From Practitioners to Practitioners
Instructors and invited speakers and lecturers include both practitioners of Ukrainian-to-English translation and scholars of Ukrainian literature and culture and of translation. Each year, the program is designed to offer the summer institute participants a wealth of opportunities to learn from leading practicing translators and expand their knowledge of Ukrainian studies with prominent scholars in the humanities.
TUSI 2025 Instructors
Ali Kinsella
Translator, TUSI 2025 instructor (Literary Prose)
Lidia Wolanskyj
Translator, TUSI 2025 instructor (Nonfiction/Academic Texts)
Svetlana Lavochkina
Translator, TUSI 2025 instructor (Poetry)
TUSI 2025 Lecturers and Guest Speakers
Marko Robert Stech
Director of Press and Scholarly Publications, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, TUSI 2025 guest speaker
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Hüseyin Oylupinar
TUSI 2025 lecturer
George Grabowicz
Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University, TUSI 2025 lecturer
Taras Koznarsky
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, TUSI 2025 guest speaker
Maryna Dubyna
Translatorium, TUSI 2025 guest speaker
2024 Instructors and Lecturers
Mark Andryczyk
Translator, writer, Associate
Research Scholar, Ukrainian
Studies Program at Harriman Institute, Columbia University,
TUSI 2024 instructor
(Literary Prose)
Dominique Hoffman
Translator, TUSI 2024 instructor (Nonfiction/Academic Texts)
Oksana Lutsyshyna
Poet and translator, Associate Professor of Instruction in
Ukrainian Studies at the
University of Texas at Austin,
TUSI 2024 instructor
(Poetry)
Oleh Kotsyuba
Director, Print and Digital Publications, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University,
TUSI 2024 keynote speaker
Marko Robert Stech
Director of Press and Scholarly Publications, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, TUSI 2024 keynote speaker
Kacper Bartczak
Writer and translator, Professor
of English, University of Łódź,
TUSI 2024 speaker
Maria Genkin
Board Member, Razom for
Ukraine, TUSI 2024 speaker
Jerzy Jarniewicz
Poet, translator, and literary critic, Professor at the Department of British Literature and Culture, University of Łódź, TUSI 2024 speaker
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, TUSI 2024 speaker
Iryna Shuvalova
Poet and translator, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of
Oslo, Norway, TUSI 2024 speaker
Irene Sywenky
Associate Professor, Department
of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta,
TUSI 2024 speaker
Andrzej Szeptycki
Undersecretary of State, Ministry
of Science and Higher Education
of Poland, TUSI 2024 speaker