Principal Investigator

Dr Yana Hladyr is a PhD in Literary Studies. She obtained her academic degree on the basis of a dissertation devoted to the problem of conflict in the novels of the Ukrainian writer and prominent cultural figure Volodymyr Vynnychenko¹. She nostrified her doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2024).

A philologist and literary scholar, she specializes in literary theory as well as Ukrainian language and literature. She serves as an Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language and Slavic Philology at the Pryazovskyi State Technical University (Mariupol; since 2022 relocated to Dnipro).

She is a co‑author of the textbook for teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language Rozmovljajemo ukraїns’koju (2022). She was a Fellow at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2022). At the Institute of Slavic Studies, she served as Co‑Principal Investigator, together with Dr hab. Ewa Wróblewska‑Trochimiuk, of the research project “Visual Narratives of Civil Society. The Modern Ukraine Project”, funded by the Foundation for Polish Science under the “For Ukraine” programme (2023-2024).

She also participated in the projects DARIAH‑PL and CLARIN‑PL (“Digital Research Infrastructure for the Humanities and Arts”), implemented at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2024–2026).

In July 2025, she became a laureate of the “Miniatura 9” competition of the National Science Centre, Poland. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the research project „Born of Shocks: The Catharsis of Ukrainian Art in the Content of Cultural Media (2022–2025)”, conducted at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences under the academic supervision of Prof. Anna Nacher (Jagiellonian University). The project focuses on transformative processes in contemporary Ukrainian art, presented to audiences through diverse forms of communication in the digital environment.

Her research interests include visualizations of conflict, contemporary methods of visual image analysis, digital archives, current developments in Ukrainian art, the potential of artistic conflict, network culture, and both conventional and unconventional methods of teaching foreign languages.