About Professor Olena Haleta’s internship at Harvard University

Professor Olena Haleta is a professor of literary theory and comparative literature at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and professor of cultural anthropology at Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukraine). She has researched and taught modern and contemporary Ukrainian literature at universities and academic institutions in the USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Austria, Poland, Croatia, and Czech Republic.

She has worked as a co-organizer of international projects dedicated to the intellectual history of the twentieth century and the role of art and literature in crisis situations and times of transition. She is an author, co-author, and co-editor of eight books on the literary history of modern Ukraine including Seeing Ukraine: Independent Literature of 1991-2021 (special issue of the academic journal Književna smotra).

Her monograph From Anthology To Ontology: Anthology as a Means of Representation of Ukrainian Literature of the late Nineteenth – early Twenty-first Centuries received several awards in Ukraine. Her forthcoming book New Writings: Ukrainian Literature in an Anthropological Perspective analyzes current changes in the understanding of the concept of literature and focuses attention on “blurred” literary genres as unique forms of expression determined by both aesthetic searches and a combination of historical, cultural, and personal circumstances.

For the spring 2023 term, she is teaching:

SLAVIC 163: Understanding Ukraine: Personal Voices and Collective Imagination
This course will introduce students to contemporary Ukrainian literature as a collection of individual voices that, through practices of collective reading and interpretation, are transformed into a common experience. Beginning with a discussion of the modern, modernist, and contemporary, we will explore contemporary literature as post-totalitarian, post-colonial and post-modern. Note: Primarily for undergraduate students. All readings are in English, and no prior knowledge of Ukraine or Ukrainian is required.

SLAVIC 267: Modern Ukrainian Literature: Canon, Community, and Cultural Experience
This course will examine modern Ukrainian literature as evidence of belonging to the common European cultural space and as the basis of current cultural identity. Discussion of varied literary texts will reveal the changes in the literary tradition that have taken place throughout the 20th century, from neo-romanticism to postmodernism, including intellectual drama and philosophical theater, the avant-garde movement, neo-baroque, existentialism, surrealism, and neomodernism. Note: Primarily for graduate students. All readings are in English.

For more course information: https://courses.my.harvard.edu.