Olha Lihus is a musicologist, Ph.D. in Art Studies, and an Associate Professor at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University. In 1994, she graduated from the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music in Kyiv, Ukraine, and earned her Ph.D. in 2014. She is the author of the books Ukrainian Piano Music of the 19th – Early 20th Century in the Context of European Romanticism (2017, in Ukrainian) and Music in Choreography (2021, in Ukrainian), as well as over 40 scholarly publications in Ukrainian and English. Her research interests include Ukrainian Romanticism within the European cultural context and Modernist and Postmodern discourse in Ukrainian music of the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2023, Olha received a non-residential fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria. From October 2023 to March 2024, she was a visiting scholar at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.