EDUCATION
Ph.D., Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 1996
TEACHING INTERESTS
RESEARCH INTERESTS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Nation and Translation: Literary Translation and the Shaping of Modern Ukrainian Culture,” in Brian J. Baer, ed., Contexts, Subtexts, and Pretexts: Literary Translation in Eastern Europe and Russia (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011)
Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (Montreal: McGill—Queen’s University Press, 2007).
Yuri Andrukhovych, The Moscoviad [a novel, translation from the Ukrainian] (New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2008)
Guest editor, special issue of the online journal KinoKultura on Ukrainian cinema (special issue no. 9, December 2009),
Edward Said, Kul'tura i imperiializm (annotated Ukrainian translation of Culture and Imperialism; co-edited with Taras Tsymbal) (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2007)
Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry, co-edited with John High et al. (Jersey City: Talisman House, 2000).
“Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Post-Communism? The Cultures of the Former Soviet Bloc Encounter Jameson,” in Caren Irr and Ian Buchanan, eds., On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006).
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Prof. Chernetsky is currently working on a book project tentatively titled Displacement, Desire, Identity: East European Writing and the Diasporic Momentum. The book will engage with the narratives of displacement and identity-construction generated by the waves of diasporic displacement from the Russian/Soviet empire and Eastern Europe from the 1890s to the 1990s. He is particularly interested in instances of interrogation and subversion of rigid, stable identities, where diasporic displacement triggers a reworking not only of national and linguistic, but also of class, gender, and other aspects of identity. This volume is meant to initiate a dialogic engagement between Western/Third World theorizations of diaspora and the work of displaced authors with ties to Eastern Europe. The authors discussed will include Joseph Conrad, Vasyl’ Stefanyk, Vladimir Nabokov, Witold Gombrowicz, and Dubravka Ugrešić.
Prof. Chernetsky is also continuing his research on Ukrainian cinema and his literary translation projects, primarily focused on contemporary Ukrainian and Russian poetry.
Ph.D., Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 1996
TEACHING INTERESTS
- Russian language, literature, and culture
- Ukrainian language, literature, and culture
- East and Central European literatures and cultures
- Film Studies
- Gender and LGBT Studies
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Cultural aspects of globalization
- Modernist and postmodernist writing worldwide
- Postcolonial theory and postcolonial writing
- Identity and community
- Diasporic cultures
- Nationalism and ethnicity
- Cultural construction of gender and sexuality
- Literary translation
- Translation studies
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Nation and Translation: Literary Translation and the Shaping of Modern Ukrainian Culture,” in Brian J. Baer, ed., Contexts, Subtexts, and Pretexts: Literary Translation in Eastern Europe and Russia (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011)
Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (Montreal: McGill—Queen’s University Press, 2007).
Yuri Andrukhovych, The Moscoviad [a novel, translation from the Ukrainian] (New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2008)
Guest editor, special issue of the online journal KinoKultura on Ukrainian cinema (special issue no. 9, December 2009),
Edward Said, Kul'tura i imperiializm (annotated Ukrainian translation of Culture and Imperialism; co-edited with Taras Tsymbal) (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2007)
Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry, co-edited with John High et al. (Jersey City: Talisman House, 2000).
“Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Post-Communism? The Cultures of the Former Soviet Bloc Encounter Jameson,” in Caren Irr and Ian Buchanan, eds., On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006).
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Prof. Chernetsky is currently working on a book project tentatively titled Displacement, Desire, Identity: East European Writing and the Diasporic Momentum. The book will engage with the narratives of displacement and identity-construction generated by the waves of diasporic displacement from the Russian/Soviet empire and Eastern Europe from the 1890s to the 1990s. He is particularly interested in instances of interrogation and subversion of rigid, stable identities, where diasporic displacement triggers a reworking not only of national and linguistic, but also of class, gender, and other aspects of identity. This volume is meant to initiate a dialogic engagement between Western/Third World theorizations of diaspora and the work of displaced authors with ties to Eastern Europe. The authors discussed will include Joseph Conrad, Vasyl’ Stefanyk, Vladimir Nabokov, Witold Gombrowicz, and Dubravka Ugrešić.
Prof. Chernetsky is also continuing his research on Ukrainian cinema and his literary translation projects, primarily focused on contemporary Ukrainian and Russian poetry.