George Grabowicz
George Grabowicz | |
|---|---|
| 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: Юрій Григорій Грабович;* 12 October 1943, Kraków, General Government), known in Ukraine as Hryhorii Yuliiovych Hrabovych (Ukrainian: Грабович, Григорій Юлійович),[1] 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.[2] He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Krytyka magazine since 1997.[3] 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.
Awards
- Honorary doctor of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1997)
- Order "For Intellectual Courage" (2004)
- Antonovych prize (2008)
- Shevchenko National Prize (2022)[4]
Links
- G. Grabowicz website at Harvard University
- G. Grabowicz in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- A Biographical Sketch about G.Grabowicz
References
- ^ "Грабович, якого не знаємо". Україна модерна. 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2025-06-01.
- ^ "Grabowicz George G." PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
- ^ "Grabowicz George G." PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
- ^ Лауреати Національної премії [National Award Winners]. Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 13 June 2025.