Fellows for Academic Year 2012-2013

This research project will expand upon prior PhD research that focuses on the embodiment of dominant stereotypes of otherness in two Ukrainian borderland collectivities: the Tatars of Crimea, and the Hutsuls of the Carpathian Mountains. Hutsuls embody...

Bartolini plans to make a detailed study of H.S. Skovoroda’s language. She will examine the stylistic and functional distribution of its three different components: Church Slavonic, Russian, and Ukrainian. Particular focus will be placed on the...

Her research will look at the art of dissimulation in Ruthenian intellectual culture on the verge of the 16- 17th centuries. Ivanova plans to study the causes which brought the art of dissimulation to life in Ruthenia, analyze its peculiarities, and...

Hrycak intends to focus on women's activism in contemporary Ukraine. Her research will go beyond the familiar debates concerning the weakness of post-communist civil societies by offering an alternative model of civic engagement based not on NGOs but on...

Research will be devoted to the formation of new models of historical memory in contemporary Ukraine concerning events of World War II. New models result from the controversial and complex deconstruction of old historical myths, and the emergence of new...

This research project will expand upon prior PhD research that focuses on the embodiment of dominant stereotypes of otherness in two Ukrainian borderland collectivities: the Tatars of Crimea, and the Hutsuls of the Carpathian Mountains. Hutsuls embody...

Mayerchuk notes that the process of mass modernization in East/Soviet and Western Ukraine during the period from 1890s to 1930s resulted in rapid changes in private life and the emergence of modern sexuality.
Her research will focus on the processes of...

The purpose of the proposed research is a synthetic and multi-dimensional investigation of the impact of modernist and postmodernist strategies about the discourse of masculinity in conceptualization and introvertisation of Ukrainian national-cultural...

Fedoruk’s aim is to study English language textual theory and practice in literature in relation to the works of Kulish (in particular, his novel The Black Council) and the poetry of Shevchenko. Fedoruk observes that in many cases today the theory of...