In Memoriam: Mark Sokolianskyi (1939–2025)

Authors

Nataliya Torkut Zaporizhzhia National University, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8905-6769
Daria Moskvitina Zaporizhzhya State Medical University, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9958-0962

Nataliya Torkut, Zaporizhzhia National University, Ukraine

Nataliya Torkut is D. Philol. Sci., Prof., and the Head of the Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre. She is Leading Research Fellow of Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Professor of Zaporizhzhia National University, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, as well as a Visiting Scholar at King’s College of London (01.10.2025–31.09.2028). She is an author of over 170 papers on Renaissance Literature, a member of the European Shakespeare Research Association, a member of the Board of The International Shakespeare Association. On 24.02.2022, she organized the volunteer group “Shakespeare” which has successfully worked for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and for civilians.
Daria Moskvitina, Zaporizhzhya State Medical University, Ukraine

Daria Moskvitina, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Zaporizhzhia State Medical University, an ESL teacher, and a translator. She specialises in translation studies, Shakespeare in translation, and the reception history of Shakespeare in Ukraine, and has published copiously on all three.