Iuliana Matasova
Dr Iuliana Matasova is a displaced Ukrainian scholar of popular culture and comparative literature whose research explores Ukrainian 1990s through popular music. Holding her PhD in Comparative Literature from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and MA in Comparative Cultural Studies from Jean Moulin Lyon 3, she has served as Associate Professor of Literature at Taras Shevchenko. Currently Fellow at New Europe College Bucharest and partner of Oxford Ukraine Hub, Matasova was RHS and BASEES Scholar-at-Risk at the University of Roehampton, Carnegie Research Fellow at Duke University, and Advanced Academia Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia. She has given talks at the Universities of Minnesota, Oxford, Chicago, and Basel. Matasova's scholarship of Ukrainian and American literatures and popular cultures appeared in Palgrave and Peter Lang essay collections and leading Ukrainian academic journals. She has written for Marie Claire Ukraine, translated at Kyiv Molodist International Film Festival, and discussed her research on Ukrainian television.