Olena Haleta

Position: Professor, The Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literary Studies

Scientific degree: Doctor of Philological Sciences

Academic status: Professor

Phone (office): (032)239-46-30

Email: olena.haleta@lnu.edu.ua

Web page: philology.lnu.edu.ua

Google Scholar profile: scholar.google.com

Профіль ORCID: orcid.org

Academia.edu profile: lnulviv.academia.edu

Research interests

  • Literary theory
  • Literary anthropology
  • Genetic criticism
  • Ukrainian literary modernism and avant-garde
  • Contemporary Ukrainian literature

Publications

Books:
• From Anthology To Ontology: anthology as a means of representation of Ukrainian Literature of the late nineteenth – the early twenty-first centuries [monograph]. Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2015. 640 p. (UA with ENG summary) (Awards: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Publishing Grant; Lviv Book Forum Prize 2015; LitAscent Book Prize 2015; Book Prize 2015 of the National Writer’s Union of Ukraine and Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Science of Ukraine)
• Ed. with Tamara Ǧundorova, Alla Tatarenko, Dariya Pavlešen, Uljana Fedoriv. Književna smotra: Časopis za svjetsku književnost. Godiste LIII/2021 broj 202 (4): Vidieti Ukrajinu: Neovisna književnost 1991.-2021. S. 13-24. https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/30709 (HRV)
• Ed. with Z. Rybchynska and Y. Hulevych. The “University Dialogs” series, 19 issues since 2006. (UA with ENG summary)
• Ed. with Z. Rybchynska, Y. Hulevych, N. Babalyk. Charhorod: Poetry by Bohdan Ihor Antonych, paintings by Oleh Rybchynskyj. Lviv: VSL, 2013. 112 p. (UA)
• Ed. with Z. Rybchynska and Y. Hulevych. Histories and/of Literatures: Collected Essays. Lviv : Centre for the Humanities, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv ; Kyiv : Smoloskyp, 2010. 364 p. (“Solo Singing – New Voices: Lecture in commemoration of Solomiya Pavlychko», № 4). (UA with ENG summary)
• Ed. with Z. Rybchynska and Y. Hulevych. Irony: Collected Essays. Lviv: Centre for the Humanities, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Kyiv, 2006. 238 p. (“Solo Singing – New Voices. Lecture in commemoration of Solomiya Pavlychko”, № 3). (UA with ENG summary)
• Ed. with Y. Hulevych. Sappho: Collected Essays. Lviv: Litopys, 2005. 320 p. (“Solo Singing – New Voices. Lecture in commemoration of Solomiya Pavlychko”, № 2) (UA with ENG summary)
• Ed. with Z. Rybchynska. Formalism: Collected Essays. Lviv: Litopys, 2004. 144 p. (“Solo Singing – New Voices. Lecture in commemoration of Solomiya Pavlychko”, №1) (UA)
• Ed. Love Experience and Pure Mind Criticism. Valeryan Pidmohylnyi: texts and the conflict of interpretations. Кyiv: Fact, 2003. 432 p. (UA)
• Valeryan Pidmohylnyi: works, illustrations, comments, tasks, and tests. Lviv: Vseuvyto, 2001. 72 p. (UA)
• Ed. with I. Starovoyt. “And Nothing Happened”. Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 1999. Part 1, 2. 303, 324 p.
• Ed. with I. Starovoyt. The Phenomenon of Textuality in Modern Culture. Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 1996. 184 p.
• Ed. with I. Starovoyt. The Criteria of Social and Aesthetic Value of a Literary Text. Lviv: LNU, 1996. 114 p.

Selected articles:
• “Joanna the Wife of Chuza” by Lesya Ukrainka as a New Model of Communication in Modern Ukrainian Literature // Przestrzenie Teorii. – Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2021. – Vol 36. – P. 291-309. https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/30709 (ENG)
• Kanon i zajednica: (re)konceptualizacija ukrajinske književnosti razdoblja nezavisnosti // Književna smotra: Časopis za svjetsku književnost / Urednice Tamara Ǧundorova, Olena Ǧaleta, Alla tatarenko, Dariya Pavlešen, Uljana Fedoriv. – Godiste LIII/2021 broj 202 (4): Vidieti Ukrajinu: Neovisna književnost 1991.-2021. – S. 13-24. https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/30709 (HRV)
• Poet on the Other Bank (I): Poetics of Affect in the Prose of Bohdan Ihor Antonych // Slovo i Chas [Word and Time]. Kyiv, 2021. – Вип. 1 (715). – P. 56-71. (UA)
• Poet on the Other Bank (II): Poetics of Affect in the Prose of Bohdan Ihor Antonych // Slovo i Chas [Word and Time]. Kyiv, 2021. Vol. 2 (716). P. 53-67. (UA)
• Sofia Yablonska – Die Stimme des anderen Geschlechts aus einer anderen Welt // Yablonska, Sofia. Der Charme von Marokko. Koeln: Kupido Literaturverlag, 2020. S. 113-125. (GER)
• Mined Words: An Un-Imaginable Reality and the Search for a New Language in the Poetry of Maidan // Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn / Ed. by Alessandro Achilli, Serhy Yekelchyk, and Dmytro Yesypenko. Brookline, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2020. P. 618-638. (ENG)
• Instead of a Novel: Sophia Yablonska’s Travelogues in the History of Modern Ukrainian Literature // Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History. 2020. Vol. 14. P. 78-103. (ENG) URL: https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/aspasia/14/1/asp140107.xml
• A Writer or a Creator of the Textual World: Anthology as a Mirror of the Post-WWII Ukrainian Literature // Porównania – Comparisons: A journal on comparative literature and interdisciplinary studies / red. Bogusław Bakuła. № 23: Artistic mythologies in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II. Poznań, 2018. P. 47-62. (ENG)
• Fleck and Lviv: Returning // Ludwik Fleck and his “thought collectives”: Book of abstracts. Lviv, 2019. P. 13-15. (ENG)
• “Leap into the abyss”: Literary Criticism of Bruno Schulz as a Literary Anthropology // Bruno Schulz and Contemporary Cultural Theory / ed. Vira Meniok. Drohobych, 2018. P. 215-228. (UA)
• “Older and Younger” or “Old and New”: Generational Approach to Literature in Works by Yuri Mezhenko // Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Philology. Lviv: LNU, 2017. Is. 67. Part 2. P. 56-67. (UA)
• History of Literature as a Practice of Re-Reading // Wspólnota wyobrażona: Pisarki Europy Środkowej wobec problemów literackich, społecznych i politycznych lat 1914-1945. Warszawa: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, 2017. S. 501-509. (PL)
• The Own, Alien, and Alienated: Kyiv of the 1920s in search for cultural identity (based on the Yuri Mezhenko archive) // Obce / swoje: Miasto i wieś w kulturze Białorusi, Polski, Rosji, Ukrainy. Kraków: Uniwersytet Jagielloński, 2017. S. 109-122. (UA)
• The Concept of Collection: in search for a new humanitarian terminology // Ukraina Moderna [Modern Ukraine]: international intellectual magazine. 2016. http://uamoderna.com/md/haleta-collection-humanities (UA)
• Imagined Galicia: a specific of literary landscape // Alien/native: city and willage in Ukrainian literature and culture of XX–XXI wieku. Krakow, 2015. P. 197-222. (UA)
• Ukrainian Literature: between Ukraine and Literature // Pomiędzy/Між/Между/Between/Zwischen/Entre: Polish-Ukrainian academic studies. Wrocław: Uniwersytet Wrocławski, 2015. # 1. P. 273-288. (UA)
• Again, as if for the First Time // Krytyka Magazine. Kyiv, 2015. Year XIX, Issue 3-4 (213-214).http://krytyka.com/en/articles/new-york-group-again-if-first-time (ENG)
• A literary railway junction: the train to L’viv // Prace kulturoznawcze / Red. Krzysztof Łukasiewicz, Izolda Topp. – Wrocław, 2015. # 17: Przewodniki w kulturze. S. 143-158. (PL)
• Non-existing city, or New York: an anthology as a means of representation of the New York Group // Spheres of Culture: Journal of Philological, Historical, Social and Media Communication, Political Science and Cultural Studies. Vol. VIII. Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodovska University in Lublin, 2014. P. 175-188. (UA)
• The regressive outlook of socialist realism: the soviet anthological project of Ukrainian literature // Contemporary Literary Studies: in memoriam V. Fesenko. Is. 11. Kyiv: KNLU, 2014. P. 160-179. (UA)
• Eccentric Literary Criticism: From Theory of Literature to Literary Anthropology // Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Philology. Lviv: LNU, 2014. Is. 60. Part 2. P. 46-58. (UA)
• Socratus from Drohobych: Bruno Schulz’s Symbolical Biography in memoirs by Andrzej Chciuk // Bruno Schulz as Philosopher and Literary Theorist: Materials of the V International Bruno Schulz Festival in Drohobych. Ed. V. Meniok. Drohobych: Kolo, 2014. P. 504-521. (UA)
• Literary CombiNation: Memory and Space in Contemporary Ukrainian Anthologies // Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies. Vol. 2013 5(2). P. 71-82. (ENG)
• The Valley of Narcissi: Ukrainian love literary anthologies // Actual problems of Slavic Studies. Series: Linguistics and Literary Studies. Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, 2013. Is. XXVII. Part. 1. P. 101-120. (UA)
• Two Worlds or New Literary Space? Ukrainian Immigration Literature in the Mirror of Anthologies // Spheres of Culture: Journal of Philological, Historical, Social and Media Communication, Political Science and Cultural Studies. Vol. I. Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, 2013. P. 118-126. (UA)
• The Glass Bead Game vs Game of Millions: Literature and Football // Scientific Works: Scientific-Methodological Magazine. Vol. 193. Is. 181. Mykolaiv: Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University, 2012. P. 6-13. (UA)
• “Executed Renaissance”: from the History of Metaphor to the Metaphor of History // Word and Time. Kyiv: Ukrainian Academy of Science, 2012. # 8. P. 58-65. (UA)
• An Anthropologist Arrives to the Meeting Place // Krytyka Magazine. Kyiv, 2012. # 3 (173). P. 24-25. (UA)

Translations:
Translated from English to Ukrainian
• Pavlyshyn, Marko. Modern Literature and the Construction of National Identity as European: The Case of Ukraine // Pavlyshyn, Marko. Literature, Nation, and Modernity. Lviv: Centre for the Humanities; Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2013. 88 p. P. 51-85. (“University Dialogs”, 18)
• Hutcheon, Linda. Irony, Nostalgia, and Postmodern [Іронія, ностальгія і постмодерн] // Irony: Collected Essays / Compiled by Olena Haleta, Yevhen Hulevych and Zoryana Rybchynska (Centre for the Humanities, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv). Lviv-Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2006. 238 p. P. 169-186. (“Solo Singing – New Voices”, № 3)
Translated from Polish to Ukrainian
• Borkowska, Grażyna. Anthology of the female prose or Florigelum // Modernists: anthology of Polish female prose of the interwar period. Lviv, 2018. P. 5-24.
• Nycz, Ryszard. Text World: Poststructuralism and Literature Studies. Lviv, 2007. 330 p.
• Nycz, Ryszard. Anthropology of Literature. Cultural Studies of Literature. Poetics of Experience. – Lviv: Centre for the Humanities; Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2007. 64 p. (“University Dialogs”, 4)
• Mencwel, Andrzej. The Bridge and the Front Wall // Krytyka. Kyiv, 2004. P. 17-20.
• Kiyovskyi, Andrzej. The Borders of Literature // 12 Polish Essays. Kyiv, 2001. P. 96-113.
• Szymborska, Wisłwska. Nobel Speech // Ї: Independent Culture Studies Journal. 1997.Vol. 10.: Ukraine – Poland at the End of the Century. P. 1997. P. 116-121.

Biography

2016-Present – Professor, Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literary Studies, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
2002-2016 – Associate Professor, Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literary Studies, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
2000-2002 – Assistant Professor, Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literary Studies, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

2022 – Visiting Professor, Warsaw University, Poland
2021, 2019, 2015-2016 – Visiting Professor, Jagiellonian University, Poland
2019, 2018, 2017, 2015 – Visiting Professor, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
2018 – Visiting Professor, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
2015 – Visiting Professor, Zagreb University, Croatia

Projects

  • Fellowships and international projects:

2022 – Visiting Research Fellow, Vector Stiftung, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Germany

2020 – Woskob Fellow, HURI, Harvard University, USA

2019-2020 – Research Grant Believe in Yourself, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine

2019 – Visiting Lector, Workshop zur Wissenschaftgeschichte in Mitteleuropa. Hiedelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften / Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany

2019 – Member of Steering Committee, International project Ludwik Flek und seine Denkkkolektive”, Lviv, Ukraine (supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2018/2019 – UCU Rector Award for the best academic publication

2018 – Visiting Lecture, Swedish Institute project “Facilitating the participation of Ukraine in European Research Area and Erasmus+”, University of Tartu, Estonia

2018 – Expert, International training Weltliteratur weltweit, University of Göttingen, Germany

2017-2018 – Member of Steering Committee, International Winder Academy for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers Revisiting the Nation: Transcultural contact zones in Eastern Europe (Bucharest, Romania; Prisma Ukraina, Forum Transregionale Studien, Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE), University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, New Europe College; Bucharest, Romania)

2017 – ASEEES Regional Scholar Travel Grant, Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies 2017 Annual Convention, Chicago, USA

2017 – Expert, Dahlem Postdoc Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Since 2016– Expert, U.S.-Ukrainian Fulbright Commission

2015 – Member of Steering Committee, International Winter Academy for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers Beyond History and Identity: New Perspectives of Aesthetics, Politics and Society in Eastern Europe (Forum Transregionale Studien and Max Weber Stiftung, Deutsche Geistwissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, Berlin, Germany)

2015 – Expert, International Symposium Historical and Cultural Narratives. Rivalries and Entanglements in Eastern Europe, Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen, Germany

2015 – Co-organizer with Prof. Susanne Frank, German-Ukrainian research and educational project The Potential of Art and Literature in the Context of Political Crisis (supported by DAAD)

2015 – ICCEES Travel Grant, The Ninth World Congress of International Council for Central and East European Studies in Makuhari, Japan

2014-2015 – Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Publishig Grant for a Project “From Anthology To Ontology: Anthology as a Means of the Representation of the Ukrainian Literature of the Late 19th – Early 21st Century: Monograph”

2013-2014 – Visiting Research Fellow, European Community Mobility Programme “Erasmus Mundus”, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

2012 – Visiting Research Fellow, OeAD’s Scholarship (Oesterreichischer Austauschdienst), Vienna University, Austria

2011 – Visiting Research Fellow, Fulbright Research Fellow, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, NYC, USA

2010-2011 – Visiting Research Fellow, Fulbright-Kennan Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., USA

2009 – Shklar Fellow, HURI, Harvard University, USA

2009 – Visiting Research Fellow, Petro Jacyk Visiting Scholar, CERES, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada

2008 – American Council of Learned Societies, Research Grant in the Humanities

2006 – Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Publishing Grant for a Project “Histories of/and Literatures”

2004 – Fellowship at the Yu. Mianowski Foundation, Warsaw University, Poland

 

Selected conference papers and open lectures:

  • Ślady donikąd: kronika entropii literaturoznawczej w diariuszu Jurija Meżenki w latach 20. XX wieku // Podmioty bezczynności: konferencja stowarzyszenia teoretyczno-literackiego “Parabaza”. Chęciny, 17-19 czerwca 2022 roku.
  • Czytając Ukrainę: Ołena Hałeta, Adam Pomorski, Marcin Gaczkowski. Museum literatury, Warszawa, 18 maja 2022.
  • Cannon and Community: (re)conceptualization of Ukrainian literature of the Independence period // Katedra ukrainistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. May 16, 2022.
  • Ukrainian Literary Criticism of the 1920s: Yurii Mezhenko’s Diary as Self-articulation // International conference “100th Anniversary of Ukrainian Formalism”, Europa Uniwersitaet Viadrina – The University of Kansas, April 28-30.
  • Literaturoznawstwo ukraińskie // Koło Naukowe “Parabaza”, Wydział Polonistyki UW, 29 marca 2022.
  • Independent reading: Yuri Mezhenko’s Archive as a personal project and historical projection // Independence. Archive. Prognosis. Ukraine in 1991-2021 and Beyond: A Conference of the Ukrainian Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, University of Melbourne / online event, 3-5 February 2022.
  • From Textual Genesis to Affective Poetics: Unfinished Novel by Bohdan Ihor Antonych // International Seminar “Ukrainian Literature Through the Genetic Lens”, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Faculty of Polish Studies, Centre for Creativity Research, December 2, 2021.
  • Shevchenko in the Context of Modernism: Yurii Mezhenko’s Cultural Project // 40th Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference, Shevchenko Scientific Society, NYC, USA, March 2020.
  • Instead of a Novel: Yuri Mezhenko’s Archive as a Personap Project and Historical Projection // Taras Shevchenko International conference, Indiana University, USA, March 6-7, 2020.
  • Representing Galicia / Lviv as Multicultural Collection: open lecture // Humboldt University of Berlin, June 26, 2019.
  • A Writer, or a Creator of the Textual World: reading Ukrainian literature: open lecture // Humboldt University of Berlin, June 25, 2019.
  • Ukrainian Literature: Canon and Transgression // Rethinking Ukrainian Studies: Locally, Regionally, Transnationally. Frankfurt (Oder) / Słubice, May 16-17, 2019.
  • Without a novel: travelogues by Sophia Yablonska and Ukrainian literature // Jagiellonian University, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Krakow, Poland, April 18, 2019.
  • A Writer, or a Creator of the Textual World: reading Ukrainian literature // Open lecture, Hiedelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften – Universitaet Heidelberg, January 25, 2019.
  • Galicia/Lviv as Multicultural Collection: strategies of representation (from literary anthologies to digital map) // Workshop zur Wissenschaftgeschichte in Mitteleuropa. – Hiedelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften – Universitaet Heidelberg, January 24, 2019.
  • Subjective Image of the Objective World: Czech Literary Anthologies of the Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature // International conference on Ukrainian Studies, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, November 11, 2018.
  • Eccentric Literary Criticism: From Literary Theory to Literary Anthropology E // Open lecture, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, November 8, 2018.
  • Ukrainian Cultural Building of the 20th century: Literature and Library as “Revolutionary Projects” by Yuri Mezhenko // Open lecture, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, November 7, 2018.
  • Ukrainian “National Building” as a Cultural Project: between imperialism and totalitarianism of the 20th century // Third Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, Tartu University, June 10-12, 2018.
  • Voice of “the second sex” from “the second world”: transgressive strategies in travelogues by Sophia Yablonska of the 1930s // Open lecture, Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities, Humboldt University of Berlin, May 25, 2018.
  • Olena Haleta, with Susanne Frank and Miruna Troncota. Testing the Limits – Language, Nation and the Other: Young Eastern European Poetry
// International Winder Academy for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers “Revisiting the Nation: Transcultural contact zones in Eastern Europe”, February 27, 2018, Bucharest.
  • “Border crossing” as a Life and Literary Strategy in the Ukrainian Literature of the Interwar Period in Travelogues by Sophia Yablonska // ASEEES 49th Annual Convention, Chicago IL, USA, November 9-12, 2017.
  • Ukrainian Futurism: Kyiv and Kharkiv as new cultural spaces of 1920’s // Open lecture for a project “Revolution revisited”; Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, Juni 14, 2017.
  • Indescribable reality: articulation of death in contemporary Ukrainian literature // Thanatos: international conference, Wroclaw, May 11-12, 2017.
  • Art and Revolution: Between Freedom and Crisis // Open lecture for Prisma Ukraїna, Forum Transregionale Studien, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, May 3, 2017.
  • Traditional Building: National Library as a “Revolutionary Project” by Yuri Mezhenko // Ukrainian Statehood 1917-1921: The Impact of Institutions and Individuals on Ukrainian Culture and Scholarship: International conference, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, NYC, USA, February 24-25, 2017.
  • Our own, alien, and alieneted: Kyiv of 1920s in a search of a cultural identity // International conference “Strange/native II. City and village in the literature and cultur in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Russia”. – Krakow, October 20-21, 2016.
  • Traveling Women: search for self, meet with other // International Conference “Imagined communities: Women writers from the Central Europe towards literary, social, and political problems of 1914-1945”, Warsaw, April 21-22, 2016.
  • City and Revolution: everyday life and everyday writing in Kyiv of 1920s // 2016 BASEES Annual Conference. – Cambridge University, UK, 2016, April 2-4, 2016.
  • Literary Maidan: an un-imagined reality and a search of a new language // World Congress 2015 ICCEES, Makuhari, Japan, August 3-8, 2015.
  • Der romantische Dnepr/Dnipro: Nikolaj V. Gogol’ – Taras Shevchenko. Ukrainische und russische Perspektive // Open lecture at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, May 19, 2015. (with prof. Susi K. Frank)
  • The River Poltva: Myth and Reality // Open lecture at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, May 5, 2015.
  • Mined Words: Poetry in War // Internationale Konferenz “Poezie der (a-)sozialitaet: Mitteleuropäische Dichtung nach dem Ende des Literaturzentrismus”. Institut für Slawistik (Kosmos Workshop), Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Deutschland, 19.-20. März 2015.

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