Hnatiuk is an associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Warsaw. Her publications include books and articles on topics such as Ukrainian baroque hymnal traditions, Ukrainian-Polish literary connections, and the geopolitics of Ukrainian literature. She has also been the editor or translator of several collections of Ukrainian poetry and Ukrainian scholarly articles into Polish. While at HURI, Hnatiuk will be completing a book on the transformation of Ukrainian cultural identity in the twentieth century—particularly attitudes towards cultural modernization and Europeanization—as seen through literature.