Dmytro Yesypenko

Dmytro Yesypenko is a researcher at the University of Alberta, where he serves as project coordinator for the Sustainable Ukrainian Canadian Heritage Network at the Kule Folklore Centre and a research assistant at CIUS. He holds a Candidate of Sciences in Philology from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and is completing a PhD in Transnational and Comparative Literatures. His dissertation examines epidemic narratives in nineteenth-century Ukrainian and Polish literatures as frameworks for understanding collective crisis. His research spans medical humanities, diaspora studies, book history, and digital humanities, with publications on Ukrainian literary history, postcoloniality, and photographic heritage.