Description: This unique collection presents creative nonfiction essays by employing cross-cultural dialog and the art of storytelling to open up Ukrainian perspectives on the challenges facing humanity worldwide.
Brief description: Dr Sasha Dovzhyk completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Since 2021, she is the Special Projects Curator at the Ukrainian Institute London. In 2022-2023, she has also been appointed an Associate Lecturer in Ukrainian Literature at the School of Slavonic and East-European Studies, UCL. Her previous books include Decadent Writings of Aubrey Beardsley (edited with Simon Wilson, MHRA, 2022) and Ukrainian Cassandra: New Translations of Works by Lesia Ukrainka (Live Canon, 2023). Her articles and chapters have been published in, among other outlets, Modernist Cultures, British Art Studies, and Oxford Handbook of Decadence. She has also written for CNN Opinion, The Guardian, New Lines Mag, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Ecologist.
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This unique collection presents creative nonfiction essays by emerging authors from Ukraine and the UK which employ cross-cultural dialog and the art of storytelling to open up Ukrainian perspectives on the challenges facing humanity worldwide.
"What are the real reasons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine? What will it mean for our world? In this collection, six writers from Ukraine and the UK have been brought together to explore these questions with the sort of deep probing and insight great story tellers bring. From the idyllic pre-war Luhansk of 2010s to the battle for Kyiv in March 2022, from western art shows in support of Ukraine to a Lviv apartment-turned-volunteers'-hub, Ukraine Lab collects unique stories and cross-cultural perspectives to help us understand the brutal invasion which has changed the world."