Mariya Donska

Mariya Donska is a researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Graz. Her work focuses on 20th-century Eastern European literatures and contemporary Ukrainian poetry, engaging with themes of intertextuality, cultural memory, and fictionality.

• Member of University of Graz's "Dimensions of Europe" profile area
• Active in interdisciplinary research networks

Research interests include:

• 20th-century Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Belarusian literature
• Fictionality vs. factuality in narrative structures
• Intertextuality and literary networks
• Praxeological approaches to cultural analysis

Her publications demonstrate engagement with post-Soviet identity construction and literary historiography. Recent projects include Ukraine interactive (2023-24) and Transit/ion: European Networks and Dynamics in Exile (2024).

Scientific awards include:

• 2024 Visiting Award for High Potentials (University of Cambridge)
• 2022 Ingeborg Ohnheiser Prize for best dissertation
• 2019 Academic Prize for best thesis
• 2009 DAAD scholarship for Comparative Literature studies