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YULIYA ILCHUK

1150 Welch Road, apt. 531, Palo Alto, CA 94304 [email protected] · (617) 599-0929

EDUCATION Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literature University of Southern California, 2009 Dissertation: “Gogol’s Hybrid Performance: the Creation, Reception and Editing of Evenings on a Farm near Dikan’ka (Vechera na khutore bliz’ Dikan’ki (1830s-)” Committee: Professors Marcus Levitt (chair), Thomas Seifrid, Sarah Pratt, Roberto Diaz Secondary field: French Literary Theory and Criticism GPA 4.00 Fellow Candidate of Sciences, Literary Theory National University of “-Mohyla Academy,” 2000 ABD, passed qualifying exams Specialist, Public Relations Institute of Journalism, Kyiv National University, 1999 Master of Arts, Culture (Literary Theory, History and Comparative Studies) National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,” 1998 Thesis topic: “Author Theory and the Structural-Subjective Analysis of the Text (on the Material of A. Chekhov’s, I. Franko’s, and Ia. Iwaszkiewicz’s Prose Fiction”) GPA 3.74 Specialist, Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language and English National Pedagogical University, 1996 Thesis topic: “The Role of ’s Narrative Tradition in the Development of Aleksandr Pushkin’s Prose Fiction” Graduated with honors (summa cum laude), GPA 4.00

Other Professional Training Professional Training Program for Assistant Lecturers of Foreign Languages, USC, August 2001

RESEARCH INTERESTS 19th, 20th, and 21st Russian and Ukrainian Literature and Culture, Translation Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Sociolinguistics, Language Pedagogy, Digital Humanities

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, September 2015 – present Visiting Scholar, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, January – June 2015

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Russian Literature Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, January – July 2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, University of North Dakota, August 2013 – December 2013 Visiting Assistant Professor, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Colgate University, July 2010 – July 2013 Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, USC, 2010 Assistant Lecturer of Russian, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, USC 2001 – 2004, 2006 – 2009 Ukrainian Teacher, Ukrainian Saturday School, Los Angeles, 2000 – 2004, 2006 – 2007 Copywriter, Business-Link, Kyiv, 2006 Editor-in-Chief, Newspaper “Visti,” Ukrainian Community, Los Angeles, 2000 – 2004 English Teacher, Secondary School #283, Kyiv, 1995 – 1998

TEACHING EXPERIENCE English Language: Beginners and Intermediate levels of ESL, Kyiv School #283 (1995 – 1998) Business English, Golden Age School, Kyiv (Fall 2014) FLAC Russian, Colgate University (Spring 2012, Spring 2013) Beginning Russian I, USC (Spring 2007), UND (Fall 2013) Beginning Russian II, USC (Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Fall 2006, Fall 2009, Spring 2010) Intermediate Russian I, USC (Fall 2002, Spring 2004, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008), Colgate University (Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012), UND (Fall 2013) Intermediate Russian II, USC (Fall 2001, Spring 2010), Colgate University (Spring 2012) Advanced Russian: Language and Fiction, Colgate University (Fall 2010, Fall 2012) Advanced Russian: Conversational Skills, Colgate University (Fall 2011) Elementary and Intermediate Ukrainian for visiting American students (individual sessions) at National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,” (Fall 2014) Ukrainian for Ukrainian Heritage Learners, Ukrainian Saturday School “Ridna shkola,” Los Angeles (2000-2004, 2006-2007) Elementary Ukrainian for the students of Russian, Colgate University (Spring 2013) Russian and Eastern European Literature and Culture Cultural Hybridity in Central-Eastern Europe (Fall 2016) Eighteenth-Century , Stanford University (Spring 2016) Slavic Literature and Culture after Stalin’s Death, Stanford University (Spring 2016) The Great Russian Novel, Stanford University (Winter 2016) City Myths in Russian and , University of Chicago (Spring 2014) 2

Russian Literature: From to Postmodernism, University of Chicago (Spring 2014) Graduate Seminar: Realism in , University of Chicago (Winter 2014) Graduate Seminar: Nikolai Gogol, University of Chicago (Winter 2014) Senior Seminar: Nikolai Gogol’s , Colgate University (Spring 2011) Russian Literature and Music, USC (Fall 2009) General Education IntroSem “ at a Crossroads,” Stanford University (Autumn 2015) Core: The Challenges of Modernity, Colgate University (Spring 2013) Core Russia: Communities and Identities, Colgate University (Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013)

PUBLICATIONS “Hearing the Voice of Donbas: Art and Literature as Forms of Cultural Protest during the War,” Nationalities Papers, Fall 2016 “How Ukrainian Peasants Learned to Read: The Reading Culture in Eastern Ukraine in the Late Imperial Period,” Ukraina Moderna: An International Intellectual Journal, Winter 2016 Translation of Serhii Zhadan’s poetry in DoveTales, an International Journal of the Arts, (Fall 2015) “Varlam Shalamov” in Literary Criticism, volume Short Story Criticism. Columbia, SC: Layman Poupard Publishing for Cengage/Gale, 2014 “Deconstructing the Empire, Mapping the Identity: Post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian Literary Travelogue (on the Material of Victor Erofeev’s and Yurii Andrukhovych’s Texts)” in Skhid- Zakhid: Istoryko-kul’turologichnyi zbirnyk, Issue 16. Spetsial’ne vydannia “Neo-Anti- Colonialism vs. Neo-Imperialism: Relevance of Postcolonialism in Post-Soviet Space.” Kharkiv: TOV “NTMT,” 2013 “Nikolai Gogol’s Self-Fashioning in the 1830s: The Postcolonial Perspective” in Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Vol. LI, Nos. 2-3, June-September 2009 “Performing Hybrid Identity: the Editing History of Gogol’s Vechera na khutore bliz' Dikan'ki (1831-1832)” in Studies in Slavic Cultures (SISC), Issue VI: Performance, 2008 “‘Ne prodaetsia vdokhnoven’e, no mozhno rukopis' prodat'’: Authorship and Copyright in Russian Literature of the 1820-1830s” in Perspectives on Slavistics, 2007 “Avtor iak henerator smyslu v teksti: do problemy interpretatsii ‘Povistei Belkina’ A.S. Pushkina” (Author as the meaning generator in the text: towards the interpretation of A. S. Pushkin’s Belkin’s Tales) in Naukovi zapysky: Filologiia 17. Kyiv: Stylos, 1999 “’Smert'’ chy ‘vidrodzhennia’: problema avtora v postmoderniy literaturi” (“Death” or “Rebirth:” The Problem of the Author in Postmodern Literature) in Magisterium: Literaturoznavchi studii 2, Kyiv: Vydavnychyi Dim “Pedahohika,” 1999 “Teoria avtora i strukturno-sub'ektnyi analiz tekstu” (The Theory of the Author and the Structural-Subjective Analysis of the Text (on the Material of A. Chekhov’s, I. Franko’s, Ia. Iwaszkiewicz’s Prose Fiction) in Naukovi zapysky: Filologiia 4. Kyiv: Vydavnychyi Dim “Academia,” 1998

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Work in Progress Book project: Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybridity Digital humanities projects: corpus of Gogol’s literary language in R-studio; social media data mining to examine “in- and outgroup” dynamics of othering in the social network groups on the occupied territories in Eastern Ukraine; corpus of the “Little Russian” tales; cross-cultural analysis of the race and ethnicity in the Central-Eastern European novels

PRESENTATIONS “Ingroup-Outgroup Dynamics of ‘Othering’ in the Donetsk People’s Republic’s Social Media Groups,” ASEEES Summer Convention, Lviv, June 26-28, 2016 “Donbas Disintegrated: War Poetry and Poets from Both Sides of the Frontline,” 40th Annual Stanford-Berkeley Conference “Dislocation,” Stanford University, March 4, 2016 “Rewriting the Hybrid Self: Gogol’s Revisions of (1835, 1842),” an invited talk at USC, Los Angeles, November 13, 2015 “Hearing the Voice of Donbas: Art and Literature as Forms of Cultural Protest during the War,” The ASN National Convention, Columbia University, New York, April 25, 2015 “Hybridity, Mimicry, and Self-Translation as Mykola Gogol’s Resistance Strategies,” The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, November 15, 2014 “Integrating Research into Teaching: Geonarrative Projects in the Undergraduate Education,” AATSEEL Annual Conference, Chicago, January 9-12, 2014 “Ukrainian Translations of Nikolai Gogol’s “Taras Bulba” and Their Role in Shaping Ukrainian Identities from 1850 to the Present,” ASEEES National Convention, Boston, November 21-24, 2013 “The Use of I>Clickers in Russian Language Classroom,” AATSEEL Annual Conference, Boston, January 3-6, 2013 “Apostates,” “Turnskins” and Other “Mongrels:” Ukrainian Intellectual in of the 1830s-1850s,” ASEEES National Convention, New Orleans, November 15-18, 2012 “Faddei Bulgarin’s “Durnye vremena: ocherki russkikh nravov”: Mobility, Mimicry, and National Identity,” AATSEEL Annual Conference, Pasadena, CA, January 6-9, 2011 “Lost in Translation? Ukrainian Translations of Gogol’s Texts: Practice, Politics, National Identity” at Soyuz 2010 Symposium “Old and New Discourses and Ideologies of Power: Postsocialist Perspectives,” Northwestern University, Evanston, April 8-10, 2010 “Deconstructing the Empire, Remapping Europe: Post-Soviet National Identity in Viktor Erofeev’s and Yurii Andrukhovych’s Texts” at The College Commons Series “At the Edge of Empire: Spaces, Borders and Boundaries in Central Europe and Beyond,” USC, Los Angeles, December 2009-March 2010 “The Problem of Narrative Performance in Nikolai Gogol’s Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki (Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka),” AATSEEL Annual Conference, San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008

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“The Formation of Hybrid Identities in Russian Imperial Culture: The Case of Orest Somov and Vasily Narezhny,” AAASS National Convention, New Orleans, November 16-18, 2007 “‘Ne prodaetsia vdokhnoven’e, no mozhno rukopis' prodat'’: Authorship and Copyright in Russian Literature of the 1820-1830s,” Perspective on Slavistics, Leuven, Belgium, September 16, 2004 “Literary Mystifications of Russian ,” AATSEEL Annual Conference, Coronado, California, December 28, 2003 “Towards the Problem of the Author in Bakhtin,” AATSEEL Annual Conference, New York, December 30, 2002 “The Creation of the Lyrical Persona in Early Russian Modernism,” the California Slavic Graduate Student Colloquium, Stanford University, April 7, 2002

AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS, FELLOWSHIPS The Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellowship, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2015 Torch Medal for Excellence in Teaching, Colgate University, 2013 Academic Achievement Award, Office of International Services, USC, 2009 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Award, 2008 Summer Dissertation Research and Writing Award, USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, 2008 Summer Research Travel Grant, USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, 2007 Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, USC Strategic Theme Summer Supplement Award, 2004 Conference Travel Grant, USC Graduate and Professional Student Senate, 2002-2009 College Graduate Merit Award, 2000 – 2005 Smoloskyp Fellowship, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1998-1999

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Panel Discussant, “Russian and Polish Solutions to Narrating Trauma,” ASEEES National Convention, San Antonio, November 20-23, 2014 Panel Chair, “Russian-Ukrainian Cultural Intersections,” AATSEEL Annual Conference, Chicago, January 9-12, 2014 Panel Discussant, “Chekhov,” AATSEEL Annual Conference, Chicago, January 9-12, 2014 Panel Chair, “Topics in Experimental Cinema and Digital Media,” ASEEES National Convention, Boston, November 21-24, 2013 Panel Organizer, “Taras Bulba” Reterritorialized: Translations, Adaptations, Perversions,” ASEEES National Convention, Boston, November 21-24, 2013 Abstracts Reviewer, AATSEEL Annual Conference, 2010-present Conference Organizer, USC College Commons Series “At the Edge of Empire: Spaces, Borders and Boundaries in Central Europe and Beyond,” USC, 2009 Panel Chair, “Censorship/Taboos in Russian Visual Culture,” AAASS National Convention, 2007 Conference Organizer, California Slavic Graduate Student Colloquium, USC, 2001

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

LANGUAGE SKILLS Russian, Ukrainian (native), English (near native), German, French, Italian (basic conversational and reading skills), Old (reading knowledge)

COMPUTER SKILLS Windows 13 (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Promt, LingvoSoft Translator, Adobe Acrobat. Adobe Photoshop, UltraEdit, Microsoft Publisher, HTML, Beyond Compare, Compare Suite, AntConc, R-studio, Gephi

REFERENCES Gabriella Safran, Stanford University, [email protected], (650) 723-4414 Alice Nakhimovsky, Colgate University, [email protected], (315) 228-7274 Marcus Levitt, University of Southern California, [email protected], (213) 740-2735 Sarah Pratt, University of Southern California, [email protected], (213) 740-2735 Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California, [email protected], (213) 740-2735 Tamara Hundorova, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, [email protected]

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