Olha Vozniuk

Olha Voznyuk is a literary and cultural scholar, lecturer, and translator, specializing in Slavic and Comparative literature studies. Her research focuses on imagology, trauma and memory studies, identity, cinema, and women’s studies. She earned her first PhD in Comparative Literature from the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, with a dissertation devoted to the Polish–Ukrainian cooperation in exile after the WWII. Her second PhD in Slavic Studies from the University of Vienna investigated Habsburg Galician literature in Ukrainian, Polish, and German anthologies During her academic career she has been the recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships, including among them UNESCO and the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University. Currently she is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Slavonic Studies at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, where her ongoing research focuses on the transition of Ukrainian identity in the post-Maidan period.