DEPARTMENT OF WORLD LITERATURE AND POLONISTICS

From the beginning of the foundation of Drohobych Pedagogical Institute (1940), the teaching of Ukrainian and world foreign was provided by the united Department of Literature, headed by the senior lecturer Mykola Domnytskyi. In 1954, the department was divided into two independent structural units. The newly formed educational structure, whose members taught world literature, was headed by Associate Professor Yevhen Chernytskyi. After him, for 10 years the department, which was called the Department of Russian and World Literature, was headed by Associate Professor Viktor Auderskyi. In the early 1970s, the department was headed by Professor Liudmyla Krasnova. For a long period of time, the department was headed by Associate Professor I. Trofimov. In the mid-1980s, the department was headed by Associate Professor L. Nikolska, followed by Professor Mark Golberg. Under Prof. Golberg’s leadership, the department was renamed ‘World Literature’. In September of 1992, Associate Professor Myron Boretskyi became the Head of the Department. In February of 1999, the philological centre was headed by Professor Lesia-Roma Kravchenko. During her tenure, the department was merged with the Department of Slavic Languages, headed by Associate Professor Olena Kutsyk, and renamed the Department of World Literature and Slavic Studies. After the structural reorganisation carried out at the University in 2022, the Department was renamed the Department of World Literature and Polonistics and was headed by Professor Halyna Sabat.