Dr. Alessandro Achilli

Fellow

Active for the Research Team in Trier:

01/03/2021 - 30/09/2021

Country:

Italy

Email:

alessandro.achilli@monash.edu

Phone:

+49 651 201 3162

Room:

DM 10

Research Focus:

Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Belarusian contemporary poetry
Ukrainian poetry of the 20th century.
comparative literature.

Publications:

Latest publications:

Monographs

Alessandro Achilli, Serhy Yekelchyk, Dmytro Yesypenko (ed.), Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn, Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2020 (peer reviewed).

Articles

Individual, yet Collective Voices: Polyphonic Poetic Memories in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature, “Canadian Slavonic Papers” 62/1 (2020), pp. 4-26.

Towards a New Postcolonial Ukrainian Literature: Ievheniia Kononenko’s “A Russian Story, in A. Achilli, S. Yekelchyk, D. Yesypenko (ed.), Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020, pp. 604-617.

Writers, the Nation, and War: Literature Between Civic Engagement, Trauma, and Aesthetic Freedom in Contemporary Ukraine, “Modern Language Review” 115/4 (2020), pp. 872-890.

A complete liste of publications can be found here.

Career:

Current position:

Research Associate (FOR2603)

Member of the governing body of the Italian Ukrainist Association

Vice President of the Australian Ukrainist Association

Academic Career

Studies of Slavic and German language and literature in Milan and Berlin

PhD on the Ukrainian poet Vasyl’ Stus (Milan, 2015).

2015 : Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

2017 – 2020 : Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne