Iryna Smushchynska

Iryna Smushchynska serves as Professor and Head of the M. Zerov Department of Theory and Practice of Translation from Romance Languages at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv since 2011, following academic progression from Lecturer (1994) to Associate Professor (1995-2004) and Professor of French Philology (2004-2011).

Her academic credentials include:

• 1984: Graduate, Faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
• 1993: PhD in Philology (Romance Languages)
• 2003: Doctor of Philological Sciences
• 2011: Full Professor

Professor Smushchynska's research centers on Translation Studies and Stylistics of Romance Languages, with emphasis on stylistic translation phenomena, pragmatics, literary translation, and computational lexicography. Current investigations examine micro/macro discourse elements in translation, artistic image transfer, stylistic tropes, denotative/connotative meaning preservation, and author-translator idiolect dynamics, utilizing interdisciplinary frameworks from linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computer science.

Her 15 most recent publications (2009-2018) reveal strong thematic continuity in semantic analysis of translation challenges, particularly regarding archaisms, enantiosemy, and metaphorical language. Methodologically, she integrates corpus-based approaches with cognitive and computational perspectives, focusing predominantly on French-Ukrainian translation while expanding to Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese language pairs.

As research group leader, she has supervised 17 PhD theses over the past decade, producing monographs, textbooks, dictionaries, and software tools. Her team edits the scientific collection 'Style and Translation' and provides expertise in conference interpreting training and comparative stylistics.

The research group operates through interdisciplinary collaboration, employing parallel/comparable corpora to analyze translation phenomena across stylistics, literary studies, sociolinguistics, and computational linguistics, with emphasis on empirical validation of theoretical frameworks.