Mgr. Galina Babak, Ph.D.

Education

• 6/2020 – PhD in Slavic literatures. Department of East-European Studies. Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic). Supervisor – Dr. Tereza Chlaňová.
• 01/ 2020–06/2020. Visiting PhD student at University of Tartu, Estonia. Department of Slavic Studies. Supervised by Associate Professor Roman Leibov.
• 01/2018–06/2018. PhD Associated at Queen Mary University of London. School of Languages, Linguistics and Film. Supervised by Professor Galin Tihanov.
• 10/2015 – 04/2016. Visiting PhD student at Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg. Department of Slavic Studies. Supervised by Professor Urs Heftrich (ERASMUS+).
• 2012–2014. Charles University, Prague. Department of East-European Studies, MA (Czech Republic). Supervisor – Dr. Tereza Chlaňová.
• 2009–2010. Karazin National University. Department of Ukrainian Language and Literature, MA (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
• 2005–2009. Karazin National University. Department of Ukrainian Language and Literature, BA (Kharkiv, Ukraine).

Research Interests

• Modern literary theory, comparative literatures,
• history of Ukraine, history of Ukrainian scholarly migration,
• history of ideas, history of science.

Research Projects since 2010

• Masaryk Institute and Archives of Czech Academy of Science. “Literary Science in Exile: Ukrainian Scholars and Scholarly Infrastructure in Czechoslovak First Republic.”
• Team member:  Lumina Quaeruntur “‘Images of science’ in Czechoslovakia 1918–1945–1968” at Masaryk Institute and Archives of Czech Academy of Science.
• Free University Berlin, Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities – Doing Literature in a Global Perspective.” “National academic identity in exile: Ukrainian literary scholars in interwar Prague”
• „European Times (EUTIM)” at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder. “Ukrainian Formalism and its European Context.”
• Gerda Henkel Fellowship Program at the Center Advanced Study Sofia (Bulgaria). “Embracing Modernism: Soviet Ukrainian Literature and Russian Modernist Literary Theory (1920s – the beginning of 1930s)”.
• Pontica Magna Fellowship at the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study (Bucharest). “Politics of Cultural Transfer in Soviet Ukrainian Literature and Literary Theory in 1920s – the beginning of 1930s: National Identity and Cultural Modernization”.
• GAUK č. 884119. “Reception of Russian Formalism in Ukrainian Culture and National Politics of the USSR in 1919–1939”.
• Specifický vysokoškolský výzkum (SVV 260479), Charles University “Literature as Performative Writing”
• Integration Center Prague Grant. Project “UkraJINÁ”: Photo Stories of Ukrainians in Czech Republic.

Teaching practice since 2010

• Department of Slavic Studies at University of Vienna, Visiting Professor (10/2022–12/2022)
• Faculty of Arts at Charles University, External Lecturer (2014–2015; 2017–2018).

Membership

• Czech Association of Ukrainianists (Czech Republic)

Most Important Publications since 2010:

Monograph

• Галина Бабак, Александр Дмитриев. Атлантида советского нацмодернизма Формальный метод в Украине (1920-е — начало 1930-х). Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2021. 787 с.  [Atlantis of Soviet National Modernism: Formal Method in Ukraine in the 1920s–beginning of the 1930s].

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Ahapii Shamrai in search of synthetic theory of literature: 1920s. Slovo i Chas. 2022. № 2. Pp. 28–44.
• Roman Jakobson and the Development of the Formal Method in Ukraine in the 1920s. Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 2022. Vol. 39. № 1–2.
• (With A. Ustinov). Харьковский кружок «формалистов» и ОПОЯЗ [Kharkov circle of “formalists” and OPOYAZ]. Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch. 2022. Vol. 10. Pp. 114–137.
• (With A. Ustinov).  Ad fontes: Borys Jakubs’kyj’s Nauka virshuvannia and Formation of the Ukrainian Science of Verse. Studia Metrica et Poetica. 9.1. 2022. Pp. 90–109.
• (With A. Dmitriev). The Postponed Revival, or Maps of Atlantis. Ab Imperio. 2021 (2022). № 4. Pp. 63–84.
• (A. Dmitriev). Форма и немота [Form and Muteness]. Ab Imperio. 2021 (2022). № 4. Pp. 63–84.
• (With B. Tsymbal). V. B. Shklovsky and I. Ya. Aizenshtok. Letters from different years (1920–1960). Matica Srpska Journal of Slavic Studies. 2022. Vol. 101. Pp. 11–25.
• (With A. Ustinov). The Ukrainian interval of Victor Shklovsky. Matica Srpska Journal of Slavic Studies. 2022. Vol. 101. Pp. 41–55.
• (With V. Otiakovsky). Materials to the bibliography of I. Ya. Aizenshtok. Matica Srpska Journal of Slavic Studies. 2022. Vol. 101. Pp. 77–93.
• Vasyl’ Boiko “Formalism and Marxism” (Transl. into Rus., comments). Neprikosnovennyi zapas. 2021. № 1. Pp. 73–92.
• The Avant-Garde and Its Roots: The Poetics of Mykola (Nik) Bazhan. Preface in: Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul”: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry. Ed. by O. Rosenblum, L. Friedman, A. Khyzhnya. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020. Pp. 14–37. 
• Valerian Polishchuk and Ukrainian “Avant-garde” group in the 1920s. Rhema.Рема. 2020. No. 4. Pp. 191–213.
• Boris Eikhenbaum in Ukraine. Discussions around the article “Theory of the Formal Method” in the journals “Chervonyi Shliakh” and “Krasnoe Slovo”. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2019. № 5 (159). S. 193–215.
• Ethical vs Ideological in the Literary Discussions in Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s. Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne. 2019. T. 49. Pp. 41–54.
• A Forgotten Detail in the Cultural Landscape: Ukrainian Version of Russian Formalism? National Identity, Avant-garde and Ideology in Literary Discussions in Soviet Ukraine (1920s–1930s). Respectus Philologicus, 2017. Vol. 37. Pp. 51–60.
• Mykola Bazhan’s texts of the 1920s–1930s: between avant-garde and socialist realism. SLAVIA. Časopis pro slovanskou filologii, 2015, č. 4. S. 361–371.
• On the Question of Ukrainian Reception of Russian Formalism: Dmytro Chyzhevsky versus Boris Eikhenbaum. Oriens Aliter. Časopis pro kulturu a dějiny střední a východní Evropy, 2015, № 2. Pp. 9–20.

Reviews

• Books, love and everyday dictatorship and occupation. Diary of a young girl from Kyiv, 1940-1945. Rev.: Victoria Kolosova. Kyiv daily. 1940–1945, Ed. O. Lazarenko, A. Portnov. Kharkiv, 2021. Krytyka, 2022. № 11–12. Pp. 28–32.
• The art industry of the first Russian emigration: Prague case. Rev.: Hauser J. Sans Retour. Výtvarníci ruské emigrace v meziválečné Praze. Praha: Památník národního písemnictví, 2020. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. 2022. № 2 (174). Pp. 315–320. (In Russ).
• Сhronicle of undeclared death. Rev.: Galin Tihanov. The Birth and the Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond. Stanford University Press, 2019. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. 2020. № 162. Pp. 357–366.
• Artistic Avangard: Ukrainian Version. Rev.: Myroslav Shkandrij. Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910–1930: Contested Memory, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. Krytyka, 2019. № 11–12. Pp. 20–28.
• Teorie řídicí vlny Davida Růžičky: recenze na básnickou sbírku “Případ nedopovězené slečny Y”. Partonyma, 2019. № 6. S. 119–126.
• Archaický a moderní svět v knize Davida Růžičky Horizont události. Rec.: David Růžička. Horizont události. Veřejný hudlant, 2014. Oriens Aliter. Časopis pro kulturu a dějiny střední a východní Evropy, 2015. №. 1. S. 95–97.
• Topografie skončené avantgardy. Rec.: Praha avantgardní: literární průvodce metropoli 1918–1938 / Kateřina Piorecká, Karel Piorecký. Praha, Academia, 2014. Oriens Aliter. Časopis pro kulturu a dějiny střední a východní Evropy, 2015. č. 1. S. 89–95.