Yuliya Ilchuk

Yuliya Ilchuk is an Associate Professor and the Director of Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at Stanford University. Her major research interests fall under the broad heading of cultural exchange, interaction, and borrowing between Russia and Ukraine. Her first triple-award-winning book, Nikolai Gogol’s Hybrid Performance (University of Toronto Press, 2021), revises Gogol’s identity and texts as ambivalent and hybrid. Ilchuk’s most recent book project, The Vanished: Memory, Temporality, Identity in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine, revisits the major issues of memory studies and shifts the discussion from collective remembrance to the cultural dimensions of forgetting. Ilchuk has also published several translations of Ukrainian poetry and edited and translated works for the anthology Ukrainian Literary Modernism: A Critical Reader (forthcoming with Academic Studies Press, 2025).

Translations in London Ukrainian Review:

Iya Kiva, ‘a frozen sea’

Contact: yilchuk@stanford.edu

Tanya Savchynska

• Translator: Tanya Savchynska• Translators

Tanya Savchynska is a literary translator working between Ukrainian and English. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College, where she studied on a Fulbright Scholarship. She was a 2019 resident at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre in Canada and a 2023 resident at the Art Omi Translation Lab in the US. Her writing and translations have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, Apofenie, and elsewhere. Her translation of Kateryna Zarembo’s Ukrainian Sunrise: Stories of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions from the Early 2000s was published by Academic Studies Press in 2024.

Martin Lohrer
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Culture as Security

• Issue 5 (October 2025)

This issue of the London Ukrainian Review takes a look at culture as a matter of national security. Highlighting the voices of cultural figures who defend Ukraine with arms, it also examines culture as a tool of Russia’s imperialist expansion, all the while insisting on a bond between cultural familiarity and political solidarity.

Sasha Dovzhyk
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