Oksana Nika is a Professor at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology , Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. Her career at this institution spans from Assistant (1995–2000) through Associate Professor (2000–2006, 2009–2014) to her current Professor role since 2014. PhD in Philology (Ukrainian Language, 1998) Doctor of Philological Sciences (2010) Academic leader of projects on Language Practice in Modern Socio-Humanitarian Contexts (2022) and Literature and Language Dimensions of Ukrainians and Belarusians (16th–17th c.) (2019–2020) Editorial leadership for Linguistic and Conceptual Views of the World journal (2022–) and Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko University (2021–) Her research focuses on historical linguistics and language practice , particularly: 1) historical language in state formation and pseudotheory refutation; 2) socio-cultural value explication; 3) multilingual terminology dictionaries for health insurance, logistics, tourism, and religious communication. She combines historical linguistics with cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis to study 16th–17th century Ukrainian texts. Recent publications include frequency dictionaries of proper names (2022) and 16th-century monuments (2019), historical morphology studies (2021), and discourse analysis of early modern sermons (2022). Her work integrates historical linguistics , terminology , and computational methods for multilingual text analysis. Scientific contributions include: Over 30 peer-reviewed publications (Scopus/Web of Science indexed) Key monographs on Baroque sermons (2019) and Nobel Gospel analysis (2021) Editorship of 6 multilingual dictionaries She advises PhD/Master’s students in historical linguistics, including Hrytsyna Svitlana (Baroque innovations, 2015), Oleshko Yuliya (cognitive sermon analysis, 2017), and Rusynko-Bombyk Lyubov (Ukrainian linguistics in interwar Czechoslovakia, 2019).
