Ukraine at war: contemporary prose with Mariia Shuvalova | Literatura 2025
Date and time:
Tuesday 15 July, 2025
18:30 - 20:00
Location:
ONLINE
Ukraine at war: contemporary prose
NB: registration will close 10 minutes before the seminar, 18:20 BST on 15 July.
The sixth seminar within the Literatura course will be led by Mariia Shuvalova, a literary critic and lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
‘For most of the world, Russia’s war against Ukraine started when the entire country woke up from explosions and air raid sirens on 24 February 2022. By that point, Ukrainians had been living this barbaric invasion for eight years and producing literature which reflected their complex experiences, both life-changing on an individual scale, and signalling a point of no return for their country and the world at large.’
We will be reading chapters from Tamara Duda’s novel Daughter to tune in to the context of the past ten-year-long stage of Russia’s war against Ukraine and paying special attention to how Ukrainian women have been affected by this war, and how this war has affected them.
Lecturer
Mariia Shuvalova
Mariia Shuvalova is based in Kyiv and is an Acquisitions Editor of the Ukrainian Language Open Access Series at Academic Studies Press (Boston). You can learn more about her past projects here.
