Dmytro Yesypenko
Contact
Grad Research Assistantship, Faculty of Arts - Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Dept
- yesypenk@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Ukrainian and Polish Literature Medical Humanities
About
Dmytro Yesypenko is originally from Kaniv, Ukraine. He is doing his Ph.D. research on the epidemics in Ukrainian and Polish literatures and folklore in the Transnational and Comparative Literature program at the MLCS Department, University of Alberta. Dmytro is involved in the activities of the Kule Folklore Centre as a Research Assistant. In particular, he contributed to the publication project of Thomas and Lena Gushuls' letters, and also worked with Mykhailo Bilas' and Yar Slavutych's archives.
Dmytro co-authored “Lena and Thomas Gushul: Life in Front and behind the Camera" (jointly with Mariya Mayerchyk and Jelena Pogosjan; Edmonton: 2022–2023) and edited “Borys Hrinchenko: Povisti” (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2020), “Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn” (jointly with Alessandro Achilli and Serhy Yekelchyk; Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020) and “Oksana Kowacka. Ukrains'ka postkolonialnist' u tekstakh i kontekstakh” (jointly with Karol Kowacki; Brusturiv: Discursus, 2022).
Teaching
UKR 111: Ukrainian for beginners