Slavic Resources Coordinator, and Head, Petro Jacyk Resource Centre, University of Toronto Libraries, University of Toronto
I serve as Slavic Resources Coordinator and Head of the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre, for the University of Toronto Libraries. I also co-direct the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, and coordinate the Ukraine Research Group, at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. My research interests include bibliography, the history of the book and library collections, Austrian Galicia, and 19th-century French culture. Recent publications include the volume The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941: A Sourcebook (Amsterdam UP, 2016), co-edited with Alexander Motyl, and Maximum Imaginativeness: An Exhibition on Modern Czech Book Design, 1900–1950: Exhibition and Catalogue (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2015), plus articles on Sacher-Masoch’s Galician tales in French translation, for a volume I coedited of the journal 20th-century Ukraine: Culture, Ideology, Politics (2015); another on Léo Delibes’ Galician opera ‘Kassya,’ Austrian History Yearbook (2015); and one on a Carpathian band of brigands for a festschrift in honor of Paul Robert Magocsi (2015).
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