Marharyta Lymar

She holds two Master’s degrees with honours from Petro Mohyla University – in International Relations (2012) and Philology (2022). In 2019, she successfully defended her dissertation on “The American Factor in European Integration Processes during Barack Obama’s Presidency” (specialization 23.00.04, Political Problems of International Systems and Global Development). In October 2024, she was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor at the Department of English Philology and Translation of Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University.

Her teaching activities cover a wide range of courses in translation studies, philology, and international relations, and specialized courses on leadership and academic integrity. She also developed and taught the special course “The USA in the Foreign Policy of European Countries” for International Relations students.

Dr. Lymar is the author of around forty academic publications in political science, international relations, history, and translation studies, including four articles indexed in the Scopus database. Her research interests include U.S. and EU foreign policy (with a focus on the U.S. role in European integration), issues of national and international security, identity, as well as translation of socio-political and academic discourse.

Selected works (co-authored with Prof. Yuriy Kotlyar):

• “Pakistan–Ukraine: Analogies in the Triangles of Regional Security Complexes” (Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale, 2020).
• “Ukrainian Shield in Defense of European Civilization” (Eminak, 2023).
• “Ukraine as a Shield for Europe: The Russian Invasion and the Reshaping of International Security” (Acta de Historia & Politica: Saeculum XXI, 2025).

• 2022 — University of Bialystok (Poland), “Teaching and Research in a Contemporary University: Challenges, Solutions, and Perspectives.”
• 2023 — 180-hour internship at Swansea University (UK), focusing on Internationalisation of Higher Education and Modern Trends in the Development of Higher Education.
• July 2024 — specialization course at the Technical University of Gabrovo (Bulgaria): Methodology of Language Teaching (40 hours) and Innovative Technologies in Teaching (68 hours).
• 2024 — Erasmus+ DEFEP academic mobility in Chișinău (Moldova), “Distance Education: Course for University Teachers.”

• Jean Monnet Module “Implementation of European Values as a Basis of Democracy in Ukraine” (EVADEM).
• Erasmus+ KA2 “Distance Education for Future: Best EU Practices in Response to the Requests of Modern Higher Education Seekers and Labor Market” (DEFEP).
• Since 2025 — member of the editorial board of the academic journal American History and Politics (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv).

• TESOL-Ukraine (since 2024).
• Ukrainian Association for American Studies (since 2025).
• Co-author of the textbook “Ukrainian Language as a Foreign Language (based on materials from Mykolaiv Region)” (2023).

• Certificate of Appreciation from Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University “for conscientious and responsible performance of duties, high professionalism, and significant personal accomplishments under martial law” (2022).
• Certificate of Appreciation from the Department of Education and Science of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration (2023).
• Honorary Diploma of the Mykolaiv Regional Council “for her substantial contribution to the implementation of state policy in education, the training of highly qualified specialists and researchers, and her outstanding professionalism” (2025).