Yakiv Bystrov

Yakiv Bystrov is a Professor and Chair of the Department of English Philology at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. His research focuses on Holocaust literature, autobiographical narratives, cognitive linguistics, and intermedial storytelling. He has authored monographs such as Understanding Fiction: Language and Style in Literary Texts (2014) and English Biographical Narrative in the Scope of Cognitive Linguistics and Synergetics (2016). He currently leads a project at the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena on Ukraine’s literary legacy of Holocaust survivors.

Research Interests:

• Representations of the Holocaust in literature
• Cognitive approaches to biographical narratives
• Intermedial storytelling techniques
• Translation studies

Awards:

• Paul Celan Fellowship (IWM, Vienna, 2019)

Grants and Advising: No explicit grants mentioned, but his research is supported by fellowships like the Paul Celan Fellowship. No advisees listed in the provided text.

Labs/Teams: Collaborates with Jagiellonian University (Krakow) and the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena on intercultural projects.