Olha Poliukhovych

Research Scholar

Scholar and literary critic Olha Poliukhovych is Associate Professor of Literature at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Co-Founder and Managing Editor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. She was a Fulbright Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, 2017-2018; and in 2020, co-founded the New Ukrainian Academic Community, an NGO, in Kyiv. Since Russia’s brutal attacks on Ukraine, which began February 24, 2022, she has devoted herself to writing about the plight of the Ukrainians, their history and culture, with essays and dispatches published in March 2022 in Agni (“Dispatches from Ukraine”), Consequence Forum (“The Week the War Began”), and Prospect (“Reflections from Ukraine: Russia is no brother of ours”). Her conversation with Askold Melnyczuk and Mitchell Kaplan appeared the same month on the latter’s Literary Life podcast. Her latest writing, a review of Askold Melnyczuk’s The Man Who Would Not Bow & Other Stories, can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books