Yuliya V. Ladygina

Yuliya V. Ladygina is Helena Rubinstein University Endowed Fellow in the Humanities and assistant professor of Russian and Global and International Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research in Eastern European literatures and cultures, focuses on questions of cultural memory and cultural exchange. She is the author of Bridging East and West: Ol’ha Kobylians’ka, Ukraine’s Pioneering Modernist (University of Toronto Press, 2019), and she is currently working on her second book project, The Reel Story of the Euromaidan and the Russian-Ukrainian War, which examines the post-2014 cycle of Ukrainian war films and their perspective on the hybrid nature of modern war and its mediatization. Her articles on related subjects appeared in Harvard Ukrainian Studies, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, East European Jewish Affairs, and Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture.