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I completed my BA in Journalism at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where I first began to explore the intersections of language, literature, and gender equality. Both my undergraduate and MA research focused on feminist media analysis, including the role of Ukrainian mass media in activism and the institutionalisation of gender equality in public discourse.

I am currently pursuing a DPhil at the University of Oxford. My thesis, Ukrainian Women’s Almanacs as Nineteenth-Century Feminist Literature, re-evaluates the 1887 anthology Pershyi vinok (The First Wreath) as a foundational feminist text. Drawing on feminist literary criticism, canon theory, and microhistory, I investigate how its contributors negotiated identity, nationhood, and gender through literature, and why their voices have been largely excluded from both Ukrainian and global literary histories. I use decolonial feminist theory to challenge structural marginalisation and to reframe these writers as central to Ukrainian intellectual heritage.

My academic research is closely connected to my publishing work. In 2020, I co-founded Creative Women Publishing, the first feminist publishing house in Ukraine. We publish original work by Ukrainian women and translate key feminist texts into Ukrainian, including Mary Beard’s Women and Power: A Manifesto (2024). Through this work, I aim to broaden access to feminist discourse and contribute to the development of women’s literary voices in Ukraine.

In 2019, I implemented a project Pioneering Women in Ukraine, an international research and education initiative in partnership with Dr Margarita Vaysman and the University of St Andrews. The project established a network of scholars, educators, and cultural practitioners committed to recovering women’s histories and promoting gender equality. It has resulted in a digital archive, a reference volume, and public exhibitions, including one held at the University of Oxford in 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

I work across linguistic and cultural contexts to amplify historically overlooked voices and to support the building of feminist literary and intellectual infrastructure.

Conference papers:

  • Literature and Liberation: Ukrainian Feminist Voices of the 19th Century (6th International Conference GranaSlavic, University of Granada, Spain, 2025)

  • Natalia Kobrynska: Ukraine’s First Feminist and Her Legacy (ICCEES XI World Congress, University College of London, UK, 2025)