Yuliya V. Ladygina

Yuliya V. Ladygina is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University specializing in Eastern European literatures and cultures, with a focus on cultural memory and cultural exchange. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, San Diego (2013), and holds M.A. and B.A. degrees in German Philology from T.H. Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Her research examines the hybrid nature of modern war and its mediatization through Ukrainian cinema. She is the author of Bridging East and West: Ol'ha Kobylians'ka, Ukraine's Pioneering Modernist (University of Toronto Press, 2019) and is currently working on her second book, The Reel Story of Russia's War against Ukraine.

Professor Ladygina has published in numerous refereed journals including Harvard Ukrainian Studies, East European Jewish Affairs, and Journal in Cinema and Media Studies. She has taught courses on Russian and comparative literature, film, rhetorical writing, and 19th-20th century European intellectual history at institutions including Harvard University and Williams College.