Faculty Research Fellows Talk with Yuliya Ilchuk

Yuliya Ilchuk: “Here’s your Language, Woman, Shoot from It: Ukrainian Women’s Poetry During the War”

The ongoing war in Ukraine activated many artistic processes unseen in post-Soviet culture before. In the prose fiction, it resulted in the arsenal of war diaries, memoirs, and autofiction accounts from the trenches, in poetry. It brought to the scene women voices traditionally marginalized in culture historically shaped by men. The war triggered women’s powerful witness, social critique, anger and laments, and these new roles shaped new attitudes and poetic personae of women writers. In her presentation, Associate Professor Ilchuk will focus on the war poetry of three women writers from three regions of Ukraine: Iya Kiva (Donets`k), Halyna Kruk (L`viv), and Kateryna Kalytko (Vinnytsya) whose poetry co-translator Amelia Galser (UCSD) and Professor Ilchuk have published recently.

Yuliya Ilchuk is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature.

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