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Duration of Stay: 6-31 July 2026 | Visiting Fellow based at the Graduate School, Landshuter Str. 4

Lecture in the GS-LSC Research Colloquium: Traumatic Rhymes: Contemporary Ukrainian Refugee Experience and the Cultural Legacies of the 1940s Displacement - 9 July, 14:15, Room 017 at IOS

Vitaly Chernetsky is Professor at the Department of Slavic, German, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. His research and teaching focuses on Ukrainian literature and film, Russian literature and film, cultural aspects of globalization; identity and community; diasporic cultures. postmodernism and postcolonialism. gender and sexuality in Slavic and East European cultures.

A native of Odesa, Ukraine, Professor Chernetsky completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to the University of Kansas, he taught at Columbia University and at Miami University in Ohio. His research focuses on modern and contemporary cultures (literature, film, popular culture) of Ukraine, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, considered in a broader comparative/cross-regional and interdisciplinary contexts. He has also been researching globalization and its cultural aspects, postmodernism/postmodernity, Modernism/modernity, postcolonial theory & writing, questions of identity & community, diasporic cultures, nationalism & ethnicity, and broader issues in literary & cultural theory, cultural studies, film studies, feminist theory, gender and queer studies, and translation studies.

Chernetsky is the author of the book Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (2007), of five edited or co-edited volumes, and numerous articles and reviews. A book in Ukrainian, Intersections and Breakthroughs: Ukrainian Literature and Cinema between the Global and the Local,is forthcoming. His published translations from Ukrainian and Russian into English include two novels, two poetry collections, and numerous shorter literary works, as well as scholarly articles and historical documents.

Photo: Kyle Parker