Cover of the book Диалог Pro/За Ф. М. Достоевского (Spicilegium Slavicum, Vol. 1, IKRiBL, 2021)

Professor Emerita of Ukraine Olha Chervinska, a renowned theorist and specialist in Slavic studies and Russian classical literature (Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Nabokov), and author of several theoretical concepts related to the culture of emigration, invites you to explore her latest monograph, “A Dialogue on Dostoevsky” (2021).

The book presents an original academic dialogue with a young Ukrainian researcher of Dostoevsky’s work, Roman Dzyk.

During the lecture, you will hear about Dostoevsky’s relationship to contemporary history and the hidden motives that shaped novels such as “Crime and Punishment,” “The Adolescent,” “The Brothers Karamazov,” and “The Idiot,” among others.

Particular attention will be given to the significance of Dostoevsky’s distinctive genre, “A Writer’s Diary,” as well as to the most important aspects of his creative thought and philosophical ideas.

When: Tuesday, 12 May, 19:15-20:30 (BST)
Where: Bowett Room, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, Silver St, Cambridge CB3 9ET
Language: Russian
Format: In-person & Online via Zoom with English captions
In-person tickets tickets: £7 — Standard; £5 — CamRuSS Members; Free – Students
Zoom tickets: £5 – Standard, free – CamRuSS Members and Students
Video recording access is included with ticket purchase
Please book via AllEvents

Olha Chervinska

Olha Chervinska is a Doctor of Science and Professor at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine, where she has served as Head of the Department of Foreign Literature and Theory of Literature between 2001 and 2023.

Her research spans classical and receptive poetics, hermeneutics, genre studies, literary transitivity, Russian Silver Age literature, and contemporary foreign literature. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Issues of Literary Studies and has served on the editorial boards of five international philological journals in Ukraine, Poland, and the Czech Republic.

Professor Chervinska has authored more than 130 publications, including six monographs and contributions to 14 collective volumes. She has supervised twenty doctoral dissertations and participated in more than thirty international conferences, delivering keynote addresses in Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, and beyond. She holds associate status at the University of Athens, Department of Slavic Studies, and serves as scientific consultant to the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature in Tbilisi.

In 2019, she was awarded the honorary title of Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine in recognition of her outstanding contribution to philological scholarship and higher education.

Fyodor Dostoevsky in Paris, 1863