Usova Oksana Olegovna
BIOGRAPHY
She was born in Makeyevka, Donetsk region, on May 10, 1964.
In 1979, she graduated from Makeyevka comprehensive school No. 42. From 1979 to 1983, she studied at the Makeyevka Pedagogical College. In 1992, she graduated from Donetsk State University with a degree in Ukrainian Language and Literature, qualification: Philologist. Teacher of Ukrainian Language and Literature.
In 2007, she defended her dissertation “Onomasticon of N. Khvylovyi’s works of art” at Donetsk State University and received a candidate of philological sciences degree, and in 2013, the title of associate professor.
From 2017 to 2018, she studied at professional retraining courses under the program «Teaching Russian Language and Literature in Educational Organizations» at the State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education «Donetsk National University».
She began her scientific and pedagogical activity in 1995 at the Makeyevka Economics and Humanities Institute at the Department of Philology and Artistic Culture. In 2008, she transferred to the Donetsk State University of Management (renamed in 2014 Donetsk Academy of Management and Public Administration), where she worked as an associate professor at the Department of Ukrainian Studies (renamed in 2014 to Local History), and since 2014 — the head of the department. Since April 2024, she began working as an associate professor at the Department of Humanities, and since September of this year I have been heading the Department of Russian, Foreign Languages and Speech Culture.
I am the author of more than 70 publications, including more than 50 scientific articles.
Research interests: onomastics, onomasiology, poetic onomastics, speech culture, legal linguistics.