Elena A. Kostritsa

  EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

She graduated from the Faculty of Philology Gomel State University specialty "Belarusian language and literature" and postgraduate school at the State Scientific Institution "Institute of Arts, Ethnography and Folklore", National Academy of Sciences. In 2007 she defended her thesis on "Mythological representations in Belarus signs and beliefs about natural phenomena and human activities". Associate Professor of the Belarusian culture and folklore chair. Author of 58 publications.

RESEARCH AREAS

The signs and beliefs as a distinct genre of the Belarusian folklore and ethno-cultural texts as a unique phenomenon of the Belarusian folklore.