Vitaly Chernetsky

Vitaly Chernetsky is a professor of Slavic and Eurasian studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (2007) and of numerous articles on modern and contemporary Slavic and East European literatures and cultures. His forthcoming book in Ukrainian is on Ukrainian literature and cinema. He co-edited a bilingual anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry, Letters from Ukraine (2016). His translations into English include two novels and poetry collections by Yuri Andrukhovych and Ostap Slyvynsky, and his translation of Sophia Andrukhovych’s novel Felix Austria is forthcoming. Chernetsky is the current president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US and a past president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).