| Associate Professor Theory of Culture and Philosophy of Science Department Kharkiv National University e-mail: Anapolis7@yahoo.com |
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| During the 2004-2005 academic year Viktoria Sukovata was a visiting scholar at The George Washington University associated with the English Department. Her academic advisor was Professor Robert McRuer, who is the author of three books on the history of modern literature. Her visit was sponsored by the Junior Faculty Development Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Viktoriya Sukovata was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She graduated from the Philological Faculty of the Kharkiv State University with a specialty in philology and Russian language and literature in 1991. After graduating she taught Russian as a second language for foreign students in several universities in Kharkiv. In 1997 Viktoriya Sukovata defended her Ph.D. thesis in Philosophical Anthropology and Theory of Culture and obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Viktoriya Sukovata has published more than 80 articles in the area of Gender, Feminist and Postcolonial theories, Semiotics of Culture and Visual Arts, in Ukrainian, Russian and Byelorussian journals: “Philosophical thinking” (Kiev), “Sociology: theory, methods, marketing” (Kiev), “Practical philosophy” (Kiev), “Gender Issues” (Kharkiv), “Social sciences and modernity” (Moscow), “Higher education in Russia” (Moscow), “Sociological Issues” (Moscow), “Other look” (Minsk). She also has published chapters in collective monographs: “Gender in the modern drama” (editions by the Lodz University, 2001 year, Poland), «Deviancy: cultural, psychological and social aspects» (edition by the European Humanitarian University, Minsk, Byelorussia, 2004 year), in collection of the research papers of the University Byelostok (Poland, 2000 year) and “Women in history”(edition by the Ministry of Education of Byelorussia, 2002 year). During the last 8 years Viktoriya Sukovata participated in 7 collective research and teaching projects. She has won more than 12 individual grants, including fellowships abroad to the Central European University in Budapest (Hungary), the Biblical-Theological Institute of St. Andrei (Moscow, Russia), the Ohrid University (Macedonia), the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), and Hamburg University (Germany). Viktoriya Sukovata worked as a trainer for women in the gender field in non-governmental organizations of Kharkiv, and she is a member of the Kharkiv Center for Gender Studies. She has taken part in 20 Ukrainian and International conferences. At her home university she teaches courses in Cultural Studies, the Theory of Religions, Archaic Culture, Gender Theory, Ethics, and Aesthetics in the Philosophical Faculty of the Kharkiv University. During her fellowship at The George Washington University (Washington, D.C.) she developed a course in the field of gender theory: Masculine Studies based on materials from American and Ukrainian literature. |
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