Dmytro Drozdovskyi

Dmytro Ihorovych Drozdovskyi (Ukrainian: Дмитро́ І́горович Дроздо́вський, born 18 February 1987, Odesa, Ukrainian SSR) is a prominent Ukrainian scientist, literary critic, writer, editor, and translator. Since 2012, he has been working at the position of the managing editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian magazine of translations "Vsesvit". He is a PhD academic fellow of the Department of world literature of the Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Dr. Drozdovskyi is a member of the Supreme Council of the Writer's Union of Ukraine. In 2013, he has competed his PhD dissertation "Reception of William Shakespeare in Ukrainian emigration literature process of 1940-1960-s". Dr. Drozdovskyi is a scholar whose academic goals are in the field of contemporary English and British literature, European studies, Shakespearean studies and cultural explanations of post-postmodernism which combines modern and postmodern aesthetics.^[1]

“I am of the opinion that the age of post-modernism has passed and post-post modernism has changed the world politically, socially and culturally."^[2]

He was a participant of the XIX and XX-th Congresses of the International Association of Comparative Literature (Seoul 2010; Paris 2013) and the International Shakespearean Congress.^[3] Dr. Drozdovskyi also investigated the historical method of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi.^[4][5]

Dr. Drozdovskyi is an active pro-European^[6][7] and pro-US^[8] thinker and critic^[9] in Ukraine. He was one of the first to struggle against Kivalov-Kolesnichenko anti-Ukrainian language law^[10][11][12] and he was in opposition to ex-Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine D. Tabachnyk regime.^[13]

Some of D.Drozdovskyi's poems were translated into French and published in anthologies.^[14]

Together with Dr. Rory Finnin he initiated the annual Cambridge Vsesvit Readings at the University of Cambridge.^[15]

Education

D. Drozdovskyi belongs to alumni of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He finished his Master program of Arts and Humanities in 2010 (specialty Theory, history of literature and comparative studies). He has been working for 5 years as a press-secretary of the NaUKMA.

Works

Code of the Future (Kyiv, 2006, supervisor of the book is Prof. Oxana Pachlovska)

Meridian of Understanding (Kyiv, 2011)

Between Demonic and Historiosophic: William Shakespeare in Modern and Post-Postmodern Outlines (Kyiv, 2014)

Articles

Postmodern Literature: Ruined Aesthetics or New Frontiers? // Journal of Literature and Art Studies. — Vol. 1. Number 2. — August 2011. — Р. 132–143.

The Life after the End: Dialogues with the Classics // The International Journal of the Humanities. — Vol.8, Number 12. — 2011. — P. 111–120.

Interview

Interview with Prof. Krystyna Kujawinska-Courtney by Dr Dmytro Dozdovskyi

References