Galina Babak

Galina Babak

Research Fellow

Contact

via dathe@europa-uni.de

Vita

Galina Babak received her PhD in Slavic literatures at Charles University (Prague, Czechia) in 2020, with her doctoral project titled “Reception of Russian Formalism in Ukrainian Culture in the Inter-war Period (1921–1939).” Her research is mainly within the area of Intellectual History and History of Science with a focus on literary theory and comparative literatures. Her research interests include Ukrainian and Russian avant-garde literature and art, as well as political and cultural history of the 1920s–1930s. Galina is co-author (with Alexander Dmitriev) of the monograph “The Atlantis of Soviet National Modernism: Formal Method in Ukraine in the 1920s – the beginning of the 1930s” (Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2021).

Galina is a EUTIM Research Fellow at the European University Viadrina in April 2022 with a project entitled “Ukrainian Formalism: Biographical Reconstructions.