Oksana Lutsyshyna
Lecturer — Ph.D., University of Georgia

Contact
- E-mail: lutsyshyna@austin.utexas.edu
- Office: BUR 478
- Office Hours: Wednesdays noon- 2 p.m., and by appointment
- Campus Mail Code: F3600
Interests
Ukrainian Modernism, Bruno Schulz, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Postcolonial Theory/Decolonization, Queer Theory, Feminist Theory, Language Teaching Methodology
Biography
I completed my undergraduate education in Ukraine before coming to the United States in 2001. Currently, I hold an MA in French and another one in Women's Studies from the University of South Florida, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia. My dissertation is a study of Bruno Schulz's prose in the framework of Walter Benjamin's theories of modernity. I also write fiction and poetry, mostly in Ukrainian, and have just published my third novel with a publisher in Lviv. I do have a book of poetry in the English translation, coming up in December 2019 in Boston.
I have an extensive background in literature, having studied and taught courses on several national traditions (Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, French), critical theory (Benjamin – especially The Arcades Project, Barthes, Foucault, theories of modernity, feminism), and a social science (Women’s Studies). I also did graduate coursework in language teaching methodology, though chose not to finish the doctoral program, switching to literature. I consider myself a comparatist in the broadest sense of the word, operating within and across national literary traditions, and using a variety of theoretical approaches.
I teach content courses that deal with the women's writings, literatures of the region, and transformations of the post-totalitarian ("post-Soviet") societies.
My current book-length academic project is a study of Bruno Schulz (Poland) and Valerian Pidmohylny (Ukraine) and the discourse of film.