The Department of Germanic Philology and Translation was established in 2016 as a result of the merger of the Department of Germanic Philology and the Department of Theory and Practice of Translation from German. From 2016 to 2021, the department was headed by Doctor of Philology, Professor M. Ivanytska. Since 2021, the department has been headed by PhD in Philology, Associate Professor O. Stasiuk. In the 2024/2025 academic year, the department employs 4 DScs (including 3 Professors), 17 PhDs (including 12 Associate Professors), 8 Assistant Professors, and 4 foreign lecturers.
Among the notable alumni who graduated from the predecessor department are literary scholar Prof. K. Shakhova, Dr. O. Shcherba – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Austria, Associate Professor I. Soiko – literary translator and simultaneous interpreter, awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Cavalry Cross).
The main areas of research over the years of the department’s existence are linguocultural studies, anthropolinguistics, translation and terminology studies, stylistics, lexicology and phraseology, ecolinguistics, pragmalinguistics, history of Ukrainian-German literary relations, genre studies, development of competencies of Germanists, media linguistics, discourse studies, cognitive linguistics.
The total number of scientific and educational and methodical publications of the department members from 2001 to 2024 exceeds 1600. Among them are monographs: “Methodology of Communication Studies” and “Anthropocentric Linguistics” by L. Sakharchuk, “Synergetics of Translation of Specialized Texts (German-Ukrainian Direction)” by M. Dorofeieva, “The Personality of the Translator in Ukrainian-German Literary Relations” by M. Ivanytska, “German Economic Discourse: Methodology, Models, Genres” by R. Pylypenko, “German-Ukrainian Legal Translation: Methodology, Problems, Prospects” by O. Shablii, “Argumentative Strategies in German Economic Discourse (based on the material of talk show genre)” by B. Malenkyi.
The most important projects of the last decade are connected to the long-term Institutional Partnership of Germanists, initially with the Herder Institute the University of Leipzig, and since 2017 with the Ruhr University of Bochum (Germany). This includes annual exchanges of students, PhD students, and lecturers; lecture series by invited professors, summer schools, and joint international conferences.
The department has a Center for German Language and Culture, which, in close cooperation with the department, organizes a number of educational and cultural events and publishes a student newspaper in German, “Die Brücke”.
The department provides specialized disciplines for the following educational programs: Bachelor’s degrees in Translation from German and English; German Philology and Translation, English Language; Swedish Philology and Translation,
English and a third Germanic language; Master’s degrees in Intercultural German
Studies (German and English), German Philology and Translation (Swedish and English), and Sectoral Translation from German and English; Intercultural Management.