Taras Koznarsky

Associate Professor; Acting Associate Chair, Undergraduate (2023-24)
Alumni Hall, Room 415, 121 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1J4
416-946-5390

Campus

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

Ukrainian and Russian literatures in the first half of the nineteenth century; national and cultural identity; modernism and avant-garde. Current research project: “The text of Kyiv: constructions of the city in Ukrainian, Russian, Jewish, and Polish literary and cultural imaginations, 1800s-1930s.”

Associate Chair, Undergraduate

Associate Chair, Undergraduate E-mail: undergrad.slavic@utoronto.ca

Courses Taught

SLA102 - Ukrainian and Russian Civilizations and Art to the Eighteenth Century
SLA203 - Faking It: Forgery and Culture
SLA208 - Intermediate Ukrainian
SLA254 - Stone Books to Sky Books: Book as Institution, Commerce and Art
SLA308 - Advanced Ukrainian
SLA311 - Gogol
SLA331 - Experiments and Revolutions in Art and Literature of the Late Russian Empire-Early Soviet Union
SLA419 - Ukrainian Poetry, A Survey
SLA458 - Ukrainian for the 21st Century
SLA318 / SLA1039 - Kyiv-Kiev-Kijow
SLA1407 - Aspects of Literary Translation
SLA2000 - Reading and Research. Ukrainian Literature: Ninteenth Century Projects

Education

PhD, Harvard University, 2001
MA, University of Alberta, 1994
BA, Lviv University, 1991