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Lecture by
Tamara Hundorova, Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University; Principal Research Fellow at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Moderated by Oleh Kotsyuba, Director of Print and Digital Publications at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom Webinar (live). Registration is required to attend online.
Reception
All attendees of this book talk are warmly invited to join us for a wine & cheese reception immediately following the event.
About the Lecture
The fact that Larysa Kosach suffered from tuberculosis is well-known but there is still no research on how the sickness affected her life and work. In her lecture, Tamara Hundorova reveals how the disease (tuberculosis) affected the writer's life and work, making her a citizen of the country of the illness for thirty years and causing her to feel "not a writer or even a person, but a surgical and orthopedic mannequin." Central to this presentation is the role of sanatorium tourism as a phenomenon of modern culture and its role in the formation of a nomadic identity, heterotopia, and exoticism in Lesya Ukrainka's narratives. The intercultural aspect, orientalism, and self-determination as the Other will also become the subject of analysis.
About the Speaker
Tamara Hundorova defended both her Candidate and Doctor of Science dissertations at Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where she is now a Corresponding Member and Principal Research Fellow of the Department of Literary Theory. She is Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is an Associate of the Ukrainian Reasearch Institute at Harvard and a member of PEN Ukraine. In 2023, she was a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University.
Dr. Hundorova is the author of eleven books including “Lesia Ukrainka. Knyhy Sybilly”(2023), The Post-Chornobyl Library. The Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (2019), Tranzytna kultura. Symptoher postkolonial’noji trauher (2013); Pisliachornobyl’s’ka biblioteka. Ukrains’kyj literaturnyj postmodernism (2005, second edition 2013); Kitsch i literatura. Travestii (2008); Proiavlennia slova. Dyskursiia rannioho ukrains’koho modernizmu (1997, second edition 2009); Franko i/ne Kameniar (2006); Femina melancholica. Stat' i kul'tura v gendernij utopii Ol'hy Kobylians'koi (2002) and others.
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