Shevchenko Studies at the T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine: Stages of Development(1926—2026)

Science editor:
Oleksandr Boron, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine

The team of authors:

Yurii Yakovych Barabash  (1931–2024), Doctor of Philology, professor, winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2004). Author of numerous works on literary theory and the history of Ukrainian literature, as well as   cultural studies publications in periodicals. Shevchenko studies occupied a prominent place in the scholar’s creative work.

Bondar Mykola Panteleymonovych, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Head of the Department of Classical Ukrainian Literature at the T. G. Shevchenko Institute of Literature, author of a monograph, two sections in the «History of Ukrainian Culture» in 5 volumes (2005, 2011; State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, 2014), scientific editor and co-author of the 3rd (2016) and 6th (2022) volumes of the «History of Ukrainian Literature» in 12 volumes, author of a number of articles in the «Shevchenko Encyclopedia» and over 200 other works published in scientific journals.
e-mail: bondarmykola@gmail.com
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8597-9611

Oleksandr Viktorovych Boron, Doctor of Philology, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Deputy Director for Scientific Work and Head of the Shevchenko Studies Department at the T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Executive Secretary of the six-volume academic Shevchenko Encyclopedia (2012–2015; State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, 2018), coordinator of a number of scientific and publishing projects of the Institute of Criticism (Kyiv) and the Institute of Source Studies of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in America (New York). Author of seven monographs and collections of articles, over two hundred articles in scientific periodicals.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1014-2219
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Research ID: https://ResearchID.co/oleksandrboron
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Alla Mykolayivna Kalynchuk, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Senior Researcher of the Shevchenko Studies Department at the T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Researcher of the history of Shevchenko studies and the artist’s biography. In 2000–2014, she was the scientific editor of a number of thematic chapters of the academic «Shevchenko Encyclopedia» in six volumes (2012–2015). Author of one monograph, a collection of articles and over 70 scientific publications in specialized periodicals. Editor of the scientific publication «Mykola Sumtsov. Shevchenko Studies» (2019).
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5450-4093
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Yevgeniia Mykhailivna Lebid-Hrebeniuk, Candidate of Philological Sciences (2010), researcher of the Shevchenko Studies Department at the T. H.  Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Author of the monographs «The metatext of Taras Shevchenko’s poetry and Ukrainian literature: ancient and new era» (Kyiv: Naukova dumka, 2012) and «The poetics of a variegated book: Taras Shevchenko’s journal in the context of 19th century diary literature» (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2025), as well as over 50 scientific publications devoted primarily to the work of Shevchenko and the literature of the Shevchenko’s time.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0010-8316
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Iryna Leonidivna Prylipko, Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor, senior researcher of the Shevchenko Studies Department at the T. H.  Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Author of two monographs, chapters in collective works, and over a hundred articles in scientific publications.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8743-7851
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Valeria Leonidivna Smilianska (1935–2023), Doctor of Philology, Honoured Science and Technology Figure of Ukraine. Laureate (as part of a team) of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology for six-volume academic Shevchenko Encyclopedia.  In 1966–2015, she worked at the Shevchenko Studies Department at the T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which she headed from 2001 to 2014.  Head of the scientific and publishing project «Shevchenko Encyclopedia» in six volumes and its scientific editor. Author of over 170 scientific publications, including four books, as well as chapters in a number of collective works by the Shevchenko Studies Department.

Nina Pavlivna Chamata, Candidate of Philological Sciences. Winner of the Ivan Franko Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Laureate (as part of a team) of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology for six-volume academic Shevchenko Encyclopedia. In 1961–2015, she was an employee of the T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Author of individual monographs and chapters in collective works, numerous articles.

REVIEWERS:

Yurii Volodymyrovych Peleshenko, medievalist, Doctor of Philology, leading researcher at the Department of Ancient Ukrainian Literature at the T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Author of three monographs and a number of articles, including studies on Shevchenko’s textual issues, motifs of ancient Ukrainian literature in the poet’s works, etc.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4859-8210 
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Volodymyr Trokhymovych Polishchuk, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Full Member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, Honored Education Worker of Ukraine, Head of the Department of Ukrainian Literature and Comparative Studies at Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Cherkasy National University; Director of the Cherkasy Research Center for Shevchenko Studies. Organizer of over 50 national and international scholarly conferences; editor of numerous scholarly collections and academic journals; author of six monographs, of «The Literary Encyclopedia of the Cherkasy Region» in three volumes, and over 800 publications, primarily in scholarly periodicals.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9090-8324
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Oksana Mykolaivna Slipushko, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of the History of Ukrainian Literature, Literary Theory, and Literary Creativity at Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Author of over 250 scholarly and educational-methodological works, including individual and collective monographs, anthologies, textbooks, teaching manuals, and articles published in Ukrainian and international peer-reviewed journals (including those indexed in Scopus and Web of Science).
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7401-7492
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