- Email:
- smelnyk@iu.edu
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
Svitlana Melnyk is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. She received her PhD equivalent degree from the Department of Philology at Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University. At IU, she teaches Ukrainian, Introduction to Ukrainian Culture and Russian courses. Svitlana specializes in sociolinguistics and bilingualism. She has co-authored the book Linguistic and Ethnic Diversity of Ukraine (2010, in Ukrainian) as well as a number of articles examining language policy in Ukraine. Her international teaching experience includes teaching the Ukrainian language in Ukraine, Hungary, Canada, and US.