Bohdan Tokarskyi

Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Bohdan Tokarskyi
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Barker Center, Room 31112, Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-1135
btokarskyi@fas.harvard.edu
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Harvard University

Bohdan Tokarskyi is Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture.

He completed a Ph.D. in Slavonic Studies and an M.Phil in European Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Cambridge (U.K.) he studied international law at the Institute of International Relations based at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

He is a scholar of Ukraine’s modern and contemporary literature, with particular interest in underground culture, modern poetry, modernism, and comparative literature.

He has previously taught Ukrainian literature and culture at the universities of Cambridge, Basel, and Potsdam.

Bohdan Tokarskyi is a leading authority on the poetry of the dissident Vasyl Stus, Ukraine’s greatest post-war poet and Gulag prisoner. He is currently working on his monograph on Stus’s poetry, which is set to be the first English-language book on the poet’s work. His publications also include a book-length essay on Ukrainian Soviet modernism of the 1920s, The Un/Executed Renaissance.