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

E-mail

Contact hour

• During online semester by arrangement via e-mail

Current focus of research

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

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):

• Medicine in/as Politics in the Field of Cultural Practices [zusammen mit Sergey Troitsky]. In preparation
• 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 20^th and 21^st Centuries]. Kyiv: Dmytro Buraho 2020 [together with Almut Hille, Petro Rychlo und 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:

• Die ukrainische Literatur zum Krieg im Donbass [Ukrainian Literature on the War in Donbass]. In: Ukraine-Analysen 240 (2020), pp. 2-6. URL: https://www.laender-analysen.de/ukraine-analysen/240/UkraineAnalysen240.pdf.
• Zavoiuvannia porozhnechi. Ukraiina mizh kolonizacieiu ta travmoiu u nimets'kykh „podorozhakh na Skhidnyi front” (na prykladi shchodennyka Iozefa Liaitgeba Na kraiu viiny. Notatky z Ukraiiny, 1942) [Conquering the Void: Ukraine between Colonization and Trauma in German “Travels to the Eastern Front” (Basing on Josef Leitgeb’s Travel Report Am Rande des Krieges. Aufzeichnungen in der Ukraine, 1942]. In: Almut Hille/Peter Rychlo/Ievgeniia Voloshchuk/Alexander Chertenko (eds.): Perestupy kordoniv u literaturi ta kul’turi XX-XXI st. Kyiv: Dmytro Buraho 2020, pp. 151-179. URL: https://Buraho.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Ponad_kord-6.pdf.
• Hier gibt es keine Unschuldigen. Die Mikrokolonisierung des Donbass in Jevhen Položijs Roman Ilovajs‘k [There Are No Innocents Here: The Microcolonization of Donbass in Evhen Polozhii’s Novel Ilovais’k (2015)]. In: Porównania 1 (2019), pp. 65-80.
• Das Grenzland Belarus zwischen Europa und Russland in Artur Klinaus Roman Der Helm [Borderland Belarus between Europe and Russia in Artur Klinau’s Novel The Helmet]. In: Andree Michaelis-König (ed.): Auf den Ruinen der Imperien. Erzählte Grenzräume in der mittel- und osteuropäischen Literatur nach 1989. Berlin: Neofelis 2018, pp. 181-202.
• Re-Actualizing a Cultural Exclusion Zone. Human Experimentation and Intellectual Witness in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Suspicion and Marcel Beyer’s The Flying Foxes. In: Rivista di Estetica 1 (2018): Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Zones, pp. 98-117. URL: https://journals.openedition.org/estetica/2664.

List of publications and paper presentations

Ongoing research projects

The war in Donbass in Post-Socialist Post-Imperial Literatures (Habilitation)

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

• 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)