Dr. Iryna Braha is Senior Researcher at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of the Ukrainian Language, Department of Stylistics, Language Culture and Sociolinguistіcs (since 2020). She was affiliated with Sumy State Pedagogical University, where she held the positions of Assistant (1999–2002) and Associate Professor (2002–2020) at the Ukrainian Language Department.

Dr. Braha’s scholarly contribution includes her PhD thesis on the language representation of the state’s image in the Ukrainian press (2002). Has authored numerous academic articles and co-authored monographs, as well as university student handbooks.

Main research interests lie in psycho- and sociolinguistics, with particular focus on language situation in Sumy region before and during the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, ethnolinguistic identity, oral and written everyday speech in the context of Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism, variability of bilingual speech, and Surzhyk.

Served as a co-executor of departmental research projects which deal with functioning of the Ukrainian as a state language in interaction with other languages of Ukraine, role of the Ukrainian language in consolidating Ukrainian society, dynamics of the language situation in Ukraine and its different regions during war period.

Dr. Braha’s expertise extends to sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and stylistics of the Ukrainian language. She was a jury member of the All-Ukrainian Student Research Competition in Sociolinguistics, held at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (2013–2016). She is a member of the editorial board of the annual scholarly volume “Dialog der Sprachen – Dialog der Kulturen. Die Ukraine aus globaler Sicht” (2018–2025), published following the annual conference at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

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