Forty-Eighth Annual Shevchenko Lecture: A Different Shevchenko: What Is Kobzar Darmohrai Speaking About?
20 March 2014
Forty-Eighth Annual Shevchenko Lecture: Wednesday, March 26, 2014
A Different Shevchenko: What Is Kobzar Darmohrai Speaking About?
("Інший Шевченко, або про що говорить Кобзар Дармограй")
Speaker: Tamara Hundorova
Few people seem to know that Taras Shevchenko used to write prose as well as poetry. Although there were reasons for his prose texts to remain largely obscure to literary scholars, and even more so to the general public, this aspect of Shevchenko's rich legacy offers a unique perspective on a deep, very personal relationship between the Kobzar and his beloved fatherland — Ukraine.
Tamara Hundorova (Department of Literary Theory, Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) is an internationally renowned scholar in the fields of literary studies, modern literary theoretical concepts, modern Ukrainian literature, cultural studies, and literary criticism. She received her doctorate in philology in 1996 and became a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2003. Since 2002, she has headed of the Institute of Literature at the NAS of Ukraine. Professor Hundorova is the author of ten monographs, including Kitch i literatura. Travestiï [Kitsch and Literature: Travesties] (Kyiv, 2008) and Nevidomyi Ivan Franko. Hrani izmarahdu [The Unknown Ivan Franko: Facets of the Emerald] (Kyiv, 2006), as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and other works published both in Ukraine and abroad.
Sponsored by
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
and the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club.