Serhiy Yakovenko
Assistant Professor in the Department of English at MacEwan University
(Academic Texts / Nonfiction Instructor)
“I look forward to working with translators aspiring to make a difference in how Ukrainian voices are heard and understood internationally.”
Sergiy (Serhiy) Yakovenko was born in Chernihiv, Ukraine. A graduate of the National Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv, he earned a Candidate of Arts and Sciences Degree from the Institute of Literary Studies (the Ukrainian National Academy) in 2002. Before receiving a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta, he taught at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv. He has been teaching English and Comparative Literature at MacEwan University since 2011, where he is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English.
He is the author, among others, of Romantics, Aesthetes, Nietzscheans: Ukrainian and Polish Literary Criticism of the Early Modernist Period (2006, in Ukrainian) and translator of Tamara Hundorova’s The Post-Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (2019).