Dmytro Yesypenko

Dmytro Yesypenko is a research assistant and coordinator of the Sustainable Ukrainian Canadian Heritage Program at the Kule Folklore Centre. He is a researcher and educator specializing in Ukrainian Studies, Slavic cultures, and languages. Dmytro holds a Candidate of Sciences degree in Philology from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Transnational and Comparative Literatures at the University of Alberta. With over 15 years of teaching experience, he has developed and delivered courses and invited lectures on Ukrainian language, culture, and Polish-Ukrainian relations at institutions in Canada, the U.S., Australia, and Ukraine. Dmytro's research focuses on epidemics in Ukrainian and Polish literatures, as well as broader topics in cultural studies, medical humanities, and the historical and literary developments of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Dmytro co-authored "Lena and Thomas Gushul: Life in Front and behind the Camera" (jointly with Mariya Mayerchyk and Jelena Pogosjan; Edmonton: 2022–2023) and edited "Borys Hrinchenko: Novels" (in Ukrainian; Kyiv: Krytyka, 2020), "Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn" (jointly with Alessandro Achilli and Serhy Yekelchyk; Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020) and "Oksana Kowacka. Ukrainian Postcoloniality in Texts and Contexts" (in Ukrainian; jointly with Karol Kowacki; Brusturiv: Discourse, 2022). Some of his other publications are available via the link.

Email: yesypenk@ualberta.ca