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Dr. Liudmyla Möbius (geb. Pidkuimukha)

Postdoctoral Researcher

DFG-Project “A Comparison of Language Ideologies in the Soviet Union and Selected Successor States (Estonia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia) – Continuity, Ruptures, Reorientations”

Dr. Liudmyla Möbius © Heide Fest

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Forschungsprofile

 

 

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Language ideologies
  • Language and conflict
  • Language and identity
  • Linguistic and cultural transformations during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Language policy in Ukraine and other successor states of the USSR

 

Sprachliche Schwerpunkte

Ukrainisch, Englisch, Polnisch

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

  • 2006 – 2012 — MA in Philology (Theory, History of Ukrainian Language, Comparative Linguistics) at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
  • 2012 – 2016 – PhD, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
  • 2015 – 2021 – Associate Professor, Ukrainian Language Department, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
  • 2021 – 2022 – Visiting Lecturer at the Jagiellonian University, Lane Kirkland Scholarship Grantee
  • May 2022 – April 2025 – Postdoctoral Researcher at the Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • May 2025 – June 2025 – KIU Research Fellow at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
  • August 2025 – October 2025 – Research Fellow at the Research Center “Transformations of Political Violence” (TraCe)
  • Since May 2026 – Postdoctoral Researcher at the Justus Liebig University Giessen
 

Veröffentlichungen

Monograph:

  • 2020 Mova L’vova, abo koly j batiary hovoryly [The Language of Lviv, or when it was spoken by the Batyars]. Kyiv: Clio.

Edited volumes and journals:

  • 2026 Languages in Conflict and War. Palgrave Studies in Languages at War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08419-4_2 (together with Vamling, K., Kiss, N., Petersson, B.)
  • 2025 Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 57: Decolonizations: Theories, Practices and Discourses in East-Central Europe and Beyond (together with Tkachenko, O.,  Wróblewska-Trochimiuk, E.).

The most recent selected articles and chapters in edited volumes:

  • 2026 Language and Identity Erasure: Russia’s Strategy in the Occupied Regions of Ukraine. (pp.23–54) In Vamling, K., Kiss, N., Petersson, B., Pidkuimukha, L. (eds) Languages in Conflict and War. Palgrave Studies in Languages at War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08419-4_2
  • 2025 Decolonizations: Theories, Practices and Discourses in East-Central Europe and Beyond. Editorial. Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 57: Decolonizations: Theories, Practices and Discourses in East-Central Europe and Beyond (together with Tkachenko, O.,  Wróblewska-Trochimiuk, E.).
  • 2025 Deconstructing the ‘Russian World’ Ideology: Ukrainian Public Figures’ Discourse in Times of War. Language: Classic – Modern – Postmodern, 11, 186–207. https://doi.org/10.18523/lcmp2522-9281.2025.11.186-207
  • 2025 Present and Future of the Ukrainian Language Teaching and Ukrainian Studies in Europe. (pp. 3–34). In Weixiao Wei and Derlin Chao (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of the Sociopolitical Context of Language Learning. London: Routledge (together with Kiss, N., Skintey, L., Orobchuk, D.).
  • 2025 Toponymic Decommunisation in Ukraine: Renaming Gagarin Streets and Reclaiming the Symbolic Landscape. In: Dumbrava, Vasile & Şarov, Igor (Eds.). Confruntarea cu simbolurile sovietice. Conflicte privind interpretarea trecutului =Поводження з радянськими символами. Конфлiкти щодо iнтерпретацiї минулого. MIL: Moldova-Institut Leipzig. – Chişinău.
  • 2025 “Without you”: the Distancing from the “Russian World” in the Statements of the Ukrainian High-ranking Officials. In Мови та культури під час війни:Колективна монографія (Languages and cultures in times of war: Collective monograph), edited by Halyna Shumytska and Alex Krouglov, 272–286. Uzhhorod: Uzhhorod National University.
  • 2025 “Russia Must Be Opposed on All Fronts”: How the Full-Scale War Has Changed the Language Situation in the Ukrainian Business Environment. In: Kiss, N.& Wingender, M. (eds.). Contested Language Diversity in Wartime Ukraine. National Minorities, Language Biographies, and Linguistic Landscape. Ibidem Verlag, pp. 69–89.
  • 2024 Resistance through pop culture and ideology of “Russian World”: on deconstruction in times of war (2024). AREI. Journal for Central and Eastern European History and Politics, 2, pp. 57–97 (together with Kiss, N., Kolisnyk, J.).
  • 2023 Are We Brothers? Pseudo-peaceful discourse in Russian media manipulation. In: A. Salamurović (Ed.). Konzepte der NATION im europäischen Kontext im 21. Jahrhundert. Geschichts-, politik- und sprachwissenschaftliche Zugänge (Reihe Sprache, Geschichte, Politik und Kommunikation). Heidelberg: Springer Nature—J.B. Metzle, pp. 159–178.

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