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Dr. Oleksandr Chertenko

Research fellow and part-time lecturer at the Chair of East and West Slavic Literatures 
(Prof. Dr. Dirk Uffelmann)

Office 511

Phone: +49 (0)641 99-31164

Fax: +49 (0)641 99-31169

 

Contact hour

  • By arrangement via e-mail

 

Current focus of research

  • Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian and Polish literature and culture from the 19th to the 21st century
  • Wars and identity conflicts in post-socialist countries
  • East European Postcolonial studies
  • Medicine and literature
  • Ecocriticism

 

Education and professional appointments

  • 1997–2002 — studies of German and English language and literature, National Pedagogical University (Kyiv)
  • 2002–2005 — postgraduate course at the Department of World Literature, Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv)
  • 2006 — PhD, Shevchenko Institute of Literature
  • 2005–2015 — research fellow, Department of World Literature, Shevchenko Institute of Literature
  • 2015–2019 — second degree in East European Studies (Master of Arts), Freie Universität Berlin
  • August — October 2019 — guest researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin
  • From November 2019 — research fellow (postdoc) and part-time lecturer at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Justus Liebig University Giessen

CV [English]

 

Publications

Monograph

  • Zhyttia u frahmenti: proza Maksa Frisha mizh entuziazmom i sumnivom [Living in a Fragment: Max Frisch’s Fiction between Enthusiasm and Doubt]. Kyiv: Naukova dumka 2012, 216 pp.

Edited volumes (more recently):

  • Über Grenzen [Across the Borders], Vol. 6: Perestupy kordoniv u literaturi ta kul’turi XX-XXI st. [Transgressions of Borders in Literature and Culture of the 20th and 21st Centuries]. Kyiv: Dmytro Buraho 2020 [together with Almut Hille, Petro Rychlo and Ievgeniia Voloshchuk].
  • Rivista di Estetica 1 (2018): Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Zones [together with Zhanna Nikolaeva and Sergey Troitsky].

Actual articles and chapters in edited volumes:

  • 2022 Large-Scale Projects Revisited: Ecology, Territory, and Memory in Russian and
    Belarusian Village Prose (Farewell to Matera by Valentin Rasputin and The Virgin
    Ground by Viktar Kazʹko). In: Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, Vol. 78/2, pp. 409-455.
    2021 Mit Facebook im Krieg. Ost- und südukrainische Blogs nach 2014 zwischen
    Regionalbewusstsein und (Selbst-)Kolonisierung am Beispiel von Olena Stepova und
    Boris Chersonskij [With Facebook to the War: Eastern- and Southern-Ukrainian Blogs
    after 2014 between Regionality and (Self-)Colonization (Olena Stepova and Boris
    Khersonskii)]. In: Weimarer Beiträge 3 (67), pp. 378-407.
  • 2021 [...] die Ideologie der Volksrepublik Doneck wird in der Abkürzung SSSR ihren
    Ausdruck finden. Die Rekonstruktion der Sowjetunion in Zachar Prilepins Vsjo, čto
    dolžno razrešit’sja... Chronika iduščej vojny [... the Ideology of the Donetsk People’s
    Republic Will Find Its Expression in the Abbreviation SSSR: Re-Constructing the Soviet
    Union in Zakhar Prilepin’s Vsio, chto dolzhno razreshit’sia... Khronika idushchei voiny].
    In: Iris Bauer/Yvonne Drosihn/Eva Kowollik/Tijana Matijević/Joanna Sulikowska-Fajfer
    (Hg.): Close Reading – Distant Reading. Spannungsfelder der slavistischen Literatur-
    und Kulturwissenschaften, pp. 317-328. [=Reflexionen des Gesellschaftlichen in
    Sprache und Literatur. Hallesche Beiträge, Bd. 9.] URL: https://opendata.uni-
    halle.de/bitstream/1981185920/37203/1/Reflexionen%20des%20Gesellschaftlichen_Ba
    nd%209_Close%20Reading%20%e2%80%93%20Distant%20Reading.pdf
  • 2021 Die Moskauer Sonne scheint überall. Die sowjetische Hauptstadt als Raum der
    Utopie in Das neue Moskau (1938) und Die Schweinepflegerin und der Hirt (1941) [The
    Moscow Sun Shines Everywhere: The Soviet Capital as a Utopian Space in The New
    Moscow (1938) and Swine-Herd and Stableman (1941)]. In: Studia Rossica
    Posnaniensia, Tom 46/2, S. 51-68. URL: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1837560.pdf
  • 2020. Die ukrainische Literatur zum Krieg im Donbass [Ukrainian Literature on the War
    in Donbass]. In: Ukraine-Analysen 240, pp. 2-6. URL: https://www.laender-
    analysen.de/ukraine-analysen/240/UkraineAnalysen240.pdf

    List of publications and paper presentations

     

    Ongoing research projects

    • The War in Donbass in Post-Socialist Post-Imperial Literatures (habilitation)
    • Subproject „After Masculinity: Female Perpectives on the War in Ukraine” as part of the joint project “(Un)Disciplined: Pluralizing Ukrainian Studies—Understanding the War in Eastern Ukraine” (UNDIPUS). Project duration: February 2022 to January 2026. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), program “Small Disciplines—Great Potential.” Website: https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb05/slavistik/fachrichtungen/forschung/verbundsprojekt

    Teaching

    • Winter semester 2019/20

    Topos Chernobyl: Nuclear Energy Between Cultural Trauma and Media Event (Seminar)

    • Summer semester 2020

    Wars in Post-Soviet Countries—A Literary Overview (Seminar)

    • Winter semester 2020/21

    Whom Does Gogol’ Belong to? Cultural Appropriations of Russian-Ukrainian Author (Seminar)

    •  Summer semester 2021

    Arts under Dictatorship: Socialist Realism Between Avant-Garde and Conceptualism (Seminar)

    • Summer semester 2022

    Pop Goes Protest: Pop Music and Dissent in Socialist Times and Nowadays (Seminar)

    • Winter semester 2022/23

    (Hi)Stories of Displacement and Exile in Eastern Europe and the Balkans (19th and 20th Century) [together with Prof. Dr. Nicole Immig] (Seminar)

    Re-Thinking Ukrainian Donbas in Fiction, Memoirs, and Visual Arts [together with Dr. Olha Poliukhovych, Kyiv Mohyla Akademy, Ukraine] (Seminar)

    • Summer semster 2023

    Sovietizing East-Central Europe: Ukraine, Poland, Belarus [together with Prof. Dr. Thomas Born] (Seminar)