Vitalina Kyzylova, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University (Starobilsk, Ukraine). Doctor’s thesis "Genre and stylistic evolution of the childhood and youth reading of the 2nd half of the XX century" (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Kyiv, 2014). She teaches courses "Children’s literature with the basics of literary criticism", "History of Ukrainian literature", "Theory and practice of speech communication". Scientific interests: Ukrainian literature for children and young people, genre style tendencies in the prose for children and young people, dynamics of Ukrainian literary tales. The total number of scientific, educational and methodological publications is 194. Vitalina Kyzylova is the author of monographs "Literary Specificity of Ukrainian Childhood and Youth Fiction of the 2nd Half of the XX Century" (2014), "Dynamics of Ukrainian literary prose fairy tale: monograph" (2020). She is the co-author of collective monographs "Kolektivní monografie věnovaná 20. výročí zahájení výuky ukrajinštiny jako studijního oboru na Filozofické fakultě Masarykovy univerzity v Brně" (2015); "Innovative pathway for the development of modern philological sciences in Ukraine and EU countries : Collective monograph" (2021). The last published works: Literary cycle of fairy-tales as artistic phenomenon (by example of works of Zirka Menzatiuk) (2017), Urbanistic sights of the modern Ukrainian author’s fairy tale for children, (2017), The author's attempt of representation of the history of generation in the novel by Dmytro Keshel "Parents" (2018), Connotative dimensions of the motives in Ukrainian literary tale (2019),Lexical grammatical resources of modern author’s tale (based on narrative-tale "The third snow" by Ivan Andrusiak) (2019), Marko Vovchok and the literary fairy tale: author's contribution to the development of the genre (2020).