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Sholodonova Zhanna Sergeevna

Leading Researcher, Literature Relations Department
Institute of Literary Studies named after Yanka Kupala,
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor
Tel.: +(375) 17 270-28-86
Email: mikmik43@gmail.com

Born on August 7, 1970 in the village of Sidorovka, Krasnopolsky district, Mogilev region. In 1987 she graduated from Krasnopolskaya secondary school, in 1992 – from the department of Belarusian and Russian language and literature of the Belarusian State University. She studied at the graduate school of the Yanka Kupala Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1992–1995).

In 1998, she defended her candidate’s dissertation “Forests of Chalavka, lands and fatherland in Yakub Kolas’s poem “New Land” (scientific supervisor - Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Doctor of Philological Sciences M. I. Mushinsky).

In 1999 she received a scholarship from the President of the Republic of Belarus for young scientists.

In 2003, she was awarded the prize of the presidents of the academies of sciences of Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova for the joint study “Cultural-historical Belarusian-Ukrainian connections: literary-moon aspect” as part of a Belarusian-Ukrainian creative group of employees of the Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

In 2019 – 2022 Studied doctoral studies at the Yanka Kupala Institute of Literary Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

Scientific research develops current issues of East Slavic literary and cultural interaction, and proposes a new reading of the Belarusian classics in a comparative context. Particular attention is paid to a comprehensive comparative typological analysis of symbolism, axiological content and semantic depth of key spatial images of East Slavic literature, revealing their visual potential in the transmission of spiritual culture, ideological, mental characteristics of the Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian peoples.
 
During the period of work at the Institute, the following research was carried out: “Yakub Kolas and Mikhaila Katsyubinskiy: the history of creativity” // research work “Cultural-historical Belarusian-Ukrainian connections: literary-cultural aspect” (1996–1999); “Taras Shauchenka and Belarusian literature from the beginning of the 20th century.” // Research work “Belarusian literature and the cantex of Slavic literature” (2000–2003); “The poems of Yanka Kupala and Taras Shauchenko on the cantex of European philosophies” // Research Institute “European philosophies and Belarusian literature of the 19th – 20th centuries.” (2003–2006); “Natural-river space in the works of Y. Kolas, M. Gogal and T. Shauchenko” // Research “Belarusian and European Literatures in the Agul Pastor of Maral Kashtounians” (2007–2010), “Master-shaped Paradigm stored in Belarusian and Ukrainian literatures pershai palovy XX century.” // Research work “National types of mentality in Belarusian and European literatures: idea-aesthetic specificity, style evolution, translational interpretation” (2011–2015), “Ukrainian discourse” ў Belarusian literature of the 20th century.” // Research work “Belarusian-European literary connections and imagination: myths, stereotypes, reality” (2016–2020).
 
Acted as a project manager for projects carried out with the support of the BRFFR “Taras Shauchenka and Belarus: theoretical-analytical, scientific-biblical-graphic aspects of research (materials for the “Shauchenka Encyclopedia”)”, “Prestorative-hour images of the Belarusian-Slavs” skim literary discourse”, responsible executor Research work “The Paradigm of Radzima in the Works of Taras Shauchenko and the Belarusian Literature of the 19th – Part of the 20th Centuries.” and “Historical features and developments in Belarusian literature from the 12th century to the beginning of the 21st century: art-like and genre-style specificity of interpretation.”
 
She was a member of the teams of authors preparing articles for the encyclopedia “Maxim Bagdanovich” (Minsk, 2012) and the Shevchenko encyclopedia in 6 volumes (Kyiv, 2012-2015).
 
Author of more than 170 scientific papers.
 
Sphere of scientific interests: comparative studies, study of Belarusian classics in the context of East Slavic literatures, study of the poetics of space, the specifics of the artistic and figurative embodiment of the national character of the Belarusian.
 
Main publications:
  1. Shaladonava, J.S. Farbs of life and life in Yakub Kolas’s poem “New Land” / Zh.S. Shaladonava. – Minsk: Belarus. Navuka, 2002. – 140 p.
  2. Shaladonava, J.S. Spiritual spectra of Agnu: Taras Shauchenka and Belarusian literature from the 20th century. / J. S. Shaladonava. – Minsk: Belarus. Navuka, 2009. – 193 p.
  3. Shaladonava, J. S. Prastor and Chalavek: ancient non-Slavic literary projects / J. S. Shaladonava. – Minsk: Belarus. Navuka, 2023. – 262 p.
  4. Shaladonava, J.S. Yakub Kolas and Mikhaila Katsyubinsky: typology of creativity / J. S. Shaladonava // Narys of Belarusian-Ukrainian literary ties: cultural-historical and literary-scientific aspects of the problem; navuk. ed.: M. A. Tychyna, U. I. Markhel. – Minsk: Belarus. Navuka, 2002. – pp. 64–137.
  5. Shaladonava, Zh. S. Ukrainian discourse in the Belarusian literature of the 20th century / Zh. S. Shaladonava // Belarusian-European literary connections and imagination; navuk. ed.: U. V. Gnilameda, M. U. Mikulich. – Minsk, 2022. – pp. 147–212.
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