Aleksander Kratochvil
Literary critic and philologist
(January to June, 2003)
Dr. Kratochvil is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic studies, ethnology and East European history from the Albert Ludwigs University (Freiburg, Germany) in 1998. He has taught introduction to literary studies; translation studies, Czech literature since 1945, Ukrainian literature of the nineteenth century, modern Ukrainian literature, Ukrainian ethno- and sociolinguistics at the University of Freiburg, University of Plsen (Czech Republic), and at the University of Greifswald (Germany). He has published two books and a number of scholarly articles on Ukrainian language and literature. His areas of interest include Ukrainian and Czech literature of the twentieth century, and sociolinguistics. While at HURI, Dr. Kratochvil will address Ukrainian post-modernism as presented in works of literature by Yuri.Andrukhovych, Yuri Izdryk, Vasyl Kozhelianko, Bohda Zholdak, Oles Ulianenko) and compare them with parallel phenomena in the Czech Republic in works by Jachym.Topol, M. Urban, Michal Viewegh) as well as against a wider East and Central European context.
Dr. Kratochvil is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic studies, ethnology and East European history from the Albert Ludwigs University (Freiburg, Germany) in 1998. He has taught introduction to literary studies; translation studies, Czech literature since 1945, Ukrainian literature of the nineteenth century, modern Ukrainian literature, Ukrainian ethno- and sociolinguistics at the University of Freiburg, University of Plsen (Czech Republic), and at the University of Greifswald (Germany). He has published two books and a number of scholarly articles on Ukrainian language and literature. His areas of interest include Ukrainian and Czech literature of the twentieth century, and sociolinguistics. While at HURI, Dr. Kratochvil will address Ukrainian post-modernism as presented in works of literature by Yuri.Andrukhovych, Yuri Izdryk, Vasyl Kozhelianko, Bohda Zholdak, Oles Ulianenko) and compare them with parallel phenomena in the Czech Republic in works by Jachym.Topol, M. Urban, Michal Viewegh) as well as against a wider East and Central European context.