Ukrainian lecturers recommended by UI
Course |
Presenter |
Affiliation |
Topics |
History, anthropology, philosophy |
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| Eastern European history, XX century history, European history | Dr. Olena Betlii | Associate Professor at the Department of History of the National University “Kyiv Mohyla Academy” | Her research focus includes social history of Kyiv during the First World War and the Revolution; discourse practices in the European environment; policy of identities in the context of EU integration processes. She lectures courses on urban studies, on mental maps of European space, and the history of CEE countries of 1989-200 |
| Medieval History, Medieval Culture, Eastern European Christianity | Dr. Vadym Aristov | Senior Lecturer at the Department of History of the National University “Kyiv Mohyla Academy” | He is a researcher in the history of Kyivan Rus’ and chronicle writing. His sphere of scientific interests encompasses medieval history and culture, ethnicity and national studies, historiography and theory of history, and Indo-European studies. |
| Eastern Europe XX century history, Memory Politics, Soviet history | Dr. Oleksandra Gaidai | Postdoctoral Fellow Department of History in American University (Washington D.C.), Lecturer at the Department of History of the National University “Kyiv Mohyla Academy” | Gaidai specializes in memory studies and the contemporary history of Ukraine. Her dissertation, titled “Soviet Heritage in the Politics of Memory and Memories of Ukrainians (1991–2014)” analyses the remembering of the Soviet past by the Ukrainians, as well as the public opinion towards Lenin statues after the country gained independence. She published the “Stone Guest: Monuments to Lenin in Central Ukraine” in 2018. The book is written on the basis of the thesis and covers the topics of the policy of memory on such a controversial object of Soviet heritage as monuments to Lenin. She employs interdisciplinary approaches in studying memory politics in contemporary Ukraine. |
| Eastern European history, XX century history, History of architecture/urban planning | Dr. Sofia Dyak | Historian, researcher (2007-2010), director of the Center for Urban History and the head of the Foundation in Ukraine (2010-present) | Dr. Dyak was a fellow of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the Historical Dialogue and Accountability Program at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights of Columbia University, and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Dr. Dyak’s research interests include post-war urban recovery and transformation in Eastern Europe, heritage infrastructures and practices in socialist cities, and their legacies and public history. She curated exhibitions and educational projects related to rethinking the past, especially in urban public spaces. |
| Eastern European History, People and Culture of Eastern Europe | Prof. Gulnara Bekirova | Deputy Director of the Special Commission of the Kurultay for the Study of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People | Gulnara Bekirova is a historian, writer, and member of PEN International, hailing from the Crimean Tatar community. Her contributions as a historian include serving as a consultant during the production of the film “Haytarma.” With a keen focus on interethnic relations, Bekirova has authored numerous papers and books that delve into the experiences of deported Crimean Tatars and their struggles under the governance of the Soviet Union, Ukraine, and Russia. Her works provide valuable insights into the fate and resilience of the Crimean Tatars. |
| Anthropology, history of feminism, oral history, Gender interpretation | Prof. Oksana Kis | head of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (based in Lviv); 2022/23 Visiting Professor in the Anthropology department at The New School for Social Research | Prof. Kis is a feminist historian and anthropologist, head of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (based in Lviv). She is a President of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History, a co-founder and a vice-president of the Ukrainian Oral History Association.
Her expertise includes women’s history, feminist anthropology, oral history, and gender transformations in post-socialist countries. She has authored two books: Women in Ukrainian Traditional Culture in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries (2008, 2012, in Ukrainian) and Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (2017, 2020, English version 2021). |
| Easter European history and culture, History and culture of USSR | Dr. Olena Styazhkina | Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | Ukrainian writer, journalist, Professor of History, and member of the Ukrainian PEN. She is the founder of the civic movement “Deoccupation. Return. Education.” She has authored over ninety academic publications, published both in Ukraine and abroad, including “Women in the History of Ukrainian Culture in the Second Half of the 20th Century,” “A Person in the Soviet Province: Conquering (Dis)belief,” “The Stigma of Occupation: Soviet Women in Self-Reflection of the 1940s,” and others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5KbfaQRET8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbh08jxPYiw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc20Sr2kBAQ&list=PLpXNW3lwgte84SbwAezAM-PuGJpvv-iao&index=4 |
| Memory Studies, Mythology, History of ideas/philosophy | Dr. Natalia Kryvda | Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Philosophy and Culture, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv | Ukrainian philosopher and public intellectual, Ph.D., professor at the department of Ukrainian philosophy and culture at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She is also an academic director of MBA programs at Edinburgh Business School at House of Knowledge. Her sizeable body of work includes articles and essays which address history of culture, history of mythology, identity issues, and cultural memory.
Since 2014 – volunteer, chief expert of the Culture group of the Reanimation Package of Reforms. Since 2018 – an expert of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. Evaluates projects in various programs and sectors of the Foundation. |
Language and literature |
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| Sociolinguistics, Language Politics | Prof. Larysa Masenko | Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Language at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” and leading research associate of the Institute of Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. | She has been studying the problems of sociolinguistics since 1989. L. Masenko studies the language situation in Ukraine, questions of functioning and the state of the modern Ukrainian language in terms of the mass Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism, functioning of the mixed speech, and the specificity of the Soviet language policy in Ukraine and its consequences.
She is the author of more than 200 publications and such scholarly books as Hydrologic Names of Eastern Podillia (1979), Ukrainian Names and Surnames (1990), Language and Politics (1999, sec. edit. 2004), Language and Society (2004), Language Situation in Kyiv 2001, in co-authorship with H. Zalizniak). |
| Sociolinguistics, Protest studies, Language Politics | Dr. Nadiya Kiss | Research associate within the LOEWE research focus “Conflict Regions in Eastern Europe.”, Justus-Liebig Universitat Giessen | Her research interests encompass a range of topics including juristic terminology in Ukrainian, sociolinguistics, language policy, language of protests, and language and identity. With a particular focus on these areas, Dr. Trach’s research contributes to a deeper understanding of the intricate relationship between language, society, and conflict in Eastern Europe. Through her interdisciplinary approach and expertise in Ukrainian language and culture, she provides valuable insights into the dynamics of language in various contexts, enriching our understanding of sociopolitical complexities and promoting peaceful resolution in the region.
https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb05/slavistik/institut/mitarbeiter/trach |
| Eastern European Literature, XX cent literature, Theory of Literature | Dr. Rostyslav Semkiv | Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Director of Smoloskyp Publishers | Ukrainian writer, literary scholar, literary critic, translator, and publisher. Teaches courses such as “Literary Theory,” “Introduction to Comparative Literature,” “Contemporary Methods of Interpretation,” “Satire and Humor in European Literatures,” and “Literature of American Cyberpunk.” Was a member of the Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2016-2019). Member of the Ukrainian PEN. Promoter of reading and literature. Among his appearances:
https://www.youtube.com/@shaleniavtorky
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| Eastern European Literature, XX cent literature, Theory of Literature, Feminist interpretation, Decolonialism in literature interpretation | Prof. Roman Veretelnyk | Professor of Literary Studies at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” | творчість Лесі Українки, феміністичне прочитання української літератури, шістдесятники
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=597446808271345 |
| Eastern European Literature, XX cent literature, Theory of Literature, Feminist interpretation, Decolonial interpretation | Prof. Vira Ageeva | Professor of Literary Studies at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” | Ukrainian modernist writer, representative of intellectual prose, literary critic, holder of a doctoral degree in philology, and a laureate of numerous literary awards. Ageyeva’s work focuses on the issues of gender identity and the complexity of gender relationships as they are portrayed in literature. Her literary criticism evaluates from a psychoanalytical perspective the characters and traditional values as they conflict with contemporary context. She is interested in the 20th-century styles of Ukrainian prose of the 20th century, and particularly the Ukrainian writers who were part of the Executed Renaissance. |
| Eastern European History/Culture/Literature, Polish(-Ukrainian) History and culture | Prof. Ola Hnatiuk | Professor of History at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Center for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw. | Prof. Ola Hnatiuk is a Ukrainian studies scholar, translator, essayist, and writer, as well as a promoter of Ukrainian culture in Poland and Polish culture in Ukraine. She is the author of approximately 150 scholarly and popular-scientific publications.
Her latest book, “Odwaga i strach” (Courage and Fear), has been translated into Ukrainian and English. She is a member of the Polish PEN Club and Vice President of the Ukrainian PEN Club. література й ідентичність, польсько-український діалог, інтелектуальна історія ХХ-поч.ХХІ ст. |
| Modernism, Postcolonial and gender interpretation, XX cent literature, Populat culture. | Prof. Tamara Hundorova | Professor and head of the Theory of Literature Department at the Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and a professor and dean at the Ukrainian Free University | Literary critic, culture researcher, and author of numerous publications on contemporary and modern Ukrainian literature. Her scholarly works focus on contemporary Ukrainian literature, particularly in terms of its latest theoretical interpretations, including postmodernist, postcolonial, gender, and psychoanalytic perspectives. She has developed a concept for the development of Ukrainian modernism. The main themes of Tamara Gundorova’s works revolve around the transitions of new consciousness in the early 20th century, the “post-Chornobyl library” as a metaphor for Ukrainian postmodernism at the turn of the 21st century, melancholy, popular culture, and kitsch. |
| XX century literature and culture, History of avant garde movement (literature, theater) | Dr. Yaryna Tsymbal | Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature of the XX century Department | Literature critics and literature theorist, researcher of literature of the 1920s, Ukrainian avant-garde, author of the project “Our 20s”.
As part of the project, she compiled anthologies of Ukrainian prose from the 1920s and collections of individual authors, accompanied by prefaces and biographies of the writers. Thanks to the project, readers have been reintroduced to the works of popular authors from the 1920s, including Yuri Shovkopylas, Oles Donchenko, Hordiy Brasiuk, Valerian Polishchuk, Petro Vanchenko, Geo Shkurupiy, Oleksandr Mariamov, and others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjoCYaQoNBM&list=PLLBMxlRQfCFPejp0GVuZu3JQf8ceHyI8O |
Theater |
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| Eastern European Theater, Decolonialism in theatre interpretation | Maya Harbuzyuk | Doctor of Arts, Professor at the Department of Theater Studies and Acting, Acting Dean, Faculty of Culture and Arts at Ivan Franko Lviv National University | She teached at Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre and Cinema, and as well as her academic expertise in drama studies she has considerable experience in present-day theatre, having served as assistant to the literary director at the Mariia Zankovetska Lviv National Theatre for a decade. She has published over a hundred articles on modern drama and over fifty on theatre history, her research including pioneering work on the transmission of Hamlet across Eastern Europe. She has held research fellowships at a range of different institutions across Ukraine and Poland, and has served on the judging panels for awards including the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine and the Ivan Franko International Prize. |
| History of theatre in XX century, Modern theatre | Prof. Iryna Chuzhynova | Professor of Art Studies in Kyiv Municipal Academy of Circus and Performing Arts; Director of the Directorate of Culture and Arts, Ministry of Culture and Information Policy | Theater scholar, critic, curator of theater projects. From 2019 to 2021, she headed the analytical department of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. From 2014 to 2019, she was the chairperson of the NGO “Theater Platform.” Author of over 200 journalistic texts on Ukrainian and international theater processes in various publications. Co-author of analytical research papers such as “Ukrainian Theater: Path to Self” (2018), “Education for Cultural Managers: Current Situation and Development Perspectives” (2021), co-author of the modular program for secondary schools “Theater and Dramaturgy” (approved by the Ministry of Education and Science, 2020), and others. Teaches Fundamentals of Dramaturgy, History of Foreign and Ukrainian Theater, History of World Dramaturgy, History of Theater. |
| Modern drama, Genre history | Zhanna Bortnik | Associate Professor Of The Department Of Literary Theory And Foreign Literature At Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University | Researcher of modern drama and monodrama as a genre. |
Music |
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| History of Jazz | Okeksii Kogan | Member of the editorial board of “Jazz Square” magazine, representative of Ukraine in the European Jazz Federation, and member of the International Jazz Journalists Association. | Radio and TV host, music journalist, producer and art director. |
| History of music industry, Music and Politics, Performative practices, Decolonial music interpretation. | Olga Bekenstein | Curator of the jazz and educational programs at Closer and curator of the Am I Jazz Festival. | Olha Bekenshteyn is a music curator, art administrator, and DJ from Luhansk/Kyiv, Ukraine. She is the founder of the festival “Am I Jazz?” and co-founder of the non-profit organization OK Projects. Olha is also part of the team that manages the club/art center Closer in Kyiv, known for its internationally acclaimed electronic music festivals Strichka and Brave! Factory. Her curatorial approach focuses on interdisciplinary, multi-genre programs of contemporary music, presenting avant-garde art projects, and fostering experimental collaborations.
As a Fulbright Program scholar, she earned a Master’s degree in Arts Administration from the University of New Orleans in 2020. In her theoretical research, she explores decolonization, politically conscious performance, and ethics in the music industry. |
Film and Visual Arts |
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| History of Cinema, Cinema Genres | Prof. Larysa Bryukhovetska | Senior lecturer of the Department of Cultural Studies in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy | Film critic, film researcher, editor-in-chief of “Kino-Teatr” magazine, member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, recipient of the O. Biletsky Literary and Art Criticism Award (1994). |
| History of Cinema, Cinema Genres, History of Soviet cinema, Political dimention of cinema and visual arts | Dr Olga Bryukhovetska | Associate Professor of the Cultural studies department at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy | Specialist in cinema and visual culture with methodological ground in psychoanalysis and Marxism. Her research focuses on psychoanalytic film theory, and on Soviet and Japanese cinema.
She teaches courses on film theory and visual culture. She participated in the research and art projects Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe; Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989; Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine among others. She publishes on political dimensions of film and visual culture. |
| History of Eastern European culture/art, Avant garde history, Postmodernism | Prof. Diana Klochko | Department of Strategic Development at the Cultural and Arts Center of NaUKMA (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, PEN Ukraine member | She is a member of the Ukrainian section of the International Association of Art Critics AICA under the auspices of UNESCO. In 2019, she published the book “65 Ukrainian Masterpieces: Recognized and Implicit” about the history of Ukrainian art from the 7th century to the year before Independence, published by ArtHuss. She received the Yuri Shevelov Award for this book. |
| Theory of Art, Eastern European History, XX cent history | Lia Dostleva | Independent artist | Artist, cultural anthropologist, essayist. Her art and research practice engaged with the issues of collective trauma, Anthropocene, decolonial stories seen through multispecies entanglements, and agency and visibility of vulnerable groups. As an artist, she works across a wide range of media including photography, installations, textile sculptures, etc. Works with the topics of memory, trauma, emancipative and inclusive practices in art, Holodoomor. |
| Modern art, Decolonisation in art interpretation, Eastern European history and Culture/Art | Dr. Svitlana Berdiaeva | George F. Kennan Fellow at the Kennan Institute | Art historian, curator, and artist. Her current research focus is contemporary Ukrainian art, decoloniality, and Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine. She also works on selected topics in Eastern European and Latin American art. She holds a Ph.D. in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She is the editor of Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021 (2021) and co-editor of At the Front Line. Ukrainian Art, 2013–2019 (2020). In 2023, she will be the George F. Kennan Fellow at the Kennan Institute, Wilson Centre. Currently, she is working on a monograph, Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukrainian-Russian Case (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, forthcoming). |
| Eastern European Art history, Art history, Modernism | Dr. Vita Susak | Art Historian, Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Galery of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine | Independent scholar and member of the Swiss Academic Society for East European Studies. She is the author of numerous publications, among them two monographs: Ukrainian Artists in Paris, 1900–1939 (2010) and Alexis Gritchenko: Dynamocolor (2017).
Susak’s desired mission is to showcase the Ukrainian contribution to the School of Paris—to introduce the main artists of Ukrainian origin, to tell the stories of their lives, and to discuss their creative work. The main heroes of her narrative are Mykhailo Boichuk, Abraham Manevich, Alexander Archipenko, Sonia Lewitska, Sonia Delaunay, Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Chana Orloff, Alexis Gritchenko (Oleksa Hryshchenko), Vasyl Khmeluk, Michel Andreenko, Ivan Babiy, Mykola Hlushchenko, and Klyment Red’ko. https://independent.academia.edu/VitaSusak |
| Eastern European Art history, Art history, Modernism | Dr. Vasyl Kosiv | Associate professor, Lviv National Academy of Arts | Artist, art historian. Author of the book “Ukrainian Identity in Graphic Design 1945–1989”. He teaches the history of graphic design for undergraduate students and several theoretical disciplines for masters and graduate students. |
Political and Social sciences |
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| History of Civil society, Eastern European regional studies, Nationalism, Protest movements | Dr. Ivan Gomza | Head of the Department of Public Governance, Kyiv School of Economics | Dr Gomza’s scholarly interests comprise warfare, democratization, authoritarian regimes, nationalism, contentious politics, and good governance. He authored two books (the most recent title is The Republic of Decadent Days: Ideology of French Integral Nationalism in the Third Republic, Kyiv: Krytyka, 2021 was long-listed for Ukrainian PEN-club award) and articles on the Ukrainian nationalism, authoritarian politics, and social movements published, among other outlets, by Problems of Post-Communism, Journal of Democracy, and Nationality Papers. Dr. Gomza also sits on Communist and Post-Communist Studies journal editorial board. In addition, he teaches five academic courses at Kyiv School of Economics and Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and frequently gives public lectures. |
| History of Civil society, Eastern European regional studies, European Integration, Protest moveents | Dr Kateryna Zarembo | Associate fellow at the New Europe Center (Kyiv, Ukraine) Lecturer at the double-degree “German and European Studies” Master program, administered jointly by the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla” Academy (Ukraine) and Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany). | Dr Kateryna Zarembo is a social sciences scholar. Her research interests are international relations and civil society, with a focus on Ukraine. Current research projects: Post-doc project “A minority in one’s own state: the impact of the pro-Ukrainian social movements on the “Donbas” regional identity”; The interpretation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the academic and think-tank discourse; A study of the new trends in Ukraine’s civil society. |
| Gender transformation, Eastern European regional studies, Feminism | Dr. Tamara Martsenyuk | Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) | Her research interest relates to gender and social structure, among them women’s access to the military. In 2015-2021 Tamara (with the research team) conducted a sociological study called “Invisible Battalion” that demonstrated the successes and challenges of gender equality implementation in the Ukrainian armed forces, the status of female veterans, and the problem of sexual harassment in the military. |
| Nationalism, Migration studies | Dr. Danylo Sudyn | Associate Professor at Sociology Department (Ukrainian Catholic University), Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology (Institute of Ethnology,National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). | His research interests include historical memory, national identity, international migrations, history of Ukrainian sociology. |
| History of Civil society, Eastern European regional studies, Socio-political transformation in EE | Dr. Maksym Yakovlev | Head of Department of International Relations, Director of School for Policy Analysis at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy | His research interests include methodologies and methods of social reality cognition, the progress of humanity and socio-political transformations (especially in the post-Soviet space), problems of conceptualization of political phenomena, the connection between language and cognition. He also directs the analytical topics of the School of Political Analysis, which actively investigates the reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, analyses ways to counter populism and propaganda, studies domestic political processes in Russia through the Ukrainian prism, and more. |
| Social and cultural transformations in Eastern Europe | Dr. Anna Osypchuk | Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Director for Research at The School for Policy Analysis of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy | Her research focuses on the interplay of agency, cognition, social structures and culture; social and cultural transformations in post-Soviet countries; studies of identities and collective memory, thus spanning sociology, social and political philosophy, anthropology and cultural studies. |
| Gender transformation, Eastern European regional studies, Feminism | Dr. Oksana Dutchak | Deputy Director of the Center for Social and Labor Research, co-editor of the leftist journal Spilne | A sociologist and researcher in the fields of labor issues and gender inequality. Research interests: protests, workers’ protests, gender inequality, Marxism, Marxist feminism |