Dialogue Pro(For) Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Talk by Olha Chervinska (in Russian)

Olha Chervinska’s presentation is devoted to the monograph Dialogue About/For Dostoevsky (2021), co-authored with the Ukrainian literary scholar Roman Dzyk. The talk explores an important dimension of academic work: the emergence of a creative concept.

The “impulse of narrative,” discussed by Claude Lévi-Strauss, often becomes a decisive factor in shaping the success or failure of a research project. In this engagement with the monumental and complex figure of Dostoevsky, that impulse first arose from a chance conversation with a talented student.

Over nearly two decades, this conversation developed into an intellectual axis around which later discussions took shape, unfolding alongside a range of theoretical ideas that the co-authors were developing at the same time. Their work became a search for answers to questions that had not previously been posed by other scholars.

When: Tuesday, 12 May, 19:00-20:30 (BST)

Where: Bowett Room, Queens' College, University of Cambridge, Silver St, Cambridge CB3 9ET

Language: Russian

Format: In-person only

Tickets: £7 — Standard; £5 — CamRuSS Members; Free – Students

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Olha Chervinska is a Doctor of Science and Professor at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine, where she has served as Head of the Department of Foreign Literature and Theory of Literature since 2001. She has been affiliated with the university since 1971, progressing from librarian and teaching assistant to full professor, a title she received in 2003.

Her research spans classical and receptive poetics, hermeneutics, genre studies, literary transitivity, Russian Silver Age literature, and contemporary foreign literature. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Issues of Literary Studies and has served on the editorial boards of five international philological journals in Ukraine, Poland, and the Czech Republic.

Professor Chervinska has authored more than 130 publications, including three monographs and contributions to 14 collective volumes. She has supervised 14 doctoral dissertations and participated in more than 30 international conferences, delivering keynote addresses in Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, and beyond. She holds associate status at the University of Athens, Department of Slavic Studies, and serves as scientific consultant to the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature in Tbilisi.

In 2019, she was awarded the honorary title of Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine in recognition of her outstanding contribution to philological scholarship and higher education.

Event Venue

Bowett Room, Queens' College, University of Cambridge, Silver St, Cambridge CB3 9ET, Bowett Room, Queen’s College, University of Cambridge, Silver St, Cambridge CB3 9ET, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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