#  Maxim Tarnawsky 

 

 



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 Maxim Tarnawsky earned his Ph.D. in 1986 from Harvard and is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto. During his four-month stay at Harvard (September–December 2007), Tarnawsky will work on the topic “The Unknown Nechui,” analyzing the writings of Ivan Nechui-Levyts´kyi, the paragon of Ukrainian realism. While Tarnawsky notes that Nechui is certainly not a modernist—he fights this tendency explicitly—he points to the author’s vehemence and passion, coupled with the ambiguity of the aesthetics and themes in his works, and argues that a far more nuanced approach is necessary to understand the mechanisms whereby Ukrainian literature crosses the historical divide from traditionalism to modernity.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Fellowship Type
    
     [Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies](/fellowship-type/eugene-and-daymel-shklar-research-fellow-ukrainian-studies)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [Fellows for Academic Year 2007-2008](/fellowship-year/fellows-academic-year-2007-2008)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellows)