People

I am professor with Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University (Ukraine). Through my career, I have worked on the relationship between ideology and culture focusing on the following topics: Ukrainian modernist writings; the art under Soviet rule; the socialist realist canon in Ukrainian and Russian literatures; representation of communism in museums of Central and Eastern European countries. I am the author of two books, six textbooks and more than one hundred articles published in Ukrainian and international journals such as Nationalities Papers, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Krytyka and other.

Publications

Books
2011
Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s Novel “Notes of the Snub-Nosed Mephistopheles”: Generics, Semantic Sphere and Imagology  (in Ukrainian), Nizhyn. 

2009
Socialist Realist Canon in Ukrainian Literature: Genesis, Evolution, Modification ​(in Ukrainian), Nizhyn. (laureate of the Book of the Year Prize in 2010 in the category of Literary Studies)

Book Chapters
2020
’Between Two Powers: Nationalist vs. Bolshevik in Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s Works about the Ukrainian Revolution’ In: Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn, edited by Alessandro Achilli, SerhyYekelchyk and Dmytro Yesypenko, 410–424 (Academic Studies Press)

2018
’Ukrainian Literature of the Late Soviet Period: The History of Three Generations of Poets’ In: The Literary Field under Communist Rule, edited by Aušra Jurgutienė and Dalia Satkauskytė, 161-180 (Academic Studies Press).

Articles (selection)
2023
’”Bykivnia is Extremely Important in the Search for Our Identity”: Martyrological Landscape of Remembrance and Problems of the Victimhood Narrative’  Nationalities papers (First View) 1-24.

2021
’Reconstructing the past: narratives of Soviet occupation in Ukrainian museums’ Canadian Slavonic papers 63(1-2): 148-167 

’Chornobyl Revisited’ (in Ukrainian) Krytyka 5-6: 22-29

2018
’Museumification of the Soviet Past in the Context of Ukrainian Memory Politics’ Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 4(1): 213-242.

’“Ukrainian History Should Be Read with Bromine”: Vynnychenko’s Image of the Ukrainian Revolution. Chapter 2’ (in Ukrainian), Word and Time 1:  27-37

‘”Ukrainian History Should Be Read with Bromine”: Vynnychenko’s Image of the Ukrainian  Revolution. Chapter 3.’ (in Ukrainian), Word and Time 2:  56-66

2017
’“Ukrainian History Should Be Read with Bromine”: Vynnychenko’s Image of the Ukrainian  Revolution. Chapter 1’ (in Ukrainian) Word and Time 12:  3–15

 ’Artistic Versions of World War II in Ukrainian Socialist Realist Literature (1941-1943)’ Literature and Culture of Polissya. Collection of Research Articles 86: 125-139

2016
’Soviet Legacy as an Object of Memory Policy in Ukraine: A Case Study of Museum Sphere.’ (in  Ukrainian) Agora, 17 ’25 Years of Ukrainian Independence: Challenges of State Building’: 75–86

2015
’Museums of Communism in the Context of Polish Museum Politics’ (in Ukrainian) Agora 14 ’Museums and Cultural Diplomacy’: 16–32

2014
’Aesthetical and Ideological Strategies of New Ukrainian Literature’ Literature and Culture of Polissya: Collection of Research Articles 75: 141-149