Tutor in Health and Social Care

Olena is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator with a PhD in British Literature and an extensive experience in research project management.

In her past teaching roles, she delivered seminars on forced displacement, memory and trauma, gender in media and culture. She also taught academic skills workshops at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

She is convinced that creativity and flexible teaching approaches are key to facilitating learning and encouraging students to engage with the material in thoughtful and critical ways.

Olena took up her position as Tutor in Health and Social Care in 2021 and she enjoys delivering seminars across various units and supporting students on their academic journey.

Other References

• · uk.linkedin.com/in/olena-lytovka
• · twitter.com/olenalytovka

Qualifications

• Certificate Global Health Governance: Addressing Globalisation and Health Inequities - St George’s University of London
• PhD British Literature – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
• MA English and French – Zaporizhia National University

Teaching Expertise

• Narratives of displacement
• Memory and psychoanalysis
• Gender, culture and society
• Globalisation and health inequities
• Developing academic skills

Research Interests

• Forced displacement
• Gender division in care
• Memory and trauma
• Interdisciplinarity in academic practice

Projects

• Stay-at-home fathers and the gendered division of care (2019-2020)
• The place of memory and the memory of place: a psychoanalytic investigation (2014-2016)
• Memory and oblivion: forced displacement during and after World War II (2010-2012)

External Roles

• Head of London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
• Advisory Board member at Universale Biblion
• Reviewer at Interdisciplinary Discourses

Publications

• Gunesch, K., Lytovka, O., Tryniecka, A., eds. (2018) Crossing Borders in Gender and Culture, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Lytovka, O. (2016) The Uncanny House in Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main.
• Koziura, K. and Lytovka, O., with Illic M. (2016) “The Postwar Forced Displacements: Female Voices”. The Soviet past in the post-socialist present: methodology and ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European oral history and memory studies, ed. by M. Illic and D. Leinarte, Routledge.
• Lytovka, O., ed. (2016) The Place of Memory and Memory of Place, IRF Press, Warsaw.
• Lytovka, O. (2025) “‘Suffering from Reminiscences’: Memory and Trauma in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Fiction”. Psychoanalysis: Philosophy, Art and Clinic, ed. by Davis Henderson, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Lytovka, O. “Memory and Awareness: Female Voices of Jugów/Hausdorf”. Jugów. Memory and Oblivion, eFKa, Krakow.

Contact Details

E: olena.lytovka@beds.ac.uk