The main concern of the discussion platform ‘Woman in the West Literature: An Author, Heroine, and Researcher’ is to gain insight into the importance of women in the West European and North American literatures and their contribution into the literature-related research. It also focuses on how women are described and portrayed in literature and how the women’s images have changed throughout the history of literature: from building up and surmounting the gender stereotypes.Guest Speakers:Svetlana Nikolaevna Filyushkina, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Foreign Literature, Voronezh State University, VoronezhEkaterina Pavlovna Zykova, Doctor of Philology, Leading Research worker, Gorky Institute of World Literature, MoscowBoris Mikhailovich Proskurnin, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Department of world literature and culture, Perm State University, Perm