Oksana Kuzmenko is a philologist and folklorist holding a doctoral degree in philology. She serves as a senior researcher at the Social Anthropology Department of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her research focuses on the theory and history of folklore-literary relations, Ukrainian and regional folklore of the 20th century. She is particularly interested in multi-genre works with socio-historical themes, such as shooter and rebel songs, oral narratives about the First and Second World Wars, collectivization, famines, and evictions.