The history of the Department dates back to 1962, when the Translation Division was established at the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology. The Department of Theory and Practice of Translation was established in 1971, and on its basis the Department of Theory and Practice of Translation from Germanic Languages was formed in 1982, with Professor O. Semenets as its first head.
In 2003 the Department of Theory and Practice of Translation from English was created on the basis of the Department of Theory and Practice of Translation from Germanic Languages. From 1996 to 2010, the department was headed by Doctor of Philology, Professor V. Karaban; from 2010 to 2018 by Doctor of Philology, Professor L. Kolomiets; from 2018 to 2023 by Doctor of Philology, Professor L. Slavova; from 2023 to 2024, by PhD in Philology, associate professor O. Pidhrushna; from 2024, by PhD in Philology, associate professor S. Skrylnyk.
The academic staff of the Department includes 4 Doctors of Philology, 21 PhDs and 5 lecturers.
The Department’s academic staff is successfully developing the research topic ‘Current Issues in Interpretation, Specialized and Literary Translation, and Their Teaching Methodologies’. Over the past 20 years, the Department’s members have published more than 1,100 scientific and educational works.
In cooperation with other structural units of the Institute of Philology (the Department of Germanic Philology and Translation, the M. Zerov Department of Theory and Practice of translation from Romance Languages), international organizations (Ivan Franko International Foundation), and international partners (EU Project “Support to the Implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement”) the Department organized two international conferences: “Translation and Language: Comparative Studies” (March 27-28, 2019) and “Translation Industry: Theory in Action” (December 11-12, 2020).
The Department is a graduating department for three educational programs: one bachelor’s program in Translation from English and Western European Languages and two master’s programs Translation and Interpretation from English and a Second Western European Language, Literary Translation from English, Literary Editing and Translation Project Management.
At different times, the department has been staffed by
- Olesia Borysova
- Nataliia Hach
- Ruslana Dovganchyna
- Olena Dubenko
- Lada Kolomiets
- Nataliia Mikhnenko
- Borys Nechyporenko
- Myroslava Nechyporenko
- Roksolyana Radchuk
- Liudmyla Rudko
- Vitalii Radchuk
- Viktoriia Masanovets