Prof. Dr. Tamara Hundorova

Prof. Dr. Tamara Hundorova is Chair of the Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Associate of Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She published on a wide range of subjects and is the author of numerous, importand and highly influential books, chapters and essays. 

Prof. Hundorova's publications include "Транзитна культура. Симптоми постколоніальної травми" (2013) [Transit Culture: Symptoms of Postcolonial Trauma], "Кіч і література. Травестії" (2008) [Kitsch and Literature: Travesties], "ПроЯвлення слова. Дискурсія раннього українського модернізму" (1997; 2009) [The Emerging Word: The Discourse of Early Ukrainian Modernism], "Стать і культура в гендерній утопії Ольги Кобилянської" (2002) [Femina melancholica. Sex and Culture in the Gender Utopia of Olha Kobylianska], "Франко – не Каменяр" (2006) [Franko Not the Stonecutter], "The Post-Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s" (American Studies Press, Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, 2009), and  and numerous articles on Ukrainian literature, modernism, postmodernism, gender studies, postcolonial trauma and kitsch.

Prof. Hundorova taught at Toronto University, Harvard Summer School, Greifswald Ukrainicum, Ukrainian Free University, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Kyiv National University. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, a Petro Jacyk Distinguished Fellowship (Harvard University), a visiting professorship at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (Hokkaido University) and the MUNK School of Global Affairs (Toronto University), and a fellowship at Monash University (Australia).