About Tamara:

I graduated from Kyiv university and defended both my Candidate and Doctor dissertations at Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. I am affiliated as Principal Scholar Fellow with the Institute of Literature and am an Associate Fellow of Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. I am a Corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine and the member of PEN Ukraine.

I am the author of eleven books including “Lesia Ukrainka. Knyhy Sybilly”(2023), The Post-Chornobyl Library. The Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (2019), Tranzytna kultura. Symptomy postkolonial’noji traumy (2013); Pisliachornobyl’s’ka biblioteka. Ukrains’kyj literaturnyj postmodernism (2005, second edition 2013); Kitsch i literatura. Travestii (2008); Proiavlennia slova. Dyskursiia rannioho ukrains’koho modernizmu (1997, second edition 2009); Franko i/ne Kameniar (2006); Femina melancholica. Stat' i kul'tura v gendernij utopii Ol'hy Kobylians'koi (2002) and others.

My field of interests is large, and covers such areas as modernism, postmodernism, feminism, postcolonial studies and history of Ukrainian literature.

I have taught courses at Harvard University (USA), Toronto University (Canada), Greifswald University (Germany), Ukrainian Free University (Germany), Kyiv-Mohyla University (Ukraine), Kyiv National University (Ukraine).

I have received the following awards, grants and fellowships: Fulbright Scholar (1998, 2009), Visiting scholar of Monash university (Australia, 1991) and a recipient of Yacyk Distinguished Fellowship (2009), Shklar fellowship (HURI, 2001-2002), Foreign visitors fellowship (Hokkaido University, 2004), MUNK School of Global Affair fellowship (University of Toronto, 2017),  and Fellow of Philipp Schwartz-Initiative of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Justus Liebig University Giessen, 2022 - Jan 2023).

Currently, I am a Visiting Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Slavic languages and literatures at Princeton university. I teach a course for graduate students “Gendering the Literary Canon:  Symbolic Autobiography in Ukrainian Literature” and am conducting a research  project “Decolonization and Ukrainian Occidentalism of the 1946-1948:  culture and geopolitics.”