Executing a Renaissance: The Poetological Nation of Ukraine

Dr. Josef Wallmannsberger is Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Kassel. A native Austrian, he was educated in Classics, Linguistics, and Philosophy at the universities of Innsbruck, Salzburg, Konstanz, and Stanford, and taught at the universities of Leicester, Innsbruck, and Siegen. He was inducted to the highly arcane order of aficionados of Ukrainian neoclassicist literature during conversations with Polish and Ukrainian scholars in the basement cafeteria at Humboldt Univesity, East Berlin. Both the city and the scholar have fittingly opted to continue their existence in parallel imaginaries ever open for semiotic walkabouts. Relevant publications in this context include Kritische Apparate (Semiotica 2002), and Heteroglossaries: Philological Inventions of Ukraine (Innsbruck UP 2023).

Olga Bertelsen is an Assistant Professor of Intelligence Studies at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona. She is the author of The House of Writers in Ukraine, the 1930s: Conceived, Lived, Perceived (2013), the editor of Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine (2017), and a member of the editorial boards of Scripta Historica, Kyiv-Mohyla Arts and Humanities, Kultura Ukrainy, and Naukovyi visnyk KPU Skovorody. Seriia “Filosofiia.”