Taras Koznarsky
Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and Director of the Danylo Husar Struk Program in Ukrainian Literature at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (TUSI Guest Speaker)
Presentation title:
“Translating the Sacred: Modern Translations of Psalms”
Dr Koznarsky’s lecture examines early modern translations of psalms into Ukrainian and looks at the ways the sacred register was shaped in the Ukrainian language.
Taras Koznarsky is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto where he teaches courses in Ukrainian, Russian, and comparative Slavic studies. His research focuses on Ukrainian-Russian literary relationships in the nineteenth century and the text of Kyiv in Ukrainian, Russian, Jewish, and Polish cultural imaginations. His recent publications include articles on Mykola Markevych’s historiography and language choices, on Bely’s Petersburg and urbanism in the modernist novel, and on the case of Beilis as reflected in serialized newspaper novels at the time of the trial (1913).