Dr. Olena Saikovska, a PhD in Literary Studies, is a specialist in Ukrainian and Bulgarian studies. She was an Associate Professor at Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine (2014-2022), and a fellow of the University of Tübingen: Research@Tübingen Program (2022, 2023), the Athene Program (2024-2025), and the DAAD (2022, 2023).
Since October 2023, she has been leading the project "Ukrainian Studies" as a visiting professor at the Slavic Department of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (2023-2025). She teaches courses on Ukrainian language, Ukrainian literature and Slavic literatures.
Her research interests include postcolonial studies in contemporary Ukrainian literature and Slavic literatures, memory and trauma studies, as well as teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language.
- Olena Saikovska. Amadoka (2020) by Sofia Andrukhovych as an Archeological Novel about Memory / Voicing Memories, Unearthing Identities. Studies in the Twenty-First-Century Literatures of Eastern and East-Central Europe. / Series in Literary Studies. 2023. Vernon Press, pp. 221-226.
- Saikovska Olena. Narrating the War in Ukrainian Literature (2014-2023). Вісник Маріупольського Державного Університету. Серія: Філологія, 2024, Вип. 30. С. 44-60. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-3055-2024-17-30-44-59
- Olena Saikovska. War in Ukraine: A Push for Reshaping German Slavic Studies. Theory and Practice of Teaching Ukrainian as a Foreign Language. 2024. Issue 18, pp. 310-322. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/ufl.2024.18.4417
- Olena Saikovska. The transformation of the image of an infidel in G. Stoev’s novel «The Price of Gold» / Wielkie religie świata w języku i kulturze: Chrześcijaństwo. Judaizm. Wspólne Dziedzictwo. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego Gdańsk 2023, pp.155-166.
