Bohdan Tokarskyi

Postdoctoral Researcher

Project
The poetics of the making of the self in Ukrainian (Soviet) modernist literature

Contact
tokarskyi@uni-potsdam.de
+49 331 977 150101

Vita

Bohdan Tokarskyi is a literary scholar specialising in Ukrainian Studies, in particular Ukraine’s twentieth century and contemporary literature, with a research interest in the intersections between poetry, philosophy and psychology. He studied for a Master’s degree in European Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge (2015), where he subsequently completed his doctoral work as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and taught as Affiliated Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies. In his doctoral thesis, Tokarskyi explored the works of the Soviet Ukrainian dissident poet Vasyl Stus. Previously, he was a Prisma Ukraїna Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin and a URIS Fellow at the University of Basel.