Second Ukrainian Writer in Residence elected
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages is very pleased to announce our second Ukrainian fellow in virtual residence, Olena Stiazhkina. Olena is a well-known Ukrainian writer and historian, who has published eleven works of fiction in Ukrainian and Russian, and numerous articles and books on modern Ukrainian history, as well as being a prolific commentator in Ukrainian and international media.
She is currently leading research fellow at the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, having previously been Professor of Slavic History in the University of Donetsk until the 2014 occupation of the city. English-language translations of her novel Cecil the Lion had to Die and her Ukraine, War, love: A Donetsk Diary are both forthcoming with Harvard this year; her collection of historical essays Zero Point Ukraine was published by Columbia University Press in 2021. Olena is also part of an ongoing research project on Ukrainian spatial history with Professor Polly Jones, which she recently wrote about in a blog for History Workshop.
This Writer in Residence scheme is funded with generous donations from TORCH, the Faculty of History, a number of Colleges (Somerville, Lady Margaret Hall, Wadham, New and University Colleges), individual donors and use of the Faculty’s own funding.
