Modern and feminist Ukrainian literature with Tamara Hundorova | Literatura 2024

Ukrainian modernism and feminism: Olha Kobylianska and Lesia Ukrainka

In the second seminar of the Literatura course, Professor Tamara Hundorova, Principal Scholar Fellow at the Institute of Literature (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) will acquaint you with pioneering Ukrainian feminists in literature. 

‘The prominent Ukrainian female authors Lesia Ukrainka (1871–1913) and Olha Kobylianska (1863–1942) play a significant role in the development of Ukrainian literary modernism. Their writing is closely intertwined to illuminate a multiplicity of concerns, ranging from gender to race, culture to nature, feminism to nationalism, revealing the deeply autobiographical nature of their works.'

Professor Hundorova is a literary critic and cultural researcher whose research interests include contemporary and modern Ukrainian literature, modernism, postmodernism, postcolonial criticism, Chornobyl, and feminism. You can find out more about her here.