Pavlo Mykhed
Philologist and literary critic
(January to April, 2003)
Dr. Mykhed is an Associate Professor, and Chair of the Department of Foreign Literature, and Director of the Mykola Hohol Research Center, at the Hohol State Pedagogical University in Nizhyn, Ukraine, where he has taught since 1971. He received his Ph.D. in philology from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in1981. He has published many articles on Ukrainian literature and language. His areas of interest include Ukrainian literature of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Ukrainian-Russian literary and cultural contacts, and Ukrainian studies of Russia (ukrainska rusystyka). Dr. Mykhed's research at HURI will address the Ukrainian-Russian dialogue of the nineteenth century and the re-conceptualization of the field of Russian studies from a specifically Ukrainian perspective which will incorporate the paradigms and approaches adopted by scholars of the Ukrainian diaspora. He will also be compiling an anthology of American and British studies on Mykola Hohol.
Dr. Mykhed is an Associate Professor, and Chair of the Department of Foreign Literature, and Director of the Mykola Hohol Research Center, at the Hohol State Pedagogical University in Nizhyn, Ukraine, where he has taught since 1971. He received his Ph.D. in philology from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in1981. He has published many articles on Ukrainian literature and language. His areas of interest include Ukrainian literature of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Ukrainian-Russian literary and cultural contacts, and Ukrainian studies of Russia (ukrainska rusystyka). Dr. Mykhed's research at HURI will address the Ukrainian-Russian dialogue of the nineteenth century and the re-conceptualization of the field of Russian studies from a specifically Ukrainian perspective which will incorporate the paradigms and approaches adopted by scholars of the Ukrainian diaspora. He will also be compiling an anthology of American and British studies on Mykola Hohol.