SCIENTIFIC SCHOOLS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WORLD LITERATURE OF H.S. SKOVORODA KHARKIV NATIONAL PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY: HISTORY AND MODERNITY

Abstract

History of the Department of World Literature of H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University dates back to 1805 – from the day the Pedagogical Institute was founded in the structure ofKharkovUniversity. It existed for more than a hundred years as part of the institute as a department of Russian literature. After the revolution of 1917, when the Kharkov Institute of Public Education was created, from 1924 to 1934 the department was headed by an outstanding scientist and literary critic then professor, and later academician Alexander Ivanovich Beletsky. The authors of the article pay special attention to the school of acad. A.I. Beletsky, who, with his many years of scientific and pedagogical activity, laid a solid foundation in the development of the science of literature inUkrainefor many decades to come. The authors connect the new, modern, stage in the research work of the department, in the activities of cathedral scientific schools with the beginning of the 1990s, when the so-called “perestroika” and the processes of democratization and publicity associated with it began, and when the university was created as much as possible favorable conditions for research work. It was then that a new generation of scientists and teachers came to the department, new leaders and new scientific schools appeared. This new stage in the history of the department is associated with the fruitful scientific, pedagogical and research activities of such scientists and their scientific schools, as Doctor of Philosophy, prof. L.G. Frezman (1935 - 2018), Doctor of Philosophy, prof. M.F. Getmanets (b. in 1923), Doctor of Philosophy, prof. E.A. Andrushenko (b.1968) and Doctor of Philosophy, prof. A.S. Sylayev (b. 1952). Over the years of stable work at the department, since 1978, graduate school and doctoral studies, the heads of the above scientific schools, as well as other teachers of the department have prepared more than 100 candidate and 14 doctoral dissertations. With its many years of fruitful activity, scientific schools of the Department of World Literature of H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University made a significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian literary Russian studies, to the training of language teachers, as well as young scientific personnel – candidates and doctors of sciences.