Oksana Blashkiv is an academic researcher at Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University of Drohobych. She received her master’s degree in comparative literature from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University in 2002. She will be at Harvard for four months (February–May 2008) to explore the personal relationship between Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) and Dmytro Čyževs´kyj (1894–1977). Blashkiv will use the Jakobson archive at MIT, as well as the archives of American contemporaries and colleagues of both scholars, to trace the development of their relationship.