James C. PearceTetyana Dzyadevych is a researcher, commentator, and analyst of contemporary Russian and Ukrainian culture and literature. Currently, she works at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before, she was an assistant professor of Russian and Easern European studies at Grinnell College (USA) and a visiting scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Tetyana Dzyadevych was born and raised in Kyiv (Ukraine). She received intellectual training and education in Europe and the USA. She holds a Ph.D. in literary theory from the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin (Poland) and Slavic studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago (USA). Her area of interest is Russian and Ukrainian literature of 19th-21st c., politics and art; and visual and performing arts and pop culture. Her scholarship primarily focuses on works of the late Soviet period, perestroika, and post-Soviet period. Dr. Dzyadevych studies cultural production to explore and explain how art and literature shape and reflect their audiences' political identities. Read More Read Less