Dr. Maryna Vardanian, Full Professor of Children’s Literature and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine

Maryna Vardanian, born in 1979, received a Candidate of Philological Sciences degree (PhD in Philology) from The Volodymyr Vynnychenko State Pedagogical University of Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), in 2010, and a Doctor of Philological Sciences degree (Dr. habil.) from The Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine, in 2019.

Since 2012, she has been working in the field of children’s literature and comparative literature at The Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, where she is currently Dean of Faculty of Foreign Languages.

Her research interests include literary imagology, translating studies and literature written by Ukrainian Diaspora. She has published a number of papers in journals, is a member of International Research Society for Children’s Literature, and editorial board of Literatures of the World: Poetics, Mentality and Spirituality.

www: https://kdpu.edu.ua/personal/pm_rectora.html

e-mail: maryna.vardanian@gmail.com