Graduate Teaching Assistant

office: 84 McReynolds
phone: 573-882-3460
email: matviyenkos@yahoo.com
office hours: M 1:00-2:00,
W 1:00-3:00, and by appointment

Research and teaching areas:

Svitlana Matviyenko

Svitlana Matviyenko is a PhD candidate studying visual and media theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis (with Prof. Ellie Ragland). Her research focuses on photography, early cinema, experimental film, and cyberculture. Born in Kamianets-Podilsky, Ukraine, she earned her BA (2000) in Comparative Literature and MA (2001) in theory of literature from Kyiv Mohyla Academy (Kiev, Ukraine). Apart from more than 20 scholarly publications in Ukrainian and Polish, she is an author of numerous materials in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, the main Ukrainian weekly, Krytyka, a political and cultural monthly, and KINOKOLO. A widely published literary and film critic, she was also an editor-in-chief of Literatura Plus, a newspaper of the Ukrainian Writers Association (2001--2003) and a founder /editor-in-chief of Komentar, a political and cultural monthly (2003 - 2004). She received the Renaissance Foundation Scholarship for the Harvard University Summer School - HURI (1998), an award from the Austrian Embassy in Ukraine for the best essay about Rainer Maria Rilke (1999), High Education Support Program (HUSP) Research Scholarship (Budapest, 2003), Fulbright Scholarship (2004-2006), and Pace Award from the University of Missouri, Columbia (2006). In the summer of 2005, Svitlana participated in the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University (Prof. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s seminar). Her prose was included into She is Unknown. The Anthology of Ukrainian Women’s Prose and Essays of the Second Half of the 20th Century (ed. Vasyl Gabor, Piramida, Lviv, 2005.) Svitlana is a co-founder (with Virlana Tkacz) of ‘ROUND US poetry & performance series that has been on since 2002 in Kiev and now in New York. Her own experimental video and photography addresses the medium as an essential part of an art work. Svitlana curates a new series of experimental performance, launched at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York.

Websites

• Dzerkalo Tyzhnia
• ‘ROUND US poetry & performance series
• KINOKOLO
• the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York
  

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