Natalia Gavdyda is an educator, scientist, public figure. Author of the monograph “Literary and painting discourse of Bohdan Lepky’s creativity”, co-author of the textbook “Ukrainian language for foreigners. Level B1-B2”, and more than 60 publications (individual and co-authored) on the methodology of teaching the Ukrainian language, linguicide as a form of language policy, the philosophy of the Ukrainian mentality and the interaction of arts. Laureate of the All-Ukrainian Literary and Art Award named after Brothers Bohdan and Levko Lepky.
She received two higher educations at Ternopil National Pedagogical University named after Volodymyr Hnatyuk: teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, as well as teacher of English as a foreign and foreign literature. Studied at the graduate school of the Ukrainian Studies Center of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where in 2008 she defended her thesis for the title of candidate of philological sciences (in comparative literature).
She worked as a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature at the Ivan Franko Ternopil Gymnasium, as a teacher of English as a foreign language (part-time) at the Christian college “Znamennya” in Zarvanytsia, Ternopil region. The main place of work was the Ternopil National Technical University named after Ivan Pulyu, where she started working in 2007 as the deputy director of the Center for International Activities, Information and Marketing and ended in 2022 as an associate professor of the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Languages.
Active in public life. Since 1993, there is a state cultural and educational society “Vertep”, which was the first youth organization of a democratic direction in Ternopil (members of this society revived Plast and SUM in the region). For more than 25 years, she sang in the church choir of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Ternopil. She participated in several other charity projects. accordingly, she was the coordinator and teacher of the All-Ukrainian of the volunteer project “Free Ukrainian language courses”, participated in the work of summer camps for orphans (led a singing workshop) of the Canadian-Ukrainian project “Children’s Friends”. She also taught Ukrainian language and culture to American Peace Corps volunteers for ten years, revealing to them the unique features of the Ukrainian world.