Mariia Shuvalova is PhD Candidate and Lecturer at National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Kyiv, Ukraine). Her sphere of interest is contemporary Ukrainian literature, short story theory, and comparative studies. In 2019-2020 she was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. She is an acquisition editor of The Ukrainian Language Open Assess Series (Academic Studies Press, Boston, MA), co-founder of NGO New Ukrainian Academic Community, and a Young Ukrainian Scholars Network board member. Her papers have been published by, among other outlets, in Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, Spheres of Culture, The Ukrainian Quarterly, and other outlets.