Tetyana Dzyadevych

Tetyana Dzyadevych

Tetyana Dzyadevych (Shklar Fellow, Fall 2010) is Assistant Professor of Literature at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Dzyadevych received a Kandydat nauk in literary studies from the Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, and a Ph.D. in East Slavic literatures from the Marie Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin. While at Harvard she will research the topic “World War II through Ukrainian Women’s Experience.” By looking at autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, and personal letters, Dzyadevych will reconstruct an image of World War II related by women and examine the discourse of memory in post-totalitarian societies from gender and postcolonial perspectives. Her most recent publications include Education of Sensibility: Some Thoughts on Postcolonialism in Ukraine and Not Only in Ukraine (Kyiv, 2007) and “Keeping Distance from Empire” (in Chinese), in Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism (Beijing, 2009).