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Dr. Sergiy Yakovenko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at MacEwan University, where he has been teaching since 2011. Previously, he taught as a docent at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) and as a contract instructor at the University of Alberta. He holds a Candidate of Arts and Sciences degree in Slavic Literature from the Institute of Literature (Ukraine, 2002) and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta (2015).
Dr. Yakovenko's research spans Canadian, Ukrainian, and Polish literature through the lenses of comparative literature and literary theory. His key interests include:
- Literary anthropology
- History and theory of literary criticism
- Ecocriticism
- Geopoetics
- Postcolonial studies
His publications include the monographs Romantics, Aesthetes, Nietzscheans: Ukrainian and Polish Literary Criticism of the Early Modernist Period (2006) and Poetics and Anthropology: Essays on Ukrainian and Polish Prose of the Twentieth Century (2007), both in Ukrainian, as well as numerous articles on Canadian and Slavic literature. His recent work focuses on ecological paradigms in Canadian literature and spatial-temporal representations across transnational literatures.
Dr. Yakovenko has received multiple honors, including:
- Honorable mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize (2020)
- Honor 'Meritorious for Polish Culture' (2012)
- FS Chia Doctoral Scholarship (2009-2013)
- University of Zurich Doctoral Scholarship (2008-2009)
- First Prize for Emerging Scholars' Publications (1998)
He also contributes to academic service through professional associations such as the American Comparative Literature Association, Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, and Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies, and participates in university committees like the Joint Benefits Committee at MacEwan University.
