Alina Oprelianska

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Alina Oprelianska is a Junior Research Fellow and a PhD student at the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and a PhD student at the Department of Folkloristics at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, specializing in the field of Fairy Tale Studies, with a focus on gender aspects, customary law, folk beliefs and narratives. She was also a visiting researcher and Research Assistant at the University of Alberta, the Kule Folklore Center for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore (2022), and at Jagellonian University , Department of Pragmatics and Translation Theory (2023).
 

She was co-editor at the ISFNR Newsletter in 2021, and co-organizer of multiple conferences in 2021-2022. Alina Oprelianska is a grantee of PROM program (2023), ASEEES Ukrainian Travel Grant (2022), Voldemar Siimon Memorial Scholarship (2021), Mykhailo Hrushevskii Academic Scholarship (2020), Darmasiswa Scholarship (2012-2013). Also she was awarded Elis-Köngas Maranda GRADUATE PRIZE for the article "Marriage is Not Required: A Ukrainian Tale about ‘The Mare’s Head’ and Customary Law in Tale Type ATU 480 D*" Folklore, 133 (3), 2022.

Recent publications:
 

Oprelianska Alina (March 2023). ‘The Sealed Grave and Burial Rituals in the Context of Revenants in Ukrainian Belief’. Déjà Lu,11 (Re-published). URL: https://www.waunet.org/wcaa/dejalu/issue-11/. 

Oprelianska, Alina (2022). From History to Folklore and Back: Legends and Visual Narratives of Kyiv In War. ELM Scholarly Press, Tartu. ISBN 978-9916-659-34-2. URL: https://www.folklore.ee/pubte/eraamat/kiiev/. 

Oprelianska, Alina (2022). Marriage is Not Required: A Ukrainian Tale about ‘The Mare’s Head’ and Customary Law in Tale Type ATU 480 D*. Folklore, 133 (3), 289−310. DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2038949, URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0015587X.2022.2038949

Oprelianska, Alina (2021). ‘The Sealed Grave and Burial Rituals in the Context of Revenants in Ukrainian Belief’. Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, Vol. 15 (1): 27−49. https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/405. Elsevier − Scopus, Sciendo (De Gruyter Open).

Oprelianska, Alina (2021). ‘Femininity and Empowerment - Some Notes on Ukrainian Wonder Tales’. ISNFR Newsletter 8: 22−26. http://www.isfnr.org/files/Newsletter2021.pdf

Опрелянська, Аліна (2020). ‘Відьма – християнка? Наративи про смерть відьом у контексті обряду запечатування могили’. Фольклор. Література. Проблеми поетики, Вип. 47−48: 194−213. Наукова періодика України.

Academia.edu profile https://ut-ee.academia.edu/AlinaOprelianska