Researcher of Ukrainian military folklore of the modern and postmodern eras, Doctor of Philology. Leading Research Fellow of the Department of Social Anthropology of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, where she heads the Folkloristics Commission. Member of the Association of Oral Historians of Ukraine and the Folkloristics Commission of the International Committee of Slavists. She taught at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and also worked as a visiting professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Author of such scientific works as the collection “Strilets' Songs” (Lviv, 2005) and the monograph “Strilets' Songs: Folklorism, Folklorization, Folkloricity” (Lviv, 2009). Her research “Dramatic Being of a Person in Ukrainian Folklore: Conceptual Forms of Expression (Period of the First and Second World Wars)” (Lviv, 2018) was awarded the Filaret Kolessa Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
From 1992 to 2018, she actively participated in folklore and ethnographic expeditions in various regions of Ukraine (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Volyn, Chernivtsi, Khmelnytskyi regions) and the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of Poland. She is a participant in oral history projects dedicated to documenting testimonies about the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Born and lives in Lviv.
