Dr. Taras Shmiher

Citizenship: Ukrainian

Ethnicity: Ukrainian

Date and Place of Birth: October 4,1980, in L'viv, Ukraine

Gender: male

Family status: single

Mobile phone: (+380-67) 33 91 222

Email: t_shmiher@ua.fm, teres4ukr@yahoo.com

Web: shmiher.ho.ua

Position: Associate Professor in English and Translation, the Hryhoriy Kochur Translation Studies and Contrastive Linguistics Department, the Ivan Franko National University of L'viv

Office: Ukraine, 79000 L'viv, vul. Universytets'ka 1, avd. 314Г

Office phone: (+380-32) 2394-374

Fax: (+380-322) 72 79 76

Memberships and Awards: Full member of the Shevchenko Scholarly Society in L'viv, Ukraine (2015). Laureate of the Hryhoriy Kochur Literary Prize (2015)..

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Translation Studies (esp. History of Translation Theory; Translation Criticism); Cognitive Linguistics; English as a Foreign Language

EDUCATION

PhD Degree in Linguistics (Translation Studies), the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 2008.

[Dissertation: A History of Ukrainian Translation Studies in the 20th Century].

Specialist Degree in Linguistics, Translation, and TEFL, the Ivan Franko National University of L'viv, 2002, Cum Laude.

[Diploma Paper: The Song of Hiawatha in Translation: Imagery, Language, and Culture (Based on the Ukrainian and Russian Translations of The Song of Hiawatha by H.W. Longfellow)]

SCHOLARLY STAYS

- University of California, Berkeley (USA): Fulbright Scholar Award, September 2010 - May 2011.

- Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (Poland): Scholarship from the Jozef Mianowski Fund, May-July 2009.

- Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (Poland): Scholarship from the European College of Polish and Ukrainian Universities, March-May 2001.

EXPERIENCE

- Associate Professor in English and Translation, the Hryhoriy Kochur Translation Studies and Contrastive Linguistics Department, the Ivan Franko National University of L'viv (July, 2010, - present)

- Lecturer in English and Translation, the Hryhoriy Kochur Translation Studies and Contrastive Linguistics Department, the Ivan Franko National University of L'viv (November, 2006, - June, 2010)

- Postgraduate student, the Hryhoriy Kochur Translation Studies and Contrastive Linguistics Department, the Ivan Franko National University of L'viv (November, 2003, - October, 2006)

- Lecturer in English, the Foreign-Languages Department for Sciences, the Ivan Franko National University of L'viv (September, 2002, - October, 2003)

NATURAL LANGUAGES

Ukrainian (native language), Russian (bilingual), English (professional),

Polish (very good), French (very good), Belarusian (good),

German (elementary), Dutch (elementary), Arabic (elementary)