Humanities (MAG)
• 2019 – present – Member of American Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA)
• 2020 – present – Member of Fulbright Alumni Circle

GRANTS

• 1999 – 2000 – Grantee of “Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Program” (University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, USA)
• 2019 – 2020 – Grantee of “Fulbright Scholar Program” (University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

• sociolinguistics
• gender linguistics
• discourse studies
• language and social meaning
• risk discourse and stance

SELECTED PAPERS

• Ushchyna V. Stancetaking in the English risk discourse. Lutsk: Vezha-Druk, 2015. 380 p. (a monograph) [in Ukrainian].
• Ushchyna V. Stancetaking in the discourse on risk: Identities construed. Subjectivity and epistemicity. Corpus, discourse, and literary approaches to stance. Glynn, D. & Sjölin, M. (eds.). Lund: Lund University Press, 2014. P. 215-237 (a chapter in a monograph).
• Ushchyna V. Epistemic stance and the linguistic realization of expert identities in risk communication. Towards the ecology of human communication. Boguslawska-Tafelska, M. & Drogosz, A. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. P. 33-50 (a chapter in a monograph).
• Ushchyna V. Manipulative use of RISK as a stance in political communication. Discourse and society. 2018. 29 (2). P. 198-221 (WOS, SCOPUS).
• Ushchyna V., Belyakov O., Darkevych O., Kozak S. Critical thinking and teaching stylistic analysis of the literary text. Research Trends in Modern Linguistics and Literature. International Journal. Vol. 1. Lutsk, 2018. P. 31-47.
• Ushchyna V. Cognitive dynamics of stancetaking in risk discourse situations. Advanced Education. National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute". 2019. №12. P. 142-149. DOI: 10.20535/2410-8286.154380 (WOS).
• Ushchyna V. Book Note: CORINNE A. SEALS, Choosing a mother tongue: The politics of language and identity in Ukraine. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2019. Pp. 213. Language in Society, 2020. № 49. P. 15-16. DOI:10.1017=S0047404520000202 (WOS, SCOPUS).
• Ushchyna V. Risk communication and stance: Strategic framing in risk discourse. Lege artis. Language yesterday, today, tomorrow. The journal of University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. Trnava: University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. 2020. V (1). 2020. P. 462-501. ISSN 2453-8035 (WOS).
• Ushchyna V. From stance to identity: Stancetaking in contemporary English risk discourse. Cognition, communication, discourse. 2020. № 20. P. 73-91 DOI: 10.26565/2218-2926-XX-Xrf.
• Ushchyna V. The ecology of communication in modern media: A socio-cognitive potential of stancetaking on risk. In: ECO-COMMUNICOLOGY & WORLDVIEW CRISIS: Exploring Lived Experiences of Multitextual Narratives and Multivoiced Judgements in an Age of Globalization. Book of ABSTRACTS. Powsin-Warsaw, Poland, 2021. P. 35-36.
• Ushchyna V. Dyskursyvna postava (anhl. stance): terminoznavchyi i perekladatskyi aspekty [Discourse posture (stance): terminological and translation aspects]. Problemy humanitarnych nauk: zbirnyk naukovych prats Drohobytskoho derzhavnoho pedahohichnoho universytetu imeni Ivana Franka. Seriia «Filolohiia» – Problems of Humanities. “Philology” Series: a collection of scientific articles of the Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, 2021. №46. P. 128–137 [in Ukrainian].