News and Events
August 2022: Dr. Kotsyuba launched Ukraïnica: The Primary Database of Ukrainian Studies—a new digital resource to help college and high school educators locate and use Ukrainian content in their teaching.
September 2020: Dr. Kotsyuba unveiled HURI Books, the new website of HURI's book publishing program, whose design and programming he directed.
February 2019: Dr. Kotsyuba unveils the new website of the journal Harvard Ukrainian Studies at https://husj.harvard.edu, whose creation he oversaw. Read more here.
August 2018: Dr. Kotsyuba will teach two courses on Vladimir Nabokov as the Visiting Lecturer in the Russian Department at Wellesley College. read more here.
February 2018: Dr. Oleh Kotsyuba has joined the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard as its new Manager of Publications. Read more here.
November 2017: Presentation at the Convention of the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (Chicago, IL). Panel "Ukrainian Poetry of the 1970s and 1980s: Towards the Creation of an Alternative Cultural Identity. Presentation title: "Changing the Framework: Oleh Lysheha’s Interlocutors in Western Literature."
September 2017: Dr. Kotsyuba was awarded the Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Research Fellowship by the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University.
November 2016: Explore creative appropriations of Russian 19th century literature by students in Dr. Kotsyuba's Slavic 145 class. Proceed here to the Creative Appropriations site.
November 17-20, 2016: Dr. Kotsyuba presents at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in Washington, DC. Paper title: "Decommunized and Happy: Literary Reactions to Disappearing Soviet Symbols in Post-Maidan Ukraine, 2013-2016." Abstract and other information is available here.
September 2016: Dr. Kotsyuba offers two courses in the fall term of 2016. "Russian Literature in Translation: The 19th Century Tradition" (Slavic 145) and "Narrative Strategies in Nikolai Gogol's Short Fiction" (Slavic 98a/158, Junior Tutorial for Slavic concentrators).
July 13, 2016: Dr. Kotsyuba offers a poetry workshop at Harvard Ukrainian Institute: "On Poetry and Poets: Oleh Lysheha and His Creative Circle." Anatoly Sykley, who participated in this workshop, responds to it here.
July 2016: Dr. Kotsyuba is reappointed as College Fellow in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
August 2015: Oleh Kotsyuba was appointed College Fellow at Harvard University. Read more here.
November 12, 2014: Presentation at Harvard Slavic Department's Literary Colloquium titled "Between Traditionalism and Innovation: Soviet Ukrainian Literature of the 1980s"
October 2014: Presentation at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences workshop titled "Traditionalism in Soviet Ukrainian Prose of the 1980s: Volodymyr Drozd's Lystia zemli (The Leaves of Earth)"
September 2014: Launch of Krytyka's English website
July 2014: Workshop on contemporary Ukrainian literature for the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute: "The Secret of Success: Contemporary Ukrainian Literature in European Perspective"
April 2014: Roundtable discussion at Williams College on the Crimean crisis.