Olga Pressitch
Dr. Pressitch is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria.Her broader research interests include Eastern European cinema and second-language pedagogy.
She is also a Ukrainian language teacher and poet. Her poetry is published in two collections, “Impressions,” and “Don Juan and Other Ghosts.” She received her PhD from the Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with a focus on Ukrainian literature in postwar Canada.
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Commemoration and Memorialization EU Politics Literature Memory Politics |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | olgavp@uvic.ca |
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| Languages: | English and Ukranian |
| Publications: | “Language, Class, and Nation in a Soviet Ukrainian Blockbuster Comedy: Chasing Two Hares (1961),” Canadian Slavonic Papers 56, nos. 1–2 (March–June 2014): 119–34. “Civil War as Musical Comedy: The Representation of the Ukrainian Revolution in the Soviet Film Wedding in Malinovka,” Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies 5, no. 2 (2013): 83–91. “Konflikt pokolin′ iak strukturoformuiuchyi zasib ukraïns′ko-kanadskoï prozy II polovyny XX st.” [Generational Conflict as a Plot-Forming Device in the Ukrainian Canadian Prose of the Second Half of the 20th Century], Spheres of Culture 4 (2013): 117–24. Review of Beginner’s Ukrainian with Interactive Online Workbook: A Basic Ukrainian Course, by Yuri Shevchuk, Canadian Slavonic Papers 54, nos. 3–4 (September–December 2012): 555–56. |
