Oksana Danylevska holds a Doctor of Philology degree and works in the Department of Stylistics, Language Culture, and Sociolinguistics at the Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Her candidate (PhD) dissertation, which formed the basis of her first monograph Language in Revolution and Revolution in Language: The Language Policy of the Central Rada, the Hetmanate, and the Directorate of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (Kyiv: Heneza, 2009, 176 p.), defined the range of sociolinguistic issues that have remained central to her scholarly work. These include language policy and legislation, language education, and language rights.
Dr. Danylevska also works in the field of age-related sociolinguistics, particularly focusing on the language behavior of contemporary Ukrainian adolescents. She studies the manifestations of post-totalitarian distortions in the current language situation in school education—specifically in students’ language practices, teachers’ everyday language use, and the discourse of school textbooks. The results of this research are presented in her monograph The Ukrainian Language in Ukrainian Schools at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Sociolinguistic Essays (Kyiv: Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Publishing House, 2019, 364 p.). In 2020, she defended her doctoral dissertation titled The Language Situation in Ukrainian School Education at the Beginning of the 21st Century.
In researching the language situation in education, Dr. Danylevska seeks to ensure that her findings have practical application. For many years, she has combined academic research with teaching and methodological work. She is the author of several innovative textbooks and teaching manuals recommended for use in general secondary education institutions.
Dr. Danylevska is also a co-author of several collective volumes, including Territorial and Sociocultural Conditions of the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language in Ukraine (section: “Territorial Features of the Language Situation in Ukrainian School Education”) (2023) and The Ukrainian Ethnolinguistic Continuum in the Context of Russia’s War Against Ukraine(section: “The Language Situation in Ukraine During the War: Trends, Contradictions, Paradoxes”) (2024).
She actively participates in international research projects, including those funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2016–2019; 2020–2022) and the Ukrainian Scholars Program at Indiana University (USA) (2023–2024). Since 2022, she has been a member of the Commission on Sociolinguistics of the International Committee of Slavists.
