Tetyana Dzyadevych

Tetyana Dzyadevych is a researcher, commentator, and analyst of contemporary Ukrainian and Russian culture and literature. She is coming to teach at Grinnell College after a year of research at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, where she is currently working on her monograph, Voices of Political Revival: Post-Soviet Literature of Russia and Ukraine.

Tetyana Dzyadevych was born and raised in Kyiv (Ukraine). She received intellectual training and education in Europe and the U.S.A. She graduated from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine and holds a Ph.D. in Literary theory from the University of Marie Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin (Poland) and Slavic Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago (USA).

Her area of interest is Russian and Ukrainian literature and 19th-21st c. visual and performing arts and pop culture. Her scholarship primarily focuses on works of the late Soviet period, perestroika, and post-Soviet period. Tetyana studies cultural production to explore and explain how art and literature shape and reflect their audiences' political identities. As a researcher and interpreter, Dzyadevych is interested in the epistemological significance of literary works, culture, and political subjectivity.

Courses Taught

In the fall semester, Tetyana will teach courses on contemporary Ukrainian culture, Soviet and
Russian films as propaganda tools, and the second-year Russian language. Tetyana is planning to run the Eastern European film club. Everyone is welcome!

Publications

Work in Progress:

Voices of Political Revival: Post-Soviet Literature of Russia and Ukraine – a monograph.

Nostalgia, and Anxiety in the Visual and Performing Arts: Russia, Eastern, and Central Europe, edited volume, Vernon Press – work in progress. Projected date of publication – September - October 2023. – an editor and contributor

Crimea in Ukrainian Narrative: Cultural Twists and Turns – Special issue for East/West Journal in Ukrainian Studies. Projected date of publication – Fall issue of 2024 – a guest editor and contributor of the article: “Crimean Tatars in Ukrainian Cultural Discourse: from Other to Brother.” – submitted for peer review

“Language and Space as Tools for Shaping Political Community: Contemporary Ukrainian and Russian Cases" – Special Issue “Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Ten Years After” for the Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2023 – submitted for peer review

“Russian Intelligentsia: Importance or Impotence in Facing the Pandemic. Vladimir Sorokin’s The Blizzard and Victor Pelevin’s iPhuk 10,” Russian Literature Journal, – a referred journal article submitted. – submitted for peer review

“Superfluous Men Speaking Out:  Zakhar Prilepin’s Sankya Challenges the Paradigm”–SEEJ– working on revisions.  

“Chornobyl as a Gateway to the Uncanny: Representing the Disaster in Western Documentaries”

Refereed Edited Volumes:

Neo-anti-colonialism VS Neo-imperialism: the Relevance of the Postcolonial Discourse in the Post-Soviet Space. (in Ukrainian and English), (ed. Gelinada Grinchenko and Tetyana Dzyadevych), East-West: the Scholarly Journal for History and Culture, Special Issue, #16 – 18, Kovalsky Eastern Ukrainian Institute, Kharkiv 2013, 551 pp.

• Review by Sasha Razor in Slavic and Eastern European Journal, Issue 59:1, (Spring 2015). 156 – 158.
• Review by Serhii Tereshchenko in Ukraina Moderna, Issue 22, 2015. 228 – 232.

Education of Sensibility: Some Thoughts on Post-colonialism in Ukraine and not only in Ukraine. (in Ukrainian) (ed.), Almanakh Young Nation, Smoloskyp Publishers, Kyiv 2007, 176 pp.

Chapters in Refereed Collective monographs:

“Postcolonial Research in Contemporary Ukrainian Humanities” (in Russian), (in co-authorship with Vahtang Kebuladze), Politics of Knowledge and Academic Communities, (Kebuladze, ed.), Vilnius, European Humanitarian University, 2015, pp. 172 – 191.

“Ukrainian Socrealism Literature in the European Discourse. Standard-bearers by Oles Gonchar (1946 – 1948)” (in German), Europa im Ostblock. Vorstellungen und Diskurse (1945-1991) / Europe in the Eastern Bloc. Imaginations and Discourses, ed. José M. Faraldo, Paulina Gulińska- Jurgiel, Christian Domnitz, Köln, Wien (Böhlau Verlag) 2008. 145 – 163.

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

“Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of the Russian Federation”, (in co-authorship with Dylan Charter, Anna Gomboeva, Lenore Grenoble, Jessica Kantarovich, Hilah Kohen, Irina Sadovina, Rossina Soyan), RLJ, Special Issue on DEAI, Vol. 71, No 3, 2021, pp. 73 – 99.

“WWII: Women’s Rapes Screening in Film. Comparing Film Narrations”, Plural, Journal of the History and Geography, Department “Ion Grenga”, Pedagogical State University, Chisinau, Vol.4, no.2, History. Culture. Society. Editura ARC, 2016, pp. 81 – 94.

“Garden in Venice” by Mileta Prodanovic as Post-colonial Text” (in Serbian), Српска кньижевност у украjинском ЛитАкценту / Уредио Деjан АjдачиЋ. – Београд: Алма: Проjекат Растко, 2015. 61 – 67.

“Child's Death as a Tool: Pioneer-Heroes in a Soviet Educational System” in: Dystopia: Journal of Totalitarian Ideologies and Regimes, State University of Moldova, Center for the Study of Totalitarianism, Volume I, no 1 – 2 2012, Cartier 2012, pp. 316 – 323.

“In the Desert and Wilderness” by H. Sienkiewicz: Ukrainian, Soviet and Russian Perception (in Polish) in: “Wokół “W Pustyni i Puszczy”, Kraków: TAiWPN UNIVERSITAS 2012, pp. 536 – 545.

Multiplicity of Identities in the Olga Tokarczuk’s Texts (in Ukrainian), in Litakcent, October 10th 2009

Keeping Distance from Empire (in Chinese), in: Ewa Thompson, Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism, Peking University Press, 2009, pp. IX – XIX.

Painful Search for the Identity: Generational Conflict in the Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema (in Polish), in: The Past in the Cinematography of the Central and Eastern Europe after 1989, ed. Boguslav Bakula and Monika Talarczyk-Gubala, Poznan (WiS), 2008, pp. 175 – 184.

Book Reviews

Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes. Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn, Edited by Alessandro Achilli, Serhiy Yekelchyk, and Dmytro Yesypenko, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2020, in Ab/Imperio, Vol 1, 2022, pp. 253 – 258.

Oleksandra Wallo, Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary: From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan (University of Toronto Press, 2019), in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Volume 40, a special issue on Women and Archives – April 2021, pp. 177 – 180.

Oksana Zabuzhko, Selected Poems, Arrowsmith Press, 2020, ISBN: 978-1-7346416-3-9, in: Los Angeles Review of Books

Lyudmila Parts, In Search of the True Russia. The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-299-31760, in: Ab/Imperio, Vol 1, 2020, pp. 383 – 386.

The Quest for a Free Ukraine, by Olena Chekan. Edited by Bohdan Rodyk Chekan. Vienna: Der Konterfei, 2015. 94 pages. ISBN 978-3-903043-04-6, in: The Sarmatian Review, Vol. XXXVI, #3, September 2016, pp. 2045 – 2046.

Roger D. Markwick and Euridice Charon Cardona, Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), xxiv, 305 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-230-57952-1, in: Ab/Imperio # 1/2014, pp. 51 – 54.

Joshua Shanes, Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 336 p.,

Maureen Healy, Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in the World War I, Cambridge, 2007

Steven Seegel, Mapping Europe’s Borderlands. Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire, University of Chicago Press, 2012

Cooper David L., Creating the Nation. Identity and Aesthetics in Early Nineteenth-century Russia and Bohemia, DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. 347, (Ukrainian), in: Neo-anti-colonialism VS Neo-imperialism: the Relevance of the Postcolonial Discourse in the Post-Soviet Space, East-West: Scholarly Journal for History and Culture, Special Issue, #16 – 18, the Kovalsky Eastern Ukrainian Institute, Kharkiv 2013, 520-522.