PhD in Linguistics

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Biography:

• In 2005 graduated from Odessa National University named after
• I.І. Mechnikov, «English language and literature» specialty;
• From 2006 to 2020, worked as a laboratory assistant, lecturer, senior lecturer on the Department of Foreign Literature;
• Since 2010 works as a lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literature;
• In 2013 defended PhD thesis on «The Holocaust Motif in Recent American and Russian Literature (W. Styron, J. Foer, A. Kuznetsov,
• V. Grossman)», (specialty 10.01.05 – Comparative Literature) at the National Dnipropetrovsk University named after Oles Honchar.
• In 2020 received the academic title of associate professor of the Foreign Literature Department
• Trauma and memory as socio-cultural markers of contemporary literature (second half of the 20th - first third of the 21st century..)

Educational activities:

• History of foreign literature. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance (RGF Faculty and Philological Faculty)
• History of foreign literature (17th–18th centuries). The era of Classicism, Baroque and Enlightenment (RGF Faculty and Philological Faculty)
• The modern American novel (the second half of the 20th, the first third of the 21st century) (RGF Faculty)
• Newest foreign literature for master's students (RGF Faculty)
• Genres typology and poetics of in the literary discourse (the second half of the 20th and the first third of the 21st century) for graduate students
• Supervises the students’ school teaching practice and the assistantship of masters at the department.
• Guidance on course papers and master's theses.

Membership in associations: Full member of the scientific organization "Center for Ukrainian-European Scientific Cooperation

Full member of the scientific organization: European Association for Jewish Studies

Fellowships and grants:

1. 02/ 2020 at Polonia Academy in Czestochowa (Czestochowa, Poland)
2. 11/2022 – 04/2023 at Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) (Vienna, Austria)
3. 08/2023 – Ukraine Nonresidential Scholars Program at Indiana University (Bloomington, USA)
4. 02/2024 – 11/2024 – University of Alberta (Canada).

Areas of scientific interests: American literature, comparative studies Holocaust literature, memory and trauma literature.

Methodological works

1. Bezhan O. Western European literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. Classicism. Baroque. Enlightenment. Odesa: Bukayev Vadim Viktorovych Publisher, 2024. 115 p. (electronic edition) URL: https://onu.edu.ua/pub/bank/userfiles/files/edu-programm/rgf/035_filologiya_phd/bezhan_oa_posibnyk_17-18_st.pdf
2. Bezhan O. Modern American novel (end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st century). Part II. Odesa: Vadim Viktorovych Bukaev Publisher, 2024. 70 p. (the edition is changed and supplemented) URL: https://onu.edu.ua/pub/bank/userfiles/files/edu-programm/rgf/035_filologiya_phd/bezhan_oa_posibnyk_lit_ssha.pdf
3. Literature of the European Middle Ages and the Renaissance: a methodological manual for applicants of the first (bachelor's) level of higher education in the specialty 035 Philology / compiled by L.I. Voitenko, O. A. Bezhan. Odesa: Publisher Bukayev Vadim Viktorovych, 2025. 94 p. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vnf5oPm371DSlyxBGTrF9YfHaXSeRDKc/view?usp=drive_link

Main publications:

1. Bezhan O. The artistic method of J. Kerouac in the novel “On the road”. Scientific Journal of Polonia University. Czestochowa 2020. 38 (1- 1). S. 6–12. Фахове видання.DOI: https://doi.org/10.23856/3801
2. Bezhan O. Poetyzatsiia budennosti v romani Enn Tailer «Katushka synikh nytok». Aktualni pytannia linhvistyky ta metodyky vykladannia inozemnykh mov: zb. materialiv VIII mizhnar. nauk.-prakt. konf., prysviachenoi pamiati doktora pedahohichnykh nauk, profesora V.L. Skalkina (12 kvitnia 2022 roku). Odesa : ONU imeni I.I. Mechnykova, 2022. S. 175-179
3. Bezhan O.A. «Literatura faktu» v amerykanskii prozi druhoi polovyny KhKh stolittia: do teorii pytannia. Aktualni pytannia humanitarnykh nauk: mizhvuzivskyi zbirnyk naukovykh prats molodykh vchenykh Drohobytskoho derzhavnoho pedahohichnoho universytetu imeni Ivana Franka. Drohobych : Vydavnychyi dim «Helvetyka», 2023. Vyp. 60. Tom 1. S. 129 – 133.
4. Bezhan O. «An ordinary American» in J. Updike’s short stories. Periodyk Naukowy Akademii Polonijnej, Częstochowa, 2023. 56 (1), S. 21-26. http://pnap.ap.edu.pl/index.php/pnap/article/view/1031
5. Bezhan O. Visualizing trauma: the Holocaust representation through the prism of experimental prose. Закарпатські філологічні студії. Видавничий дім «Гельветика», 2023. T1. С. 199-204. URL: hurnal.uzhnu.uz.ua/archive/32/part_1/38.pdfttp://zfs-jo
6. Bezhan O. Travma ta posttravmatychnyy syndrom v amerykanskiy literaturi pershoyi polovyny KhKhI st.. : komparatyvnyy dyskurs. Aktualni pytannya humanitarnykh nauk. Drohobych: Vydavnychyy dim «Helvetyka», 2024. Vyp. 78. Tom 1. S. 163–168. URL: http://www.aphn-journal.in.ua/archive/78_2024/part_1/24.pdf (fakhove vydannya) 7.
7. Bezhan O. Dyskurs konsyumeryzmu v romani Dzh. Franzena «Korektury». Zakarpatski filolohichni studiyi. Zakarpatski filolohichni studiyi. 2025. Vyp. 44. S. 45 – 51