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Tetyana Dzyadevych serves as Assistant Professor in the Russian Department at Grinnell College, specializing in contemporary Ukrainian and Russian cultural production from the late Soviet period through the post-Soviet era. Her research interrogates how literature and visual arts shape political identities and national consciousness in Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on decolonization processes and epistemological frameworks within cultural texts.
- Ph.D. in Slavic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago (2019). Dissertation: "Political Subjectivities in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine through the Lens of Literature". Completed graduate concentrations in Gender and Women Studies and Central and Eastern European Studies.
- Ph.D. in Eastern Slavic Literatures, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University of Lublin, Poland. Dissertation: "The Russian Empire as Self and Other in the Literary Works of Adam Mickiewicz, Alexander Pushkin and Taras Shevchenko."
- Master of Cultural Studies (Honors), National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. Field: Theory and History of Literature, Comparative Studies.
- Specialist Degree in Philology, Ukrainian State Pedagogical University. Field: Ukrainian and Russian Languages and Literature.
Her scholarly work bridges Russian/Ukrainian literary analysis, postcolonial theory, and visual culture studies, examining how artistic production navigates imperial legacies and constructs new political subjectivities. Current projects include monograph research on post-Soviet literary responses to political transformation (Voices of Political Revival) and edited collections addressing nostalgia in Eastern European arts. Her methodological approach combines close textual reading with cultural anthropology to reveal how aesthetic forms mediate historical trauma and identity formation.
Recent publications demonstrate escalating focus on Ukrainian decolonization narratives, indigenous language politics in Russia, and gendered representations of historical violence. She employs comparative frameworks across Russian, Ukrainian, and Central European contexts while increasingly incorporating feminist and postcolonial lenses. Her work on Crimea and Soviet propaganda films reveals how cultural artifacts serve as battlegrounds for competing historical memories and political claims.
Professor Dzyadevych teaches courses on contemporary Ukrainian culture, Soviet/Russian film propaganda, and advanced Russian language, while organizing the Eastern European Film Club to foster campus engagement with the region's cinematic heritage. Her active research agenda suggests ongoing scholarly contributions to understanding cultural politics in times of geopolitical rupture.
