Natalia Pylypiuk — Наталія Пилип’юк
Professor: Ukrainian Literature, Language & Culture.
Research Interests: Hryhorii Skovoroda; Mysticism; Representations of Wisdom in Medieval and Early-Modern Literature and Iconography (1050-1780); Dissent (1960's-1980's); Second-language acquisition and reading strategies.
Principal Teaching Areas: Medieval and Early-Modern Ukrainian Culture; Diaspora and Dissent; Literature Today; Childrens' Literature; Ukrainian Language.
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DEGREES AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Ph.D. 1989, Harvard University, Comparative Literature
Dissertation: The Humanistic School and Ukrainian Literature of the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth Century (401 pp.)
Areas of Specialization:
◊ Ukrainian literature (11th - 20th century) with a focus on the Early-Modern Period
(1580s -1780s).
◊ Spanish and Latin-American Literatures: Renaissance and Baroque; 19th and 20th centuries.
◊ Polish Literature: Renaissance and Baroque; 19th and 20th centuries.
◊ Theory and Practice of Second-Language Teaching.
M.A. 1979, Harvard University, Comparative Literature: Ukrainian, Polish and Spanish.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
◊ English, Ukrainian and Spanish: Fluent.
◊ Polish, French and Russian: Reading fluency and strong conversation skills.
◊ Church Slavonic, Ruthenian (Middle Ukrainian and Belarusan), Latin, Provençal, German, Italian and Belarusan: Reading skills.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
◊ Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Department of
◊ Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature,
Religion, Film/Media Studies: (July 1999 - July 2002). University of Alberta
◊ Tenured as Associate Professor: 1995. Assistant Professor: 1992-95. SEES, University of Alberta
◊ Visiting Scholar: summer of 1992 & 1993. Harvard University
◊ Part-time Sessional Lecturer: 1990-92. University of Alberta
◊ Visiting Scholar: February-April 1990. Kyiv State University
◊ Post-Doctoral Fellow: 1989-90; Summer of 1991 & 1992. Harvard University
◊ Director of Ukrainian Summer Institute, 1989-93. Harvard University
◊ Ukrainian Language Co-ordinator (USI): 1987-94. Harvard University
◊ Lecturer, Harvard Summer School: 1987, 88. Harvard University
◊ Part-time Sessional Lecturer: 1984-85, 1986-87. University of Alberta
◊ Part-time Sessional Lecturer: 1980-83. University of Manitoba
PUBLICATIONS
[R] = Refereed; [I] Invited
ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION
Pylypiuk, Natalia, Oleh Ilnytzkyj and Serhii Kozakov, A Concordance to the Complete Works of Hryhorii Skovoroda (Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2009).
§ [R] Glenn Burger, Lesley Cormack, Jonathan Hart, Natalia Pylypiuk, editors, Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and Travel (U of A Press, Edmonton, 2003), xxxv + 284 pp. with an Index.
Reviews:
– Reinink, Martin. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 74: 1 (Winter 2004/5). 607-608
– Bak, Greg. (Ottawa). Histoire Sociale / Social History. Vol. XXXVI: 72 (November 2003). 527-528
– Sanderson, Ian. M2 Best Books, 21 August 2003.
– Wisconsin Bookwatch, May 2003, p. 3, column 1.
§ [R] Alla Nedashkivska, Waclaw Osadnik, Natalia Pylypiuk, editors. Theory and Practice of Teaching Slavic Languages and Cultures, a special section of Canadian Slavonic Papers. Vol. XLVI: 1-2 (March-June 2004), comprising 8 refereed contributions. 119 pp. For TOC, see.
LANGUAGE TEXTBOOK
§ [I] Pylypiuk, Natalia, with the assistance of Mykhailyna Kotsiubyns'ka and Natalia Burianyk. Ukrainian. Language Competencies for Peace Corps Volunteers. Washington, DC: United States Peace Corps, August 1992. 264 pp.
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
§ [R] “References to History and Historical Fiction in the Mohylanian Trivium.” Special issue of Journal of Ukrainian Studies [CIUS, U of Toronto]. Forthcoming. [9,659 words, 26 ms.pp.]
§ [R] “Християнські епікурейці пізнього бароку: Ендрю Марвел і Григорій Сковорода” [= Christian Epicureans of the Late Baroque: Andrew Marvell and Hryhorii Skovoroda]. Етика Отців у київській богословській думці епохи реформи (к. XVI-XVII st.) [=Patristic Ethics and Kyivan Theological Thought in the Age of Reform (late XVI c - early XVIII c)] Eds. O.P. Dovha, N.M. Yakovenko and M.V. Jaremenko. Special issue of Kyïvs'ka akademiia [= The Kyiv Academy], a juried periodical of the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Vypusk 6 (2008): 182-199.
§ “Introduction. Teaching Slavic Languages and Cultures.” Theory and Practice of Teaching Slavic Languages and Cultures, special issue of Canadian Slavonic Papers XLVI: 1-2 (March-June 2004): 1-7.
§ [R] “The Government of the Tongue in Skovoroda's Antique World.” Special issue of Ukraïna: Kul'turna spadshchyna, Natsional'na svidomist', Derzhavnist' [= Ukraine: Cultural Heritage, National Identity, Statehood], a juried periodical of the Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies (L’viv: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) Vypusk 12 (2004): 536-549.
§ [R] “Meditations on Stained Glass: Kholodnyi, Kalynets', Stus.” Journal of Ukrainian Studies 27: 1-2 (2002): 195-214.
§ [R] “Skovoroda’s Divine Narcissism.” Hryhorii Skovoroda, a special issue of Journal of Ukrainian Studies 22:1-2 (1997 [published March 1998]): 13-50.
§ [R] “Poetry as Milk: A Seventeenth-Century Metaphor and its Pedagogical Context.” Early-Modern Ukraine, a special issue of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies 17: 1-2, (1992 [published in June 1994]): 189-203.
§ [R] “The Primary Door. At the Threshold of Skovoroda’s Theology and Poetics.” Adelphotes, a special issue of Harvard Ukrainian Studies 14 (1990): 551-583.
§ [R] “Eucharisterion. Albo, Vdjac[h]nost'. The First Panegyric of the Kyiv Mohyla School: Its Content and Historical Context.” The Kiev Mohyla Academy. Commemorating the 350th Anniversary of Its Founding (1632), a special issue of Harvard Ukrainian Studies 8 (1984): 45-70.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS
§ [I] “Praise in Skovoroda’s Garden.” Nel Mondo degli Slavi. Incontri e dialoghi tra culture. Studi in onore di Giovanna Brogi Bercoff. Eds. Maria Di Salvo, Giovanna Moracci, Giovanna Siedina (Firenze University Press, 2008) Vol. 2, 469-79.
§ [I] “Pryvatna zbirka v inshomu svitli” [= The Private Collection in a Different Light]. Introduction to V inshomu svitli. Antolohiia ukraïns'koï literatury v anhlomovnykh perekladakh Virliany Tkach i Vandy Fypps ta v teatral'nykh diistvakh mystets'koï hrupy "Iara." [= In a Different Light, A Bilingual Anthology of Ukrainian Literature Translated into English by Virlana Tkacz and Wand Phipps as Performed by Yara Arts Group.] Comp. and ed. with Foreword and Notes by Olha Luchuk (L’viv: Sribne Slovo Press, 2008) 17-21 [in Ukrainian]; 31- 35 [in English].
§ [R] “Diva i maty: paradoksy barokovoho portreta mudrosty” [= Virgin and Mother: The Paradoxes of Wisdom's Baroque Portrait]. Ukraïna XVII stolittia: suspil'stvo, filosofiia, kul'tura. [= Ukraine of the XVIIth Century: Society, Philosophy, Culture] Eds. Larysa Dovha and Natalia Yakovenko (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2005 [released in 2006]) 281-303.
§ [I] “The Face of Wisdom in the Age of Mazepa.” Mazepa and his Time: History, Culture, Literature, Political Thought. Ed. Giovanna Siedina (Alessandria: Edizioni Dell'Orso, 2004) 367-400.
§ [with Lesley Cormack] “Introduction. Contact and Identity.” Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and Travel. Edmonton: U of A Press, 2003 [see Edited Collections of Essays, above] xvii – xxxv.
§ [I] “Vasyl' Stus, Mysticism and the Great Narcissus.” A World of Slavic Literatures. Essays in Comparative Slavic Studies in Honour of Edward Mozejko, Ed. Paul Duncan Morris (Bloomington, IND: Slavica, 2002) 173-210.
§ [I] “Golden Liberty: Kasiian Sakovych’s Understanding of Rhetoric and Preparation for the Civic Life.” States, Societies, Cultures: East and West. Essays in Honor of Jaroslaw Pelenski. Ed. Janusz Dizinkiewicz, Myroslav Popovych, Vladyslav Verstiuk, and Natalia Yakovenko. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, European Research Institute, and W. K. Lypynsky East European Research Institute (New York: Ross Publishing Inc., 2004) 885-920.
§ [R] “Kyïvs'ki poetyky i renesansni teoriï mystetstva” [= Kyiv Poetics and Renaissance Theories of Art]. Levropeis'ke vidrodzhennia ta ukraïns'ka literatura XIV-XVIII st.[= The European Renaissance and Ukrainian Literature of the XIV - XVIII cc.] Ed. Oleksa Mysanych (Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, [Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, T. Shevchenko Institute of Literature], 1993). 75-109.
§ [R] “Cultural Content in the Ukrainian-Language Classroom.” Ed. Manoly Lupul. Osvita. Ukrainian Bilingual Education (Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1985) 247-259.
SELECTED & JURIED PROCEEDINGS
§ “Pedahohichna teoriia i ukraïns'ka literatura XVI — XVIII st.” [= Pedagogical Theory and Ukrainian Literature of the XVI-th — XVIII-th cc.” Ed. Oleksa Myshanych. Ukraïns'ke barokko. Materialy I konhresu Mizhnarodnoï asotsiatsiï ukraïnistiv [=The Ukrainian Baroque. Papers read at the 1st. Congress of International Association of Ukrainian Studies] (Kyiv: Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1993) 71-76.
[I] ENTRIES IN Encyclopedia of Ukraine (CIUS, University of Toronto Press):
| § “Luts'ke Brotherhood of the Elevation of the Cross School” | vol. III (1993) | 214 |
| § “L'viv Dormition Brotherhood School” | vol. III (1993) | 231-232 |
| § “Kyiv Epiphany Brotherhood School” | vol. II (1988) | 522 |
| § “Kyivan Mohyla Academy” | vol. II (1988) | 545-548 |
| § “Kononovych-Horbatsky, Yosyf” | vol. II (1988) | 599 |
REVIEW ARTICLES AND DISCUSSIONS
§ [R] “Vydyma nevydymist'” [=The Visible Invisible] (Discussion of Bondarevs'ka, Iryna. Paradoksal'nist' estetychnoho v ukrains'kii kul'turi XVII-XVIII st. [= Paradoxality of the Aesthetic in Ukrainian Culture of the XVIIth-XVIIIth cc] Kyiv: Parapan, 2005). Ukraïns'kyi humanitarnyi ohliad [a juried periodical of the National University of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy and the Society for the Study of Central-Eastern Europe] Vypusk 12 (2006): 58-72.
§ [I] “In Search of Skovoroda” (Discussion of Hryhorij Sayvč Skovoroda. An Anthology of Critical Articles. Eds. Richard H. Marshall, Jr. and Thomas E. Bird. Edmonton-Toronto: CIUS, 1994). Journal of Ukrainian Studies 22:1-2 (1997 [published March 1998]): 125-143.
§ [I] Review article (of Nomys, Matvii. Ukraïns'ki prykazky, prysliv"ia i take inshe. Peredruk vydannia 1864 r. z dodatkamy [=Ukrainian Sayings, Aphorisms, etc. A Reprint of the 1864 Publication with Addenda] and Fol'klornyi zbirnyk Matviia Nomysa [=The Folklore Collection by Matvii Nomys”] Ed. Petro Odarchenko, with contributions by Bohdan Strumins'kyj, Natalie Kononenko-Moyle, and George Shevelov. South Bound Brook, NJ: Publishing Fund of His Beatitude Metropolitan Mstyslav, 1985). Suchasnist' (Munich) 12 (308) (1986): 116-122.
§ “Nove v staroukraïns'kii literaturi” [=New Publications Dealing with Old Ukrainian Literature] (Discussion of Soviet publications from 1972-82 dealing with early-modern Ukrainian literature and of Apollonova liutnia. Kyïvs'ki poety XVII — XVIII st. [= The Lute of Apollo. Kyiv Poets of the XVII — XVIII centuries) Kyiv: 1982). Suchasnist' 5 (289) 1985: 20-33.
§ Review article (of Kolosova, V.P. and V. I. Krekoten', Eds. Ukraïns'ka poeziia: Kinets' XVI — pochatok XVII st [=Ukrainian Poetry: End of the Sixteenth — Beginning of the Seventeenth Century], Kyiv: 1978). Recenzija (Cambridge, MA) IX, 1978-79: 32-50.
§ “Blahymy namiramy vymoshchene peklo” [=The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions] (Discussion of Invincible Spirit, Art and Poetry of Ukrainian Women Political Prisoners in the USSR. Baltimore: 1977). Suchasnist' 10 (214) 1978: 72-89.
Responses to my critics:
◊ “Kulyk kulyka bachyt' zdaleka.” Suchasnist' 5 (221) 1979: 119-122.
◊ “Replika na repliku.” Suchasnist' 12 (228) 1979: 76-77.
§ Review article of Radians'ke literaturoznavstvo [= Soviet Literary Scholarship] Kyiv: 1972, 1 – 12. Recenzija (Cambridge, MA) IV: 2, 1974: 59-80.
REVIEWS
§ of Shevchenko and the Critics, 1861 – 1980. Ed. George S. N. Luckyj. Toronto: 1980. Harvard Ukrainian Studies VIII: 3-4 (1984): 497-500.
§ of Vasyl' Symonenko. Lebedi materynstva. Poezija, proza [=The Swans of Motherhood. Poetry, Prose] Introduction by Oles' Honchar. Kyiv: 1981. Harvard Ukrainian Studies XI: 3-4 (1987): 543-547.
– A shorter version of this review appeared in Ukrainian, in Diialoh [Edmonton] 9 (1983): 43-48.
INTERVIEW (DOCUMENTING DISSENT AND PERESTROIKA)
[with Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj and Myroslav Yurkevich] “Rozmova z Ivanom Dziuboiu” [=A Conversation with Ivan Dziuba] (The prominent literary critic and dissident describes the aftermath of the arrests of 1972 in the USSR and the beginning of perestroika) Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 25 (Winter 1988): 5-28.
CONTRIBUTION TO PROFESSIONAL NEWSLETTER
§ [I] “Television Commercials in the Ukrainian language Classroom,” Newsletter of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Vol. 45:2 (April 2002): 15-16. Download.
TRANSLATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS
§ [with Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj] From English into Ukrainian (Canada‚ texts prepared by the National Geographic Society for the use with filmstrips): Kanada. Suspil'ni nauky: p"iata kliasa, tema B‚ Alberta Education Language Services, Interim Edition: 1984. 44 pp.
§ [with José Casanova] From Spanish into Ukrainian: Juan A. Matesans, “The Nationalities Problem in Spain: the Basques,” Suchasnist' 3-4 (243-244) 1981: 126-137.
§ From Ukrainian into English: Bohdan Krawciw, “A Bibliographical Survey of Periodical Literature for 1973 — Literaturna Ukraïna, Kyiv: 1973, and Radians'ke literaturoznavstvo, Kyiv: 1973.” Harvard Ukrainian Studies I: 4 (1977): 550-559.
§ Adaptation (March 1985) of Ivan Franko’s short story Dobryi zaribok‚ published by Alberta Education in an anthology for bilingual students.
REPRINTS
§ [In Ukrainian translation by Burkovs'kyi, Ihor] of 1985 chapter: “Eucharisterion. Albo, Vdjachnost'. Pershyi panehiryk Kyievo-Mohylians'koï shkoly: joho zmist ta istorychnyi kontekst.” Zapysky Naukovoho tovarystva imeni T. Shevchenka, Vol. CCXXIV (Lviv, 1992): 25- 43. Commissioned by the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society (Lviv, Ukraine).
§ Internet reprints of entries in Encyclopedia of Ukraine:
– “L'viv Dormition Brotherhood School”
– “Kyiv Epiphany Brotherhood School”
– “Kyivan Mohyla Academy”
MANUAL
§ Answer Key to Assya Humesky's Modern Ukrainian, Pilot Edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, 1992. 260 pp.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
[R] = Refereed; [I] Invited
- ASEEES = Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies International Convention [formerly AAASS]
- AAASS = American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
- AATSEEL = American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
- CAS = Canadian Association of Slavists (Canadian Federation of the Humanities & Social Sciences congress)
- IAUS = International Association of Ukrainian Studies
- ICCEES = International Council for Central and East European Studies
- NANU = National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine [post-Soviet]
- UAN = [Soviet] Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
2010. Nov. 21. “Art vs. the Brutality of War in the Writings of Osyp Turians’kyi, Yuriy Kosach and Wira Wowk,” Roundtable: The Individual, Ideology and Morality, as Depicted in Ukrainian Literature, ASEEES,Los Angeles, CA.
2010. Oct. 15. [I] “Мудрість предвічна (1703) — драма-мораліте для аристократів” [= Pre-Eternal Wisdom (1703) – A Morality Play for the Aristocracy]. International Conference devoted to Pylyp Orlyk’s Pacta Conventa, University of the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Kyiv. This paper was discussed in an article by Dmytro Drozdovs’kyi that appeared in Ukraine’s premier weekly Dzerkalo tyzhnia, on 23 October 2010. See http://www.dt.ua/articles/61287
2009. May 25. “Iconophilia in Skorovoda’s ‘Alphabet or Primer of the World’.” CAS, Carleton University, Ottawa.
2008. December 28. [R] “Skovoroda’ Emblematic World,” AATSEEL, San Francisco, CA. Panel: “New Approaches to Hryhorii Skovoroda.” Refereed abstract published in Program of the 2008 Annual AATSEEL Meeting, p. 51.
2007. December 30. [R] “Hryhorii Skovoroda in the Garden of Epicurus,” AATSEEL, Chicago, IL. Panel: “Hesychasts and Epicureans in Eighteenth-Century Ukraine.” Refereed abstract published in Program of the 2007 Annual AATSEEL Meeting (Chicago Hilton Hotel, December 27-30, 2007, Chicago, IL). 155 [298 words].
2007. September 23.[I] “Endriu Marvel i Hryhorii Skovoroda, khrystyians'ki epikureitsi pizn'oho baroko” [= Andrew Marvell and Hryhorii Skovoroda: Christian Epicureans of the Late Baroque]. Patristic Ethics in Kyivan Theological Thought in the Age of Reform (late XVI c - XVII c), an international conference org. by the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the Ukrainian Centre for Byzantine and Patristic Studies, and the Ukrainian Philosophical Fund, Kyiv (Ukraine).
2006. November 19.[R] “Hryhorii Skovoroda's Understanding of Salvation.” Panel: “Sin and Salvation in Early Modern Ukrainian Culture.” AAASS, Washington, DC.
2006. May 28. “Hryhorii Skovoroda's Arguments with Satan,” CAS, York University.
2005. October 13.[I] “Stavlennia Skovorody do panehirychnykh stratehii” (= Skovoroda’s Attitude toward Panegyrism). Ad Fontes. An international conference devoted to the 390-th anniversary of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Organizer: the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv (Ukraine).
2005. July 26. [R] “Hryhorii Skovoroda's Rejection of Panegyrical Amplificatio.” Panel: The Rejection of Panegyrism in Russian and Ukrainian Literatures in the Late 18th Century. ICCEES, VII World Congress, organized with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, Berlin. Abstract published in ICCEES VII World Congress. Europe — Our Common Home? Berlin, July 25-30, 2005. Abstracts 2005, p. 330.
2004. May 30. Participant in panel discussion “Editing Canadian Slavonic Papers: A Tale of Its History and Misdeeds.” CAS, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
2004. May 18. “My Personal Journey to the Archives of Ukraine” (included an overview of best practices pertinent to the situation in Ukraine). Conference on The Archive vs. 'the archives': Source Selection, Authority and Canonicity in History and Literature Studies, MEMI, U of A.
2003. November 21. [R] “Hryhorii Skovoroda's 'The Serpent's Flood'.” AAASS, Toronto.
2003. May 10. "Is Sophia Pregnant?" Highway Two Conference, U of Alberta: MLCS & U of Calgary: French, Italian, Spanish Department.
2003. November 8. [I] “Semystovpnyi dim Mudrosty i ‘Potop zmiïn’ Hryhoriia Skovorody” [=Wisdom's Seven-Pillared Abode and Skovoroda's 'The Serpent's Flood'." International conference on UKRAINE IN THE XVII-th CENTURY: SOCIETY, PHILOSOPHY, CULTURE, organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the NANU, the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and the Society for the Study of Central-Eastern Europe. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2002. August 27.[R] “Iak vyhliadala Sofiia?” [=What was the Appearance of Sophia?]. The Fifth Congress of the IAUS, University of Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
2002. May 26. “The Gender of Wisdom in the Works of Hryhorii Skovoroda.” CAS, U of Toronto. [A revised version of paper presented on 28 December 2001.]
2002. May 10. [I] “The Face of Wisdom in the Age of Mazepa.” Session on LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY AND ART. IVAN MAZEPA AND HIS FOLLOWERS: STATE IDEOLOGY, HISTORY, RELIGION, LITERATURE, CULTURE, an international conference organized by Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici, Letterati e Filologici (Sez. di Slavistica e Ugrofinistica). 7-11 May 2002. Feltrinelli Palace, Gargnano del Garda (Italy).
2001. December 28. [R] “Hryhorii Skovoroda and the Gender of Wisdom,” panel on WISDOM AND JUDGEMENT: TEXT AND IMAGE IN EAST SLAVIC CULTURE, 15TH-185H CENTURIES, AATSEEL, New Orleans, Louisiana. Refereed abstract published in Program of the 2001 Annual Meeting. 137.
2001. December 28. [R] “Television Commercials in the Ukrainian Language Classroom.” Round table discussion on MATERIALS AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGES OTHER THAN RUSSIAN, AATSEEL, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2000. November 10. [R] “Sophia-Minerva-Maria in Early-Modern Ukrainian Literature.” Panel on VISIONS OF SOPHIA IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA. AAASS, Denver, CO.
2000. April 6. [I] “The Prophets of the Hebrew Bible in the Prose of Hryhorii Skovoroda.” COLLOQUIUM: “TOLERATION AND PERSECUTION. CHRISTIAN ATTITUDES TO JEWS AND JUDAISM IN 'LATIN' AND 'ORTHODOX' CHRISTENDOM.” Dept. of History & Classics in co-operation with Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Chair, U of Alberta, Edmonton.
1999. November 20. [R] “Mystical Regeneration of the Self in Hryhorii Skovoroda's Early Colloquies (1768-1775).” Panel: Aspects of Mysticism in Ukrainian and Russian Literature of the Late-Eighteenth Century. AAASS, St. Louis, Missouri.
1998. December 29.[R] “Teaching Ukrainian Reading Strategies at the Lower-Intermediate Level,” panel: RECENT ISSUES IN THE TEACHING OF CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. AATSEEL, San Francisco. Refereed abstract published in Program of the 1998 Annual Meeting. 201-202.
1998. October 2. “Vocabularies of Identity in Early-Modern Ukraine,” MAKING CONTACT: NATIVES, STRANGERS AND BARBARIANS, an interdisciplinary, international conference organized by the MEDIEVAL AND EARLY-MODERN INSTITUTE, U of Alberta, Edmonton.
1997. June 14. “Playing Games: the Theory of carmina curiosa in Ukraine and Early-Modern Europe,” EYE RHYMES, a multidisciplinary, international conference on Visual Poetry. U of Alberta, Edmonton.
1996. December 28.[R] “The Diatribe in Early-Modern Ukrainian Literature: The Case of Hryhorii Skovoroda,” AATSEEL, Washington, D.C.
1996. November 16. [I] “Mohyla as the Ideal Hero in the Poetry of the Kyivan Academy,” THE METROPOLITAN PETRO MOHYLA SYMPOSIUM, III, organized by St. Andrew's College, U. of Manitoba. St. John's Institute, Edmonton.
1995. August 6-11. [R] “Designing a Ukrainian Competency-Based Curriculum for North-American Students,” V WORLD CONGRESS ICCEES with Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
1995. April 26. “The State of Ukrainian-Language Teaching in Canadian Universities,” UKRAINIAN STUDIES IN CANADA 1995: BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE; panel Conditions and Outlooks in the Disciplines, CIUS, U of A.
1995. April 26. [I] “Professors, Students and Teachers in Ukrainian-Language Education.” UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE EDUCATION: workshop devoted to The Status of Ukrainian-Language Education in Education and Slavic Studies, and Relevant Research Issues, Ukrainian Language Education Centre, U of Alberta.
1995. March 18. [with Oleh Verevka] “Teaching Vocabulary and noun Declensions to Students of Beginners' Ukrainian.” CALL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA. Abstract published.
1994. March 18-19. [I] “Skovoroda and the System of Early Modern Ukrainian Literature,” Gregory Skovoroda: Philosopher and Poet, A Symposium, THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY. A shorter version of this paper was read on 10 June 1994, at panel devoted to Literature and Culture in Belarus, Russia and Russia and Ukraine — XVI-XVIII Centuries. CAS, Learned Societies Conference, U of Calgary.
1993. November 22.[R] “Pedagogy in Post-Colonial Ukraine.” Panel: PROBLEMS OF POST-COLONIAL CULTURE IN UKRAINE. AAASS, Honolulu, HI.
1992. November 20. [R] “Mothers and Daughters: Self-Imaging by Two Generations of Writers.” Panel: Women in Ukraine: Current Issues and Status. AAASS, Phoenix, Arizona.
1991. November 23. [R] “On being a Ukrainian Writer in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.” Panel: Problems of National Attribution in Literature, Music and the Arts. AAASS, Miami, FL.
1990. August 29. [R] “Pedagogic Theory and Ukrainian Literature of the XVII-th and XVIII-th Centuries” (in Ukrainian). FIRST CONGRESS OF THE IAUS. Kyiv, Ukraine.
1988. June 8. [read in absentia]. “The Effects of Glasnost' on Ukrainian Literary Criticism.” CAS, Learned Societies. Windsor, Ontario.
1987. January 15. [I] “The Function of Praise in the Humanistic School” (in Ukrainian). SYMPOSIUM ON UKRAINIAN CLASSIC LITERATURE: OLD UKRAINIAN LITERATURE; PROBLEMS OF LITERARY THEORY [14-16 January 1987]. Organizers: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of Harvard University and the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the UAN (Kyiv, UkSSR). Sponsors: AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES and SOVIET ACADEMY OF SCIENCES COMMISSION ON THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES. Cambridge, MA.
1985. June 2. “The Perfect Hero. Rhetoric and the Models for Emulation Proposed by Seventeenth-Century Panegyrics: Their Significance in the Study of Ukrainian Society and the Development of Ukrainian Literature.” Panel: Ukrainian Literature and Society. CAS, Learned Societies. Montréal, Québec.
1984. October 13. “Contemporary Ukraine. Old and New Culture‚” NEW HORIZONS: MODERN LANGUAGES COUNCIL CONFERENCE. Edmonton.
1982. November 6. [I] “Culture Content in the Ukrainian-Language Classroom‚” OSVITA CONFERENCE: TEACHING AND LEARNING IN UKRAINIAN. CIUS and The University of Alberta, Edmonton.
1980. March 28. [I] “Old Ukrainian Literature: An Overview of Publications and Studies of the Last 25 Years.” Conference: OLD CYRILLIC MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS. HISTORICAL, CONTEMPORARY AND METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES. Department of Slavic Studies, U of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
SELECTED LECTURES & SEMINARS
- CIUS = Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (UofA or UofT)
- HURI = Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
- MEMI = Medieval and Early Modern Institute (UofA)
- MLCS = Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (UofA)
- SEES = Department of Slavic and East European Studies (UofA)
- UM = Ukrainian Museum, New York City
2010. Sept. 26. [I] "Why Did Sophia Let Her Hair Down? Representations of Divine Wisdom in the Age of Mazepa," an illustrated lecture, delivered in conjunction with the major exhibition Ukraine-Sweden: At the Crossroads of History (XVII-XVIII Centuries), UM.
2008. November 7. [I] “Сковорода у саду епікурейців” [=Skovoroda in the Garden of the Epicureans]. Memorial lecture honoring the philosopher and editor Taras Zakydalsky. Organized by the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the CIUS, U of Toronto. Canadian Ukrainian Art Foundation, Toronto.
2004. January 29. “The Face of Wisdom in the Age of Mazepa: Articulating a Post-Colonial Understanding of Slavic Studies in North America.” Workshop on Cultural Identities (CIUS and MLCS), U of A.
2002. February 28. “Meditations on Stained Glass: East of West, West of East” (a power-point presentation), LITERATURE AND CULTURE SERIES, MLCS, U of A.
1999. November 4. [I] “Vasyl' Stus and the Great Narcissus.” CIUS SEMINAR, U of A.
1998. March 9. “Auto-erotic Elements in the Prose of Skovoroda.” Panel on the erotics of Early-Modern literature. Medieval and Early Modern Institute, U of A.
1997. Feb 3. [I] “Diatribes, Games and Colloquies in the Prose of Skovoroda,” CIUS SEMINAR, U of A.
1993. Feb 8. “In her Own Image: Creating a Predecessor. Kostenko's Marusia Churai,” SEES, U of A.
1992. May 5. “Poetry as Milk: A Seventeenth-Century Metaphor and Its Theoretical Context,” SEES, U of A.
1990. March 30.[I] “The Function of Praise in the Humanistic School and Ukrainian Poetry of the Baroque” (in Ukrainian). DEPARTMENT OF UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, KYIV STATE UNIVERSITY. Also read on 9 February 1990, at RIVNE PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE AND KOROLENKO INSTITUTE OF WATER MANAGEMENT, Ukraine.
1990. February 16. [I] “Hryhoriі Skovoroda and the Poetics of the Humanistic School” (in Ukrainian). THE REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES and THE TARAS SHEVCHENKO INSTITUTE OF LITERATURE OF THE UAN. Kyiv, Ukraine.
1988. March 24. [I] “Zakharii Kopystens'kyi vs. Kasiian Sakovych: An Early Literary Polemic,” SEMINAR IN UKRAINIAN STUDIES, HURI, Harvard University.
1987. November 20. [I] “The Current Debate in Ukrainian Literary Criticism‚” CIUS SEMINAR, U of A. (Summary published in the CIUS Newsletter).
1986. November 24. [I] “The Curriculum of the Humanistic School as the Key to Early Modern Ukrainian Literature.” DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, U of Toronto. Also read on 3 November 1986, at SEES Seminar Series, U of A.
1985. March 13. “Perekladaty chy ne perekladaty?” [=To Translate or Not to Translate?]. Part of seminar on Problems of English - Ukrainian Translation, organized by the SEES (U of A) for Alberta teachers involved in bilingual education.
1985. October 18.[I] “Rhetoric and Seventeenth-Century Ukrainian Literature,” CIUS SEMINAR, U of A. (Summary published in the CIUS Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1986, pp. 13-15).
1982. Fall. “The First Panegyric of the Kyiv Mohyla School. Its Literary and Historical Significance‚” (in Ukrainian). UKRAINIAN FREE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, Winnipeg, MB.
1979. November 22. [I] “The Works of Prince Ivan Khvorostinin, the Father of Russian Poetry. Reassessing the Evidence.” DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES, U of Manitoba. Winnipeg, MB.
1979. November 24.[I] “Polish-Ukrainian Literary Relations in the Seventeenth Century. Some Aspects of Literary Theory” (in Ukrainian). THE UKRAINIAN FREE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Winnipeg, MB.
EDITING AND PUBLISHING
§ Assistant to the Book Review Editor, CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS. 1992-1997.
§ Acting Book Review Editor, Canadian Slavonic Papers. 1991-1992.
§ Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS, Edmonton-Toronto): April 1986 - 1991.
§ Editor-in-Chief, Recenzija: A Review of Soviet Ukrainian Publications (Harvard University Ukrainian Research Institute, Cambridge): Spring - Summer 1976.
§ Member of the Editorial Board, Recenzija... 1975-1978.
§ Editor, Minutes of the Seminar in Ukrainian Studies held at Harvard University: Fall 1976.
MANUSCRIPT ASSESSMENT
- Alberta Education, 1983-84: Auditor of Ukrainian-language teaching aids for The Review of Program and Supporting Materials with Respect to Tolerance and Understanding.
- Australian Slavonic and East European Studies (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia): 2004
- Canadian Slavonic Papers (Canadian Association of Slavists): 1993; 1995-96; 2002-03; 2005-07.
- Comparative Literature Studies (Pennsylvania State University): 2005.
- Ethnologies (U of Calgary): 2001.
- Slavic and East European Journal (AATSEEL): 1998.
- Slavic Review (American Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, U of Illinoi's at Champagne Urbana): 2004.
- Spahr, Adriana and Cristina Santos, Editors, Monstrous Deviations in Literature: one chapter.
ASSESSMENT OF RESEARCH GRANT APPLICATIONS
- For the SSHRC (Ottawa): 3 applications (2001-06)
- For the American Council of Learned Societies (New York): 14 research grant applications and 3 publication grants (2005)
- External Assessor for the Social Science and Research Council (New York): The Ukrainian-Language Summer Program of The National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (1996)
- Referee for the National Endowment for the Humanities (Washington, D.C.): 1 manuscript (1995).
- 2008, Fall. Language consultant to Honorable Gene Zwozdesky, in the preparation of BILL 37, which was a passed by the Alberta Legislature on 30 October 2008.
- 2003, April. Translation Examination for the CTIC.
- 1993. Ukrainian-language Competence Examiner, John Carroll University, (Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures), University Heights, Ohio.
- 1990. Ukrainian-language Competence Examiner, State University College of Buffalo (Department of Biology), Buffalo, New York.
- 1988-87. External Examiner, Critical Languages Program, The University of Arizona (Faculty of Humanities), Tucson.
AWARDS
§ “2003 Best Article Prize” (American Association of Ukrainian Studies) for “Vasyl' Stus, Mysticism and the Great Narcissus” (2002)
§ For excellent and imaginative teaching of Spanish. See Harvard Guide to Undergraduate Studies, Fall 1980, 501-503. Award ceremony at Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, 12 September 1980.
RESEARCH / TECHNICAL SUPPORT GRANTS
External
- 2005-09. [with Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj] Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Ottawa, for project "A Concordance to the Works of Hryhorij Skovoroda"
- 1995. Dr. Natalka Horeczko Fund, toward assistance in the Mandry project
- 1988-89. Social Sciences and Research Council, New York, for the research and development of second-language materials designated for the Ukrainian Language Program, Harvard Summer School.
- 2011. Fall. Support for the Advancement of Scholarship. Project Title: School Theatre in Early-Modern Ukraine.
- 2009. Faculty of Arts. For mounting of 1,232 pages of manuscript facsimiles on site of "A Concordance to the Complete Works of Hryhorii Skovoroda."
- 1999, 1998, 1994. SSHRC 4A grants, office of the Vice-President (Research and External Affairs), project Evangelical Humanism, Erasmus and the Prose of Hryhorii Skovoroda.
- 1994. SAS toward technical support for project that analyzes minimum vocabulary
- 1993. SEES Publication Fund. for the support of graduate students, assisting in the Mandry project.
GRADUATE SUPERVISION
Co-supervisor, Natalia Kovaliova [beg, Fall 2007], (Ukrainian Literature), in progress;
Supervisor. Victoria Lyasota (Ukrainian Literature) “Trauma Narrative in Oksana Zabuzhko’s Field Studies in Ukrainian Sex.” Course-based M.A. Completed Fall 2009.
Member of Supervisory Committee. Roman Ivashkiv [beg. fall 2007], (Ukrainian Literature).
MA
Member of Supervisory Committee. Susan Niawchuk, “Toward a Course in Professional and Business Ukrainian“ (Ukrainian Linguistics, 1996)
Examiner (Thesis Proposal Defense). Iryna Tsobrova (Comparative Literature, 17 April 2008) accepted.
MA
Examiner. Carla L.Smithson, “The Birth of a Nation: Identity Formation in Exodus 1-15 “ (Comparative Lit., 1995)
UNDERGRADUATE SUPERVISION
COURSES TAUGHT
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UKR 645
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History of Ukrainian Literary Criticism. Fall 2008.
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UKR 575*
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Ukrainian Literature Today. Winter 2008 and Winter 2005.
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UKR 574*
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Diaspora and Dissent. Winter 2012. Fall 2004.
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UKR 569*
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Civilization and Culture in Ukraine: 988-1794: Fall 2011. Fall 2003
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UKR 699*
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Children's Literature in Ukrainian: Winter 2009, Fall 2005, Winter 2002.
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UKR 699*
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The New York Group [of writers and artists]. Fall 2001.
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UKR 516*
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Early-Modern Ukrainian Prose (1580s-1780s). Winter 2007 (focus on religious polemics and mysticism); Winter 1998 (focus on problems of authority); Winter 1996 (focus on classical colloquy).
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UKR 515*
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Early-Modern Ukrainian Poetry and Drama (1580s-1780s). Fall 2007 (focus on theme of wisdom and freedom); Fall 1999 (focus on mystical texts); Fall 1996 (focus on sacramental psychology).
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UKR 699*/ COMP. LIT. 698*
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“Medieval and Early-Modern Literature.” Fall 1997 (focus on adaptations of biblical narratives in the literature of the XI-XVIIIcc
– “Pre-Secular Literature.” Fall 1995 (a survey of the XI-XVIII for the non-specialist.) – “Early-Modern Literature.” Fall 1992 and Fall 1990 (focus on theoretical issues of literature as a system). |
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UKR 643
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“The Ukrainian Novel and Short Prose.” Winter 1994 (focus on utopian narratives of twentieth-century science fiction).
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UKR 504
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Ukrainian on TV and in Film: Winter 2006 (substituting for Alla Nedashkivska).
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UKR 499*
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Christian Polemics and Mysticism in Early Modern Ukraine (XVII-XVIII cc.)
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UKR 499*
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TV and the Media in 2L Teaching (Reading course). Winter 2006
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REL ST 480*
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Mysticism: East and West (Reading Course)
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UKR 469*
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Civilization and Culture in Ukraine: 988-1794: Fall 2007; Fall 2003 (team taught with Alla Nedashkivska). Formerly UKR 385/699 & 470: A survey of Medieval & Early Modern Literature: Fall 1995.
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UKR 475*
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Ukrainian Literature Today: Winter 2008, 2005, 1995, 1997, 2001.
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UKR 474*
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Diaspora and Dissent (Literature from 1940s — 1960s): Winter 2012; Fall 2004; Winter 2000; Fall 1994.
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UKR 499*
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Pre-Secular Literature: Fall 1997
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UKR 465
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Taras Shevchenko: Winter 1993
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UKR 411-412 ---------------
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Survey of Ukrainian Literature (XI-XX cc.) 1993-94
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UKR 405*
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Children's Literature in Ukrainian: Winter 2009; Fall 2005; Winter 2002.
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UKR 404
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Ukrainian on TV and in Film: Winter 2006 (substituting for Alla Nedashkivska).
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UKR 211-212*
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[formerly 203 - 204] The Ukrainian Speaking World I & II: 2001, 2002-03; 04-05, 07, 2007-08, 08-09, 10-11, 11-12.
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UKR 401-402
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Third-Year Ukrainian: 1990-91; 1991-92
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UKR 301*
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Reading and Speaking Ukrainian. 2000, 2001,
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UKR 215-216
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Assisted Readings [formerly 315-316]: on a yearly basis between 1990-1997.
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UKR 201-202
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Second Year Ukrainian I and II: On a yearly basis between 1994-1998; then in 1999-2000.
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UKR 100 C2
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Beginning Ukrainian: 1995-96
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UKR 200
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First-year University Ukrainian [subsequently, UKR 150]: 1986-87
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UKR 303-304
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Intermediate Ukrainian: 1984-85
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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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1990, 1988
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Ukr. S-100 Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Literature, 1900-1965
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1987
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Ukr. S-B Intermediate Ukrainian (a two-semester course).
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1982‑1983
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52.254
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Advanced Ukrainian (A full-year course)
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1981‑1983
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52.125
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Intermediate Ukrainian (A full-year course)
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1980‑1983
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52.091
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Introductory Ukrainian (A full-year course)
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1981‑1982
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52.255
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Introduction to Ukrainian Literature: A survey course. (I taught the second term, i.e., the nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
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1980‑1981
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52.741*
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Graduate: Selected Topics in Ukrainian Literature: Comparative Slavic Literature (Problems pertaining the history and literary theory of seventeenth-century texts).
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52.458*
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Baroque in Ukrainian Literature: An overview of Ruthenian (Belarusan and Ukrainian) Literature in the Polish and West European context. Topics: development of genres, versification and the world-view of early-modern Slavic cultures.
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1980‑1981
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52.366
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Ukrainian Literature in the West: The literary renascence in D.P. camps; the literature of exile; the New York Group.
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52.362
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Ukrainian Stylistics II: An introduction to the study of literature and literary analysis.
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52.249
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Ukrainian Stylistics I
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52.248
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Ukrainian Composition
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SERVICE (SELECTED EXAMPLES)
– Modern Languages and Comparative Studies Graduate Committee (1995-1998).
§ Undergraduate Advisor for CEES, Russian, and Ukrainian in MLCS (Winter 2010; Winter 2008; 2005-06). Updated requirements in all Ukrainian courses and in CEES program. In Slavic and East European Studies: B.A. and B.A. Honors programs Advisor (1994-1997).
§ Curricular updates. In MLCS: all undergraduate requirements in Ukrainian programs (2004-05). Reformulated entire Ukrainian Literature and Language program, streamlining and updating our course offerings (March 2000). In SEES: Revised [with Oleh Ilnytzkyj] undergraduate program in Ukrainian literature, and introduced two graduate courses on Early-Modern Ukrainian Literature (Winter 1993).
§ Organized first MLCS (departmental) Literature & Culture Seminar Series (11 lectures were delivered during 1999-2000).
§ Co-ordinator of University Teaching Services, MLCS, Fall 1999-2001.
§ In Modern Languages & Comparative Studies: Member of Arts Open House Committee (Fall 1996). Managed the production of posters and assisted with exhibit.
§ In SEES: Member of Equity Committee and author of SEES position paper, U of A, 1992-1993.
§ Member of Hiring Committees.
Winter 2009: Department of East Asian (Chinese).
Winter 2000-Winter 2002: Three committees in Spanish/Latin American Studies.
§ Member of Conference Organizing Committees.
– International conference "Meaningful Marginalities: Religious Influences and Cultural Constructions" (11-13 May 2006).
– International conference MAKING CONTACT: NATIVES, STRANGERS AND BARBARIANS, organized by Medieval & Early Modern Institute (January - October 1998).
§ Member, Academic Affairs Committee: 1997-1998.
§ Member of the Executive, MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN INSTITUTE (MEMI), 1996- 2001.
§ Departmental representative to Arts Faculty Council: 1999-2000, 1997-98, 1995-96
§ Wrote [with Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj] extensive briefs and analyses for the President's Committee that developed a Policy on Student Concerns and Complaints. These led to emendations to the document, which was adopted by the GFC Executive on 7 July 2005.
§ U of A's Development Office: Contributed text and images, and helped edit brochure on Ukrainian Studies (2005).
– President, CAS: 2000-02; 2002-04. Facilitated the organization of the Canadian Association of Ukrainian Studies (CAUS) in Toronto, 2002. Helped organize the Canadian delegation to the V-th Congress of the International Association of Ukrainian Studies (Chernivtsi, August 2002), under the auspices of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Conceptualized the design and content of the CAS website, which was launched in spring 2004. Managed the preparation of The CAS Newsletter, Fall-Spring 2003-04. CAS representative to the HSSFC: November 2000, March 2004.
– Chair and Local representative, Program Committee, 2000 conference of the CAS (SSFHC), Edmonton.
– Immediate Past President, 2004-06; 2006-08: Chair of the Nominating Committee. Spring 2005: Updated [with Serhiy Kozakov] the CAS website, and compiled and edited The CAS Newsletter, Fall-Spring 2004-05.
Other Service:
– Chair, International Committee of the CAS (elected in 2009 for a 4 year term)
– Member, Program Committee, 1999 conference of the CAS.
§ Member of Modern Languages Working Group, a project of the Social Sciences and Humanities Federation of Canada (SSHFC): January 2001-May 2002. Helped prepare Research Development grant proposal, a project managed by the Chair of the MLWG, Professor David Graham (Memorial U. of Newfoundland). Met with group at Laval (2001) and participated in round table at Toronto on 27 May 2002.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: A SELECTION
◊ Interpreter (Spanish-English) for Clemente Padin (Montevideo, Uruguay): “The Visual
Operator in Experimental Poetry,” EYE RHYMES (CONFERENCE ON VISUAL POETRY), session on VISUAL POETRY AS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON, 15 June
1997.
◊ Organized intensive Ukrainian-language Proficiency Testing of U of A students, for the Directorate of Evaluation and Standardization of THE DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE, FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER, Monterey, California. U of A, 11-12 March 1995.
◊ Organized and coordinated an intensive Ukrainian language course for Mr. Eric Rubin, a career diplomat assigned by the US State Department to the Embassy in Kyiv, U of A, 21-26 February 1994.
◊ Presentation: “The Ukrainian Language and Literature Program at the U of A,” recruitment for SEES and MLCS,
◊ Opening address: “Divine Wisdom—Our Sovereign Queen” and MC at fund-raising banquet for the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, organized by the Friends of NaUKMA. U of A, 28 November 1994. Excerpts of an interview with me, “Fund-Raising Coup for Friends of NaUKMA,” were published in Centrepieces (a publication of the Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre at GRANT MACEWAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE), Spring 1995. 6.
◊ Guest speaker: “Kings and Navigators.” KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS (Bishop Demetrius M. Greshchuk Assembly) event: CANADA AND HER PEOPLE. St Josaphat's Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, Edmonton, 20 Jan. 1994.
◊ Keynote address: “Shevchenko’s ‘Testament’ in its Historical Context” [in Ukrainian: Nezlym, tyxym slovom. “Zapovit” Shevchenka v istorychnomu konteksti.] Concert honoring Taras Shevchenko, organized by the EDMONTON BRANCH OF THE UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CONGRESS. St. John's Aud., 14 March 1993.
◊ Talk: “The Ukrainian Summer Institute at Harvard University‚” (in Ukrainian). Department of Ukrainian Language and Literature, KHARKIV STATE UNIVERSITY, Ukraine, 4 September 1990.
“Ukrainian Studies in the West‚” [a round-table discussion with George G. Shevelov and Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, in Ukrainian]. CENTER FOR POLITICAL EDUCATION, Kharkiv, 4 September 1990.
◊ Talk: “The Teaching of Ukrainian as a Second Language in North America‚” (in Ukrainian). DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES, KOROLENKO INSTITUTE OF WATER MANAGEMENT, Rivne, Ukraine, 30 March 1990.
◊ Talk: “Ukrainian Student Life in North America.” RIVNE PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE AND KOROLENKO INSTITUTE OF WATER MANAGEMENT, Rivne, Ukraine, 30 March 1990.
◊ Talk: “Ukrainian Studies and Scholarship in Canada and the U.S.A‚” (in Ukrainian). Given at RIVNE PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE AND KOROLENKO INSTITUTE OF WATER MANAGEMENT, 29 March 1990, and at TARAS SHEVCHENKO UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE SOCIETY, 29 March 1990. Both in Rivne, Ukraine.
◊ Keynote address: “My Mother, a Witness.” Benefit-concert on behalf of the U.S. Congress Ukraine Famine Commission, Chicago, IL, 7 May 1988.
◊ Keynote address: “A Feast of Renewal.” Banquet celebrating the Millennium of Christianity in Rus'-Ukraine, organized by the Canadian League of Ukrainian Catholics, Edmonton, 7 November 1987.
