Ukrainian Literary Modernism (with Drs. Halyna Babak and Yuliya Ilchuk)

Show Notes:This week, Cameron dives into the various forces in Ukrainian literature, theory, and criticism shortly after the turn of the 20th century. To help him wrap his head around the topic. Drs. Halyna Babak and Yuliya Ilchuk join the podcast to talk about their new readers Ukrainian Literary Modernism of the 1910s to Mid-1930s, Vol. 1 &2.Buy either volume of Ukrainian Literary Modernism here (https://www.academicstudiespress.com/9798897831197/).Yuliya Ilchuk is an Associate Professor and the Director of Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at Stanford University. Her first awards-winning book, Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity ( published by the University of Toronto Press, 2021), revises Gogol’s identity and texts as ambivalent and hybrid. Her most recent book project, The Vanished: Memory, Temporality, Identity in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine shifts the discussion from collective remembrance to the cultural dimensions of forgetting. Ilchuk has also published several translations of Ukrainian poetry and literary criticism in tandem with Amelia Glaser and by herself.  Halyna Babak is an assistant professor at the University of Konstanz in Germany. Her research explores the intellectual history, literary theory, and literary production of 20th-century Ukraine within the broader context of Soviet and East European political and cultural history. She is the author of the monograph (in co-authorship with Alexander Dmitriev) Atlantida sovetskogo nacmodernizma. Formal'nyj metod v Ukraine (1920-e – načalo 1930-ch). (Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2021).This podcast is proudly A.I.-free. Any instances of intelligence are entirely human in origin.The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Our links: Website | Discord⁠ | PatreonSocials: Instagram⁠ | BlueSky | Twitter⁠ | FacebookQuestions, comments, threats? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands