George Grabowicz | |
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Юрій Григорій Юлійович Грабович | |
Born | 12 October 1943 |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Citizenship | American |
Occupation(s) | Academic, professor, literary critic |
Title | Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature at Harvard University |
Academic work | |
Era | 20th century |
Discipline | Ukrainian literature |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Main interests | Taras Shevchenko, Pavlo Tychyna |
Notable works | The Poet as Mythmaker: A Study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Ševčenko |
George Gregory Grabowicz (Ukrainian: Григорій Юлійович Грабович;* 12 October 1943, Kraków, General Government) is a Ukrainian and American literary critic and professor in the Department of Ukrainian Literature at both the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.[1] He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Krytyka magazine since 1997.[2] His research concerns the history of Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian literature and their interrelationships. His special research focus are Ukrainian writers Taras Shevchenko and Pavlo Tychyna. In 2012-2018, he was the chairman of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the USA. He was the president and one of the founders of the International Association of Ukrainian Studies.