Vira Ageyeva
Vira Ageyeva | |
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Віра Павлівна Агеєва | |
| Born | Vira Pavlivna Ageyeva 30 July 1958 |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Other names | Vira Aheyeva, Vira Ageeva |
| Alma mater | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv |
| Occupation(s) | literary critic, philologist |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Awards | Shevchenko National Prize (1996) |
Vira Ageyeva (Ukrainian: Віра Павлівна Агеєва, born 1958) is a Ukrainian literary critic and philologist. In 1990, she and other scholars established the first feminist seminars in the country as an initiative of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and she was a co-founder of the Kyiv Institute for Gender Studies in 1998. She was honored as a joint winner of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1996 and the Petro Mohyla Prize, an award given by Academic Council of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, in 2008.