Svitlana Adamenko

Dr. Svitlana Adamenko is a Lecturer at the Department of Slavic Philology, Georg August University of Göttingen, since 2005. She has previously served as Lecturer at Ivan Franko State University of Lviv (on leave since 2004) and held guest lecturing roles at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and Greifswald Ukrainian Summer School. Her expertise includes Slavic linguistics, Sorbian studies, and Ukrainian language pedagogy.

• Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ivan Franko State University of Lviv (1989-1994)
• Doctorate in Slavic Linguistics, O.-O.-Potebnja Institute of Linguistics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1999)
• Postgraduate European Studies, University of Leipzig (2000-2002)

Dr. Adamenko's research focuses on lexical semantics, historical linguistics, and language contact phenomena, particularly in Sorbian and Ukrainian contexts. Her work explores botanical terminology, color naming systems, and urban multilingualism.

She has contributed extensively to Kindler's Literature Lexicon (2009) through biographical and literary analyses of Ukrainian authors. Her publications span from 1994 to 2009, addressing topics like Sorbian plant names and Lviv's linguistic landscape.

Dr. Adamenko teaches Ukrainian, Russian, and South Slavic languages (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian) at Göttingen. She also conducts summer courses in Ukrainian language and culture, and has researched Sorbian language structures through scholarships at Leipzig University.