Dr Inna Livytska
Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Researcher for the DFG- funded project “Female Agency in English Narrative Fiction from the 19th to the 21st centuries: an Embodiment-focused Approach”
| Contact Information Department of English / Institut für Anglistik |
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Languages
English, German, Ukrainian, Polish, Russian
Research Interests
- English Literature (the 19th to the 21st centuries)
- Narrative poetics and text linguistics
- Evolution of literary genres
- Semiotics, pragmatism, abductive inference
- Biosemiotics and autopoietic systems
- Discourse analysis
- Emotion-body-mind empirical research
- Philosophy of culture and mind
- Artificial Narrative Intelligence
Academic Appointments
| Since 2024 |
Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Researcher, Justus-Liebig University |
| 2022 – 2024 |
Philipp Schwartz Initiative Postdoctoral researcher, |
| 2021 – 2023 |
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Department of English, |
| 2020 – 2018 |
Postdoctoral research scholar, English Philology and Cross-cultural communication, |
| 2020 – 2008 |
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Chair of Germanic Languages Practice, |
| 2008 – 2006 |
Lecturer, Chair of Translation and Comparative Linguistics, |
Education
| 2020 – 2018 |
Doctor of Philology studies, Habilitation thesis (unfinished). “Narrative discourse: Biosemiotic Principles of Writing”, Speciality: English Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv |
| 2008 – 2003 |
Graduate Studies, Speciality: Philology (Theory of Literature and Ukrainian Literature), Supervisor: Prof. Volodymyr Panchenko, Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University |
| 1999 – 1994 |
MA (Distinction) in Applied Linguistics (English and German) |
Third-party funding
| 08/2024 |
Walter Benjamin DFG Grant 541082367 |
| 08/2022 – 07/2024 |
Philipp Schwartz Initiative Post-doctoral researcher Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, RWTH Aachen |
| 08/2015 – 05/2016 |
Research Scholarship from the Austrian Scholarship Foundation, Institute of English and American Studies, Vienna University |
| 06/2012 – 07/2012 |
Distinguished Visiting scholar, California State University, Chico |
Administrative Positions
| 08/2018 – 09/2016 |
Vice-Dean in Studies and Methodology, Faculty of foreign languages, Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University |
| 08/2015 – 10/2013 | Head of Science and Research Department, Central Ukrainian State University |
Professional Memberships
| Since 10/2024 |
Founding member of the Ukrainian Semiotic Association |
| Since 09/2024 |
Elected Member of the Executive Board, International Association for Semiotic Studies |
| Since 01/2022 |
Member of the International Society for Studies of Narrative (ISSN) |
| Since 09/2018 |
Member of The International Society for the Biosemiotics Studies: Olomouc, CZ |
| Since 08/2018 |
Member of European Narratology Network: Brussels, Belgium |
| Since 09/2014 |
Individual member of EALTA (European Association of Language Testing and Assessment) |
Publications
Publications in Peer-reviewed journals
Narrative Discourse and Biosemiotics
Livytska, Inna. 2023. “Narrating Agency and a Reflective Self in Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry”. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, vol. 11, no. 23, Dec. 2023, pp. 260-71.
Livytska, Inna. 2022. Landscape Semiotics of Subjectivity in the English Novel of the 19th Century. Linguistic and Conceptual Views of the World.
Livytska, Inna. 2021. Narrative Discourse as an Emergent Phenomenon: Global Semiotic Approach. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 9 (16), pp. 57-67.
Livytska, Inna. 2019. The Art of Narration and Artificial Narrative Intelligence: Implications for Interdisciplinary Research. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 7(13), pp. 309-318.
Livytska, Inna. 2020. Modern Post-classical Narratology in the Light of Narrative Approaches. Research Bulletin of Taurida V.Vernadsky National University.
Livytska, Inna. 2020. Linguo-bio-semiotic methodology for analyzing subjectivity in narrative discourse. Research Journal of Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University. Series: Philological Sciences (Linguistics). No 13, (in Ukrainian).
Livytska, Inna. 2020. Linguistic Potential of Biosemiotics in Sign Systems Research. Science and Education a New Dimension. Humanities and Social Sciences 38 (8), pp.37-39 (in Ukrainian).
Livytska, Inna. 2020. Possible Worlds Theory and Imaginary World of Fiction: Points of Interaction. Transcarpathian Philological Studies.
Livytska, Inna. 2020. Gender Subjectivity in the Semiotic Domain of Narrative Discourse. Humanities science current issues. Volume 30, Issue 2, pp.285-289.
Livytska, Inna. 2020. Turning Back to Nature: Perspectives of Biosemiotics in a Post-Pandemic Humanity. Postmodern Openings, 11(1Sup2), pp.07-11.
Livytska, Inna. 2021. An Exploration of Discoursal Identity: The Rhetoric of Narrative Writing. XLinguae, Vol. 14, Issue 2, April, pp.157-168.
Livytska, Inna. 2020. Modelling female narrative identity in the context of Victorian ethos [Modeliuvannia zhinochoi naratyvnoi identychnosti v konteksti etosu Viktorianskoi epokhy]. Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu. Serìâ: Fìlologìâ. 22, s. 45-51.
Livytska, Inna. 2020. Modern Post-Classical Narratology in the light of narrative approaches.
Livytska; Inna. 2020. Semiotic Space of Subjectivity in the English Novel of the 19th Century. Scientific journal International Journal of Philology; Vol. 11, № 3 (2020).
Livytska, Inna. 2020. To the question of narrative identity in the light of phenomenology.
Livytska, Inna. 2019. Empathy and Qualia: An Intersemiotic View on Suffering Representation in Fiction. Conference proceedings The Iconization of Suffering in Literary and Interdisciplinary Perspectives; Apr 2019, Nitra, Slovakia.
Livytska, Inna. 2019. Subjectivity as object of linguistic analysis. International Humanitarian University Herald. Philology.
Livytska, Inna. "The Use of Hedging in Research Articles on Applied Linguistics" Journal of Language and Cultural Education, vol. 7, no. 1, Sciendo, 2019, pp. 35-53.
Livytska, Inna. 2019. Analytic overview of narrative theory and narrativity: modern epistemology of cognition. South Archive (Philological sciences).
Livytska, Inna. 2019. The quest for narratology in the light of the perspective International Humanitarian University Herald. Philology.
Livytska, Inna. Discourse as an Element of Literary Meta-language. Research Bulletin, Issue. 89 (5), Philological Sciences (Linguistics). 2010. pp. 255-259.
Livytska, Inna. Gender Markers´ Representation in Modern English Political Discourse. Research Bulletin, Issue. 96 (1), Philological Sciences (Linguistics). 2012, pp. 376-381.
Livytska, Inna. Sociolinguistic and institutional characteristics of the academic discourse (on the material of English academic articles). Conference proceedings “Modern Aspects of Linguistics and Teaching Methodology of Foreign Language and Literature” 9 -15 February 2015, Institute of Philology, Ivan Franko Zhytomyr National University. pp. 95-97.
Livytska, Inna. Academic Discourse: Levels and Peculiarities of Analysis. Research Bulletin, Issue. 90 (1), Philological Sciences (Linguistics). 2010, pp. 376-381.
Applied Linguistics (selected)
Livytska, Inna. 2017. Developing EFL Students’ Writing Awareness: a Quest for Effective Approach. Research Bulletin. Series: Philological Sciences, Issue 165. pp. 525-530.
Livytska, Inna. 2018. Defining writing ability: models of writing and cognitive behavior. Research Bulletin. Philological Sciences (Linguistics).
Livytska, Inna. 2018. Beliefs on Writer Identity in Academic Writing: A Case Study of Ukrainian and Austrian University Students. LLCE2018 International Conference Language, Book of Abstracts. Vienna (Austria), 5–7 September 2018.
Livytska, Inna. 2018. On the interplay between cognitive processes and L1 and L2 writing. 4th international conference "New Dimensions of Humanities", Plock University.
Livytska, Inna. 2017. Baffling stereotypes in English Writing Assessment in L1 and L2 Settings.
Livytska, Inna. 2016. Developing Writing Competence in CLIL and EFL settings. CLIL 2016: New Perspectives on CLIL, Bilingualism and Plurilinguism, JOLACE, SlovakEdu, o.z.
Livytska, Inna. 2016. Ways of responding to student writing: Teacher vs Peer Response. LLCE 2016: Sucasne Vyzvy vo vyucovani jazykov: ako d'alej? SlovakEdu, o.z.
Livytska, Inna. 2015. Evaluating students‘ writing in EFL: falling through the cracks. Second Online Conference "New Dimensions of the Humanities", Plock University.
Livytska, Inna. 2016. Feedback and evaluation: critiques and challenges of modern EFL academic writing assessment. IRCELT 2016 - 6th International Research Conference on Education, English Language teaching, English Language and Literature in English, 22-23 April 2016, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Livytska, Inna. 2015. Writer presence in English academic essays: corpus-based approach. "Language and Culture: Modern Aspects of Correlation”, Оdesa, 20-21 November 2015.
Livytska, Inna. 2015. Approaches to knowledge and academic writing assessment (teaching English as a foreign language). 6. ÖGSD Tagung: Sprachen und Kulturen: vermitteln und vernetzen: Universität Salzburg, 20.-21. November 2015, OeGSD.
Reviews
Navigating between Real and Virtual Story worlds. Bell, Alice, and Marie-Laure Ryan. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology, edited by Alice Bell and Marie-Laure Ryan, U of Nebraska P, 2019, 354 pp.
Teaching Manuals and Handbooks
English Literature. (A Handbook for Undergraduate Students of English as Second Foreign Language). Edited by I.A. Livytska. Polygraph Terzia Publishing, 2010, 128 p.
Practical Course of English for Specialty “Language and Literature (German and English). KSPU, Kirovohrad, 2014, 186 p. (in co-authorship)
Conference Presentations (last 5 years)
“Biosemiotic and Cultural Dimensions of Emotions in the Narrative Discourse”. 16th World Congress IASS/AIS, Warsaw University, 2- 5 September 2024
“Emotions go first and words only follow...: on Mimicry of Emotions in the Narrative Discourse”. 5th International Conference on Semiotics of Culture and Visual Communication. The Semiotics of Otherness-Nature as the Other: Empathy, Arts & Sustainability, Cyprus University of Technology, 26 -28 June 2024
“Agency of the Narrating Subject” . Narrative Conference 2023. Austin, Dallas, (TX), 1-5 March 2023
“Biosemiotic Patterns of Agency Embodiment in the Narrative Discourse”. Gatherings in Biosemiotics, Olomouc, 27 June -1 July 2022
“Biosemiotic Principles of Narrative Writing”. Annual Conference of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English (AAUTE), Salzburg, 29-30 April, 2022.
“Narrative Discourse: A Biosemiotic Approach”. 6. European Narratology Network Conference in Riga, Latvia, 15-16 September 2021
“Modelling Empathy in Fiction: Samuel Richardson’s Pamela; or the Virtue Rewarded”. 6th International Online Conference New Dimensions of Philology - Languages, Literature, Linguistics, Culture, The Department of Philology, The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,The Mazovian State University in Płock, Poland 22 – 28 April 2020
“Semiotics of Subjective Semantic Space in the Narrative Discourse”. Annual Conference «English across Discourse, Culture, and Literature», Іnstitute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University, 15-16 April 2020
“Semiotics: Is the Meaning Alive?” Hradec Kralove Anglophone Conference, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, 26-29 March 2019
“Narrative Discourse as an Emergent System: Poetics of Intentionality“. Culture and Cognition in Language - 2. Rzeszow University, Poland, 25-26 April 2019
“Narrative writing as experiential and interpersonal process“. Annual Conference on Current Foreign Languages Teaching Issues in Higher Education, Sikorskyi Polytechnic University of Kyiv, 16 May 2019
“Empathy and Qualia: Intersemiotic View on Suffering Representation in Fiction“. Nitra Online Symposium: Iconization of suffering and its meaning in verbal, artistic and cultural frame I (Intersemiotic, interdisciplinary and intercultural examination), Nitra, Slovakia, 8-10 April 2019
“Event as a Cultural Concept: Ontological Perspective” Ukrainian Scientific Readings with Young Career Scholars‚ Philology at the beginning of the 21st сentury: Tradition and Innovations“. Іnstitute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, 4 -5 April 2019
“The Art of Narration and Artificial Narrative Intelligence“. 8th International Conference on Narrative & Language Studies, Karadeniz Technical University, 2-3 May, 2019
“A hundred years of narrative: obtaining a lost self and gaining a new vision of fiction text interpretation in the 21st century“ „A hundred years, a thousand meanings”, SDAS Conference„ Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19- 21 September 2019
“Emergence of meaning in fictional discourse: a biosemiotic approach”. 45.Österreichische Linguistik Tagung, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, 6-8 December 2019