Maxim Tarnawsky

Curriculum Vitae

• Ph.D. 1986 Harvard University. Comparative Literature
  Thesis Title: "Valerijan Pidmohyl'nyj, Guy de Maupassant, and the Magic of the Night"
• B.A. cum laude 1977 University of Pennsylvania
  

• 1987 – Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
• 1992 – Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
• 1992 – Member-Continuing, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto
• 2016 – Full Professor


• 1987 Summer School Instructor, Harvard University (Ukrainian Literature)
• 1986 Instructor, Comparative Literature Department, Harvard University
• 1986 Summer School Instructor, Harvard University (Intermediate Ukrainian)

• The Volianyk-Shvabinskyi Fund of the Ukrainian Free University Foundation award for the best book in Ukrainian Studies in 2005 to Mizh rozumom ta irratsionalnistiu: Proza Valer'iana Pidmohyl'noho.
• The American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize for 1995 (Best book in Ukrainain Studies in 1994) awarded for Between Reason and Irrationality: The Prose of Valerijan Pidmohyl'nyj.

• Editor. Ukrainian Literature. A Journal of Translations. 2004– .
• Director. Danylo Husar Struk Programme in Ukrainian Literature. 1999–
• Honorary President, Canadian Association of Slavists, 2014–2015.
• Vice President, Shevchenko Scientific Society, Canada, 2010–2014.
• President, Canadian Association of Slavists, 2004–2008.
• Vice President, Canadian Association of Slavists, 1998–2003.
• Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Association of Slavists, 1992–95; 1995–98.
• Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1992–2001.

• SSHRC Insight Grant, March15, 2017 – March 31, 2023, Title: Ivan Franko's Prose: The Ironies of Revolutionary Choices

• Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature (1999– )
  Ukrainian index page: https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/Main-Ukr.html
  Entry home page: https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/
• Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto (1990s– )
  https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/courses/
• Ukrainian Literature. A Journal of Translations
  http://www.ukrainianliterature.org/
• Ukrainian Literary Audio Resources
  http://lab.chass.utoronto.ca/rescentre/slavic/ukr/audio/
• Ukrainian language teaching electronic resources (1990s–)
  http://lab.chass.utoronto.ca/slavic/Ukrainian/
• Danylo Husar Struk Programme in Ukrainian Literature
  https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/Struk-mem/
• Ukrainian Literature in English. An Annotated Bibliography (1990s– )
  https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/English/ULE/
• Tarnawsky Family Archive
  tarnawsky.net

In Journals.

• "Ivan Nechui-Levytskyi and the Prohibitions on Publishing Ukrainian Literature," East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Volume IV, No. 2 (2017) (ewjus.com) ISSN 2292-7956. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21226/T2RW51, 131–46.
• "Serhii Iefremov: Epitome of the Ukrainian Revolution." Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. Vol. 4, (2017) (http://kmhj.ukma.edu.ua/) ISSN: 2313-4895. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18523/kmhj106677. 2017–4, 1–10
• "As Feminine as Granite: Nationalist Women Writers of the Interwar Diaspora," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 32-33 (2011-2014) 787–96.
• "Nechui's Aesthetic Code: Repetition, Pacing, and Non-Purposeful Narration." Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. Vol. 1 (2014). (http://kmhj.ukma.edu.ua/) ISSN: 2313-4895. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18523/kmhj25724. 2014-1, 219-240
• "Mykhailo Rudnytsky--Literary Critic." Journal of Ukrainian Studies 27: 1-2 (Summer-Winter, 2002) 161–72.
• "Zhinka v tvorakh Nechuia-Levyts'koho." (In Ukrainian, Women in the Works if Nechui-Levyts'kyi) Vydnokola 3. An online journal: http://www.vidnokola.kiev.ua/Magazine/N3/Num3.htm#Article1
• "Mykola Ievshan: Modernist Critic?" In Creating a Modern Ukrainian Cultural Space: Essays in Honor of Jaroslav Rozumnyj. Ed. Myroslav Shkandrij (=Journal of Ukrainian Studies 25: 1–2, 33–44.
• "Idealizm heroiv Ivana Franka" (In Ukrainian, The Idealism of Ivan Franko's Heroes). IV Mizhnarodnyi Kongres Ukraiinistiv, Odesa, 26-29 serpnia 1999. Literaturoznavstvo. Knyha 1. Kyiv: Mizhnarodna Asociiaciia Ukrainistiv, 2000. 483–93.
• "The Humanist Clay of Honchar's Works." Ukrainian Quarterly 56: 1 (Spring 2000) 9–18.
• "What is Told in the Green Library: History, Institutions, Language" Canadian Ethnic Studies 31: 3 (1999) 104–13.
• "Feminism, Modernism, and Ukrainian Women." Journal of Ukrainian Studies 19: 2 (Winter, 1994) 31–41.
• "European Influence in Ukrainian Modernist Prose." Canadian Slavonic Papers 34: 1-2 (March-June, 1992) 131–42.
• "Maisternist' psykholohichnoho analizu chy iliuziia psykholohizmu? (Dva pryklady: Panas Myrnyi i Nechui-Levyts'kyi)" [In Ukrainian, Masterful Psychological Analysis or the Illusion of Psychology? (Two examples: Panas Myrnyi and Nechui-Levyts'kyi)]. Slovo i chas, 1992: 8, 75–79.
• "Modernism in Ukrainian Prose." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 15: 3/4 (December 1991) 263–72.
• "Ostannij tvir Pidmohyl'noho" [In Ukrainian, Pidmohyl'nyi's Last Work]. Vsesvit, 1991: 12, 174–77.
• "Ivan Neuj-Levyc'kyj's Realism." Adelphotes: A Tribute to Omeljan Pritsak by his Students; Harvard Ukrainian Studies 14: 3/4 (December 1990) 608–22.
• "Nevtomnyi honets' v maibutnie. Ekzystentsiial'ne prochytannia Mista Pidmohyl'noho" (In Ukrainian, translation of essay published originally in English [see below], Tireless Messenger Into the Future: An Existential Reading of Pidmohyl'nyi's Misto). Slovo i chas 1991: 5, 56–63.
• "Nevtomnyi honets v maibutnie: An Existential Reading of Valeriian Pidmohylny's Misto." Journal of Ukrainian Graduate Studies 4: 2 (Fall 1979) 3–19.

Chapters in Books.

• "Introduction," Ostap Vyshnia, Hard Times, Trans. Yuri Tkacz. London: Glagosav, 2018, 9–12.
• "Iak Ivan Semenovych svaryvsia z Ivanom Iakovychem" (In Ukrainian, How Ivan Semenovych quarreled with Ivan Iakovych). Listvytsia Iakova [Jacob's ladder]: a festschrift honoring Leonid Ushkalov. Kharkiv: Maidan, 2016 [=2017], 398–408.
• "Traditional or Modern; Nativist or Foreign; Ukrainian or European: The Roots of Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Antimodernism." Ukraine and Europe: Cultural Encounters and Negotiations. Eds. Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, Marko Pavlyshyn, and Serhii Plokhy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017, 269-82.
• "Orthography, Copyright, and Legendary Anecdotes: The Story of Neuj's Linguistic Peculiarities." Studien zu Sprache, Literatur und Kultur bei den Slaven. Gedenkschrift für George Y. Shevelov aus Anlass seines 100. Geburstages und 10. Todestages. Eds. Andrii Danylenko, Serhii Vakulenko, Berlin: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2012, 295-308.
• "Nietzschean Themes in the Works of Valeriian Pidmohyl'nyi." Twentieth Century Ukrainian Literature: Essays in honor of Dmytro Shtohryn. Ed. Jaroslav Rozumnyj, Kyiv: Kyiv Mohyla Academy Publishing House, 2011, 311–23 .
• "Images of Bonding and Social Decay in Contemporary Ukrainian Prose: Reading Serhii Zhadan and Anatolii Dnistrovyi." In Contemporary Ukraine on the European Cultural Map, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2009, 264–74.
• "Feminizm, modernizm i ukrains'ke zhinotstvo" (In Ukrainian, translation of "Feminism, Modernism, and Ukrainian Women," 1994). Genderna perspektyva, Ed. Vera Aheieva, Kyiv: Fakt, 2004, 204–17.
• "The Duality of Ol'ha Kobylians'ka." Introduction to Ol'ha Kobylians'ka, On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs. Trans. Mary Skrypnyk. CIUS Press: Toronto, 2001, v–xi.
• "Ironichnyi Rai Shevchenka." Svity Tarasa Shcvchenka. Tom II. Ed. Laryssa M.L. Zales'ka Onyshkevych, Asia Humets'ka, Ivan Fizer. New York: Shevchenko Scientific Society, 2001, 91–102.
• "'Nevtomnyi honets' u maibutnie': Ekzystentsial'ne prochytannia Mista Pidmohyl'noho," in Use dlia shkoly: Valer'ian Pidmohyl'nyi. Kyiv: Vseuvyto, 2001, 69. Abridged reprint of a previously published essay.

Encyclopedia entries.

• "Ivan Nechui-Levytskyi" and "Valerian Pidmohylnyi" for the The Literary Encyclopedia (An internet encyclopedia project http://www.litencyc.com/).
• http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13565
• Prose. In Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol 4, 241–43.

• The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, April 2015.
reviews:
• Canadian Slavonic Papers 58: 3 (Sept. 2016) 308-10. By Svitlana Krys
• Revue des études slaves 97: 3-4 (2016) 527-29. By Iryna Dmytrychyn
• Slavic Review 75: 2 (June 2016) 491-492. By Oleh Ilnytzkyj
• Harvard Ukrainian Studies 35: 1-4 (2017-18) 561-63. By Marko Pavlyshyn
• East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 5: 1 (2018) 201-3. By George Mihaychuk
• University of Toronto Quarterly 86: 3, (Summer 2017) 296-97. By Myroslav Shkandrij


• Between Reason and Irrationality: The Prose of Valerijan Pidmohyl'nyj. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, January 1995.

reviews:
• Slavic and East European Journal 40:2 (Summer 1996) pp. 393–4, John Fizer.
• Canadian Slavonic Papers 38:3–4 (Sept.-Dec. 1996) pp, 501–3, Marko Pavlyshyn.
• Jounral of Ukrainian Studies 21:1–2 (Summer-Winter 1996) pp. 327–8, George S. N. Luckyj.

• Nechuvanyi Nechui: Realizm v ukrainskii literaturi, [Translation of my: The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose] Kyiv: Laurus, 2016.
• "Mizh rozumom ta irratsional'nistiu: Proza Valer"iana Pidmohyl'noho, [Translation of my Between Reason and Irrationality] Trans. Vasyl' Trylis, Kyiv: Pulsary, 2004.

• Valerian Pidmohylny. The City A novel. Part 2. Translated by Maxim Tarnawsky. Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations. Vol 5 (2018), 105-233. www.UkrainianLiterature.org = https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/Ukr_Lit/Vol05/05-Tarnawsky-Pidmohylny-City-Part-2.pdf
• Valerian Pidmohylny. The City A novel. Part 1. Translated by Maxim Tarnawsky. Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations. Vol 4 (2014), 11-103. www.UkrainianLiterature.org = https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/Ukr_Lit/Vol04/03-Pidmohylny-City-1.pdf
• Valeriian Pidmohylny, "Vanja," Translated by Maxim Tarnawsky. Journal of Ukrainian Studies 10: 2 (Winter 1985) 49-67.
• Ivan Kernytsky. Weekdays and Sunday Translated by Maxim Tarnawsky. (Budni i nedilja) Philadelphia: Mosty, 1999.

• Monograph on the prose of Ivan Franko
• "Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi: Expansive, Conservative, Peculiar" and other entries for a project to compile a collectively authored History of Ukrainian Literature. Ed. George Grabowicz.

• Participant in a roundtable on "Publishing Ukrainian Literature and Scholarship in Translation" at the AATSEEL Conference, Washington DC, February 3, 2018.
• "Mif bosykh pioneriv (The Myth of the Barefoot Pioneers)." In Ukrainian, Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada, Annual Conference, Toronto, December 2, 2017. Video: https://youtu.be/uc1joe3lHls?t=1610
• "Serhii Iefremov: Epitome of the Ukrainian Revolution." CAS Conference, oronto, May 29, 2017.
• "Serhii Iefremov: Epitome of the Ukrainian Revolution." Paper and presentation to the Ukrainian Research Group of the Petro Jacyk Program, CERES, University of Toronto. April 18, 2017.
• "Serhii Iefremov: Politician, Publisher, Publicist, and Scholar." A paper presented at the conference Ukrainian Statehood 1917-1921: Institutions and Individuals, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, February 24 and 25, 2017." Video available on-line: https://youtu.be/FDBT0Z_GTMU?t=1705
• "Iak Ivan Semenovych svaryvsia z Ivanom Iakovychem" (In Ukrainian, How Ivan Semenovych quarreled with Ivan Iakovych). MAG/ASEEES Congress, Lviv, June 26-28, 2016.
• "Criminal Deviance in Ivan Franko's Late Prose." CAS Conference, Calgary AB, June 1, 2016.
• "How Ivan Semenovych Quarreled with Ivan Iakovych." ASEEES Conference in Philadelphia. November 21, 2015.
• "Nechui's Aesthetic Code: Repetition, Pacing, and Non-Purposeful Narration." ASEEES Conference, Boston MA. November 21-24, 2013.
• "Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi and the Prohibitions on Publishing Ukrainian Literature." Presentation at a symposium, The Language That "Did Not, Does Not, and Cannot Exist": 150 Years Since the Valuev Decree, University of Toronto. November 1, 2013.
• "Ukrainian Realism." Presentation at a symposium in preparation for writing a collective History of Ukrainian Literature. Vienna, Austria. January 17-19, 2013.
• "Traditional or Modern; Nativist or Foreign; Ukrainian or European: The roots of Nechui's Anti Modernism." Conference "Ukraine and Europe." Gargnano, Italy. May 25-26, 2011.
• "Images of a Jewish Conspiracy and the Depiction of the Evils of Capitalism." Paper presented at a symposium, "Imagining 'the Other' in Jewish and Ukrainian Literatures," University of Toronto, Munk Centre for International Studies. January 10, 2010.
• "Reading Nechui with a Grudge." AAASS Conference, Boston, November 12-15, 2009.
• "Images of Bonding and Social Decay in Contemporary Ukrainian Prose." Paper delivered at a symposium to launch the publication of Contemporary Ukraine on the European Cultural Map. University of Toronto, Munk Centre. September 24, 2009.
• Lecture on Ivan Kotliarevsky for an audience of youth counselors in training. SUM Ukrainian Youth Association campground, Acton, ON. July 21, 2009.
• "Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Historical Imagination," AAASS Conference, New Orleans. November 15-18, 2007.
• "Rediscovering the Classics of Ukrainian Realist Literature: Who was Ivan Nechui-Levytskyi?" Seminar presentation, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. October 29, 2007.
• "As Feminine as Granite: Nationalist Women Writers of the Interwar Diaspora," ASN Convention, New York. April 13, 2007.
• "Borrowed Theory, Native Practice: Literary Criticism in Ukraine." VII World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. July 25th-30th, 2005.
• "Decadent Ukrainian Early Modernist Prose." AAASS Conference, Boston. December 4-7, 2004.
• "Andrii Lahovs'kyi's Sentimental Education." Canadian Association of Slavists Conference, Winnipeg. May 31, 2004.
• "Nechui and Iefremov." Canadian Association of Slavists Conference, Halifax. May 29-31, 2003.
• "Nechui's Prescriptions for Ukrainian Literature." Canadian Association of Slavists Conference, Toronto, May 26-28, 2002.
• "Zhinka v tvorakh Nechuia-Levyts'koho." International Association for Ukrainian Studies Conference, Chernivtsi, Ukraine. August 26-29, 2002.
• "Nechui-Levytskyi's Imagined Ukraine." AAASS Conference, Washington DC. November 17, 2001.
• "The Historical Context of Kvitka-Osnov'ianenko's Humor." AAASS Conference, Denver. November 9-12, 2000.
• "The Duality of Ol'ha Kobylians'ka." Canadian Association of Slavists Conference, Edmonton. May 27-29, 2000.
• "Fictional Ukraine." Paper presented at the Conference on Ukrainian Politics in the 20th Century, Yale University. April 7-9, 2000.
• "Mykhailo Rudnyts'kyi--Critic." AAASS Conference, St. Louis. November 18-21, 1999.
• "What is Told in the Green Library." Conference entitled "Ukrainians in Canada and the United States: Cross Border Interaction and Comparative Experiences." Toronto. October 29-31, 1998.
• "Ivan Franko's Idealist Hero." AAASS Conference, Boca Raton, Florida. September 24-27, 1998.
• "Franko's Realism." AAASS Conference, Seattle. November 20-23, 1997.
• "The Humanist Clay of Honchar's Works." AAASS Conference, Boston. November 14-17, 1996.
• "Povtorennia v tvorakh Nechuia-Levyts'koho" (In Ukrainian, Repetition in the Works of Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi). Third International Congress of Ukrainian Studies, Kharkiv, Ukraine, August 26-29, 1996.
• "Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi and the Irrational." AAASS Conference, Washington, D.C. October 23-6, 1995.
• "Nationalism, Romanticism, and Prejudice: Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Hostility to Russia." Conference entitled People, Nations, Identities: The Russian-Ukrainian Encounter, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York. November 13-15, 1994.
• "Feminism, Modernism, and Ukrainian Women." AAASS Conference, Honolulu. November 18-22, 1993.
• "Mykola Ievshan--The Modernist Critic." AAASS Conference, Phoenix. November 19-22, 1992.
• "European Influence in Ukrainian Modernist Prose." AAASS Conference, Miami, FL, November 22-25, 1991.
• "Rannia proza Valeriiana Pidmohyl'noho." Lecture Series of the Ukrainian National Home, Toronto. November 28, 1990.
• "Modernism in Ukrainian Prose." AAASS Conference, Washington, D.C. October 18-21, 1990.
• "Rannia proza Valeriiana Pidmohyl'noho." Founding Congress of the Mizhnarodna Asociiaciia Ukrainistiv [International Association of Ukrainian Studies], Kyiv, Ukraine. August 27-September 3, 1990.
• "Pidmohyl'nyi's Last Novel." International Congress of Slavic and East European Studies, Harrogate, England. July 21-26, 1990.
• "Re-evaluating Lesia Ukrainka." Canadian Association of Slavists Conference, Victoria. May 30-June 1, 1990.
• Commentator in a panel on Ukrainian Literature in the 1930s. Conference "Ukraine Under Stalin." Toronto. March 2-4, 1990.
• "Psychologism of Ukrainian Fiction of the 2nd half of the 19th century." Soviet-American Colloquium on Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University. December 6-7, 1989.
• Discussant in a panel on Taras Shevchenko. AAASS Conference, Chicago. Nov. 2-5, 1989.
• "Pidmohyl'nyi's Last Novel." Canadian Association of Slavists Conference, Quebec City. June 2-4, 1989.
• "Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realism." AAASS Conference, Honolulu. November 18-21, 1988.
• "Reflections of Nietzsche in Ukrainian Literature of the 1920s." Conference "Nietzsche's Influence in Soviet Culture," Fordham University, New York. June 1-3, 1988.
• "The Impact of Nietzsche in Ukrainian Literature of the 1920s." AAASS Conference, Boston. November 5-8, 1987.
• "Nietzschean Themes in the Works of Valeriian Pidmohyl'nyi." Conference "Ukraine in the 1920s - Early 1930s," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. June 22-26, 1987.
• "Valeriian Pidmohyl'nyi's Realist Stand." New England Slavic Association Conference, Boston. March 14-15, 1986.
• "Pidmohyl'nyi's Misto and Maupassant's Bel-Ami." AATSEEL Conference, Chicago. December 28-30, 1982.
• "Five Approaches to Valeriian Pidmohyl'nyi's Misto," Conference "Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth Century," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. June 24-28, 1982.
• "Ironichnyi rai Shevchenka," (In Ukrainian, Shevchenko's Ironic 'Rai'/Paradise). NTSh Shevchenko Conference, New York. May 2, 1981.

• Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, July 1995-1999.
• Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Association of Slavists, 1992-95; 1995-1998.
• Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1992-2001.

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