Olha Polishchuk has a Ph.D. in Literary Theory (Ukraine, 2016). 2017 – 2019 she participated in the research “Writer-Intellectual in the Migration Processes: Challenges for Memory and Identity” (Ukraine). In 2019 she was the head of the scientific project “Memory Model in the Ukrainian Modern and Postmodern Literature” (A grant from the President of Ukraine). In 2022 – 2023 she researched the conceptualization of borders in literary discourses within the project “Borders in Crisis: Discursive, Narrative, and Mediatic Border Struggles in Ukraine, Europe, and North America” (Volkswagen Fond, Germany). Currently, she is a visiting researcher at Saarland University and is involved in the projects “Documenting Ukraine: Digital War Diaries”, “Border Chronotopes”, and others.