Refereed Publications (selected: English-language only)
Under contract (contributing editor):
Living the Independence Dream: Ukraine and Ukrainians in Contemporary Socio-Political Context. Edited by Lada Kolomiyets. Vernon Press. 2024. Series in Social Equality and Justice. ISBN: 978-1-64889-861-7 https://vernonpress.com/book/1941
Chapters Contributed to Edited Volumes:
"A People's Cyber War: Ukraine's Digital Folklore and Popular Mobilization" (Chapter 7). In Living the Independence Dream: Ukraine and Ukrainians in Contemporary Socio-Political Context. Ed. by Lada Kolomiyets (Vernon Press, 2024), 149-193.
"Cultural Translation in Michael Naydan's Novel Seven Signs of the Lion." In Normativity and Resilience in Translation and Culture, edited by Emma Oki, Agnieszka Pantuchowicz, and Anna Warso. Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2024.
"Translating Russian Literature in Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine." In Russian Literary Translation in the Global Context, edited by Muireann Maguire and Catherine McAteer. Open Book Publishers, 2024, pp. 295–320 (Co-author Oleksandr Kalnychenko). DOI https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0340.17
"The First Comprehensive Treatments of Translation in Eastern Europe (1950s-60s)." Chapter 7. In The Routledge Handbook of the History of Translation Studies, edited by Anna Lange, Christopher Rundle, and Daniele Monticelli. 1st Edition. Routledge. March 20, 2024, pp. 127-149 (Co-author Oleksandr Kalnychenko). ISBN 9781138388055.
"Between censorship and nation building: the first Ukrainian lecture courses on translation studies from a historical perspective" in Translation Studies in Ukraine as an Integral Part of the European Context, edited by Martin Djovčoš, Ivana Hostová, Mária Kusá, Emília Perez (Bratislava, Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2023), 63-89.
"Translation in Ukraine during the Stalinist Period: Literary Translation Policies and Practices", in Translation under Communism. Rundle, Christopher, Anna Lange, and Daniele Monticelli (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, рp. 141-172 (Co-authored with Oleksandr Kalnychenko).
"Translation as an Instrument of Russification in Soviet Ukraine", in Translation and Power. Harmon, Lucyna and Dorota Osuchowska (eds.). Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften, 2020, pp. 29-43.
"Shakespeare's Engagement in Ukrainian Cultural Renaissance of the 1920s-1930s", in "A Sea-Change into Something Rich and Strange": Shakespeare Studies in Contemporary Ukraine. Torkut, Nataliya M. and Yurii I. Cherniak (eds.). Liha-Pres (Lviv-Toruń), 2020, pp. 43-60.
"Translation as an Asymmetric Response to Soviet Colonialism in the Works of Ukrainian Dissident Poet-Translator Hryhoriy Kochur", in Protest and Dissent. Conflicting Spaces in Translation and Culture. Pantuchowicz, Agnieszka and Anna Warso (eds.). Peter Lang GmbH, 2020, pp. 89-103.
"The labor camp poetry of Hryhoriy Kochur: Challenges for a Translator", in National Identity in Literary Translation. Barciński, Łukasz (ed.). Peter Lang GmbH, 2019, pp. 91-101.
"The Untranslatable Ethnic: Always an Outsider? (A Brief Review of Ukrainian-to-English Literary Translation Practices)", in Culture(s) and Authenticity: The Politics of Translation and the Poetics of Imitation. Pantuchowicz, Agnieszka and Anna Warso (eds.). Peter Lang GmbH, 2018, pp. 41-57.
"Identifying Shifts in the Allusiveness of a Source Text through Post-Soviet Translation as Deconstruction of the Target-Language Audience's Soviet Identity", in Identity and Translation Trouble, ed. by Ivana Hostová, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK): Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, рp. 35-59.
Articles in academic journals (English-language only):
"Deconstruction of Russia's Newspeak in Ukrainian Humorous Translation and Digital Folklore." Ideology and Politics Journal, special issue "Critical Perspectives on Language and Power in Ukraine and Kazakhstan." Editors of this issue: Natalia Kudriavtseva & Debra A. Friedman. Issue 2 (24), 2023, p. 128-166. DOI: 10.36169/2227-6068.2023.02.00006
"The politics of literal translation in Soviet Ukraine: The case of Gogol's 'The tale of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich'". Translation and Interpreting Studies. The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association. Online First publication. Available online: 21 October 2022. http://doi.org/10.1075/tis.21020.kol
"Manipulative Mistranslations in Official Documents and Media Discourses on Contemporary Ukraine". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. The Journal of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Volume 37 (Number 3–4), 2020. Pages 367-405.
"A Psycholinguistic Analysis of the First Ukrainian Syllabi on General and Special Methodology of Translation by Mykhailo Kalynovych and Mykola Zerov". East European Journal of Psycholinguistics. 2020, Volume 7, Number 2, pp. 135-154. https://doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2020.7.2.kol
"The Psycholinguistic Factors of Indirect Translation in Ukrainian Literary and Religious Contexts". East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2019, 6(2), pp. 32–49. https:/doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3637712
"(Re)translating Horace into Ukrainian Modernity: From Mykola Zerov to Andrii Sodomora". East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Volume VI, No. 2 (2019), pp. 73-112. https://ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/article/view/531/232
"Women-translators of Belles-lettres in Soviet Ukraine of the 1920s-1930s: Educational, Cultural and Sociopolitical Profiles / Les Traductrices Litteraires en Ukraine Sovietique des Annees 1920-1930: Profils Educatif, Culturel et Sociopolitique". Style and Translation: Collected Works, Kyiv: TSNU, 2019, Issue 1(5), pp. 41-74.
"Taras Shevchenko Translated and Retranslated by Vera Rich: A Lifelong Search for Poetic Perfection". Respectus Philologicus, Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty and The Jan Kochanovski University in Kielce, Faculty of Humanities, 2018, Nr. 34 (39), pp. 147-161. https://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/12099
"An ethno-ecological approach to multiple English translations of the poem Доля [Fate/Destiny] by Taras Shevchenko". Studia Slawistyczne: Etnolingwistyka i Komunikacja Międzykulturowa, Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II), 2017, Issue 4, р. 525-548.
"Vera Rich as a Translator of Taras Shevchenko: Working Towards Greater Semantic and Rhythmic Accurateness". Studia Filologiczne Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego, 2016, Vol. 29, pp. 43-62.
"From illusory precision to fateful misrepresentation of meaning in the translation of political documents". Scientific Messenger of the UNESCO Department of Kyiv National Linguistic University. Philology, Pedagogy, Psychology: Collection of papers, Kyiv: KNLU Publishing Centre, 2017, Issue 34, pp. 57-67.
"Ukrainian Romanticism and the Modern Ukrainian Psyche". The Ukrainian Quarterly: A Journal of Ukrainian and International Affairs. Vol. LXXII, Numbers 1-4 (Spring-Winter 2016), pp. 8-36.
"The Essentialized Kobzar by Taras Shevchenko in Michael Naydan's English Projection", 2014. Style and Translation: Collected Works, Kyiv: TSNU, 2015, Issue 1(2), pp. 155-187.
"Three Profiles of the Translator in the Complete Poetry of Taras Shevchenko Translated from the Ukrainian by Peter Fedynsky". The Ukrainian Quarterly: A Journal of Ukrainian and International Affairs. Vol. LXX, Number 1-4 (Spring-Winter 2014), pp. 18-39.
"Translation Engagement in National Renaissance Policies: A Survey of English-to-Ukrainian Literary Translations of American and Canadian Authors in the 1920s-30s". Style and Translation: Collected Works, Kyiv: TSNU, 2014, Issue 1(1), pp. 52-67.
Peer-reviewed chapters accepted for publication by Routledge:
"Translation and Censorship in Russian and Austrian Ukraines from 1800 to 1917." In Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship, edited by Brian James Baer and Denise Merkle. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group (forthcoming in 2024). Co-author Oleksandr Kalnychenko.
"Translation and Censorship in Soviet and Independent Ukraine." In Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship, edited by Brian James Baer and Denise Merkle. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group (forthcoming in 2024). Co-author Oleksandr Kalnychenko.
Peer-reviewed chapter accepted for publication by Ibidem Verlag:
"Russia's Newspeak Deconstructed," in Language and Power in Ukraine and Kazakhstan to appear in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society series published by Ibidem Verlag and Columbia University Press (forthcoming in 2024).
Forthcoming Peer-reviewed papers (English-language only):
"Precarious Planning of Translations into Ukrainian at the Turn of the 1930s in View of the Soviet Canon Formation of Translated Literature." East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (2024, forthcoming).
TRANSLATIONS into English (selection)
Halyna Kruk, "to and back." Translated from Ukrainian by Lada Kolomiyets. The Common Online. July 3, 2024. Translation: to and back | The Common (thecommononline.org)
The war in Ukraine through the lens of women-poets. Poetry by Halyna Kruk, Inna Honchar, and Svitlana Didukh-Romanenko. Translated from Ukrainian by Lada Kolomiyets. Versopolis. Poetry Expo 24. February 25, 2024:
Kruk_Honchar_Didukh-Romanenko_English_Spring_Summer_2022 - Lada Kolomiyets.docx - Google Диск
Three wartime poems by Natalka Marynchak. Translated from Ukrainian by Lada Kolomiyets. Apofenie. November 29, 2023. https://www.apofenie.com/poetry/three-wartime-poems-natalka-marinchak
Everyone will have their own story. Poetry by Natalka Marynchak. Translated by Lada Kolomiyets. Versopolis. January 11, 2024. everyone will have their own story | Versopolis Review
It turns out that you were in the basement of the Mariupol Theater, My God! A bilingual Georgian-Ukrainian wartime poetry collection, with English translations of individual poems. Tbilisi: Sulakauri Publishing House, 2023. (Translations into English by Lada Kolomiyets of the poems by Halyna Kruk and Natalka Marynchak, pp. 53-55, 58, 90-91). www.sulakauri.ge
Subterranean Fire: THE SELECTED POETRY OF NATALKA BILOTSERKIVETS. Translators: James Brasfield with Lada Kolomiyets, Olena Jennings, Michael M. Naydan, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Andrew Sorokowski, Myroslava Stefaniuk, and Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps. Glagoslav Publications, 2020. https://glagoslav.com/shop/subterranean-fire-the-selected-poetry-of-nata...
The Inta Notebook: The Poetry of 1945-1953 by Hryhoriy Kochur : Bilingual edition. Edited, with Introduction, Commentaries and Afterword by Lada Kolomiyets. Translated by Lada Kolomiyets, Svitlana Budzhak-Jones, and James Brasfield. Kyiv: Pinzel, 2022, 186 р.
Research Grants (selection):
Wenner-Gren Foundations Grant (project title: Censorship and Canon Formation in Ukrainian Translation of the 20th-early21st century), contract number GFU2022-0029, Stockholm, Sweden, June 20, 2022 – September 20, 2022
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) Conference Travel/Research Grant from the CIUS Exchanges with Ukraine Endowment Fund to prepare for and attend the Tenth World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec, August 3-8, 2021 (online)
Fulbright Scholar Award, Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program, the Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, September 1, 2017 – August 8, 2018.
Recent activities:
From September 1, 2023, Member the Ukraine Working Group (together with Victoria Somoff and Elizabeth S. Curtis), sponsored by the Leslie Center at Dartmouth College
February-March 2024, Co-organized a series of events Poetic Witnessing of War: Award-winning poets read selected excerpts from their poetry and reflect upon their work as witnesses of war (Leslie Humanities). Organizers: Roberta Stewart (Classics), Ainsley Morse, with Lada Kolomiyets (EEERS).
As part of this series of events, I moderated the virtual meeting with one of the best Ukrainian poets, Halyna Kruk, on March 1, 2024, and recited Halyna's poetry in my own translations. See the link below:
https://app.frame.io/presentations/ed192d1a-3d00-405b-b83f-f98e9f1bdca2
Organized screening of a documentary film by Kornii Hrytsiuk "Eurodonbas" and in person Q&A with its producer Anna Palenchuk, APRIL 16, 2024. SPONSORED BY EAST EUROPEAN, EURASIAN AND RUSSIAN STUDIES.
Organized publication of students' poetry translations from around the globe in Comparative Literature Axium Journal. https://axiumjournal.com/
Participated as a co-organizer, speaker, poetry and essay reader in the events at Dartmouth College, Saint Anselm College and other public institutions in New Hampshire in promoting Ukrainian literature and culture, in particular:
POETRY IN TRANSLATION: BETRAYAL OR A CREATIVE AND INTERPRETIVE ACT OF TRUST? I'M FINE engagement event February 3, 2024. Hanover High School.
A Night of Ukrainian Literary Translation featuring Hanna Leliv, Lada Kolomiyets and Veronika Yadukna, Left Bank Books Bookstore, April 26, 2023, Hanover, Free and open to the public, https://www.leftbankbookshanover.com/
Exhibit opening for "Our Fire Is Stronger Than Your Bombs," Dartmouth College, Baker-Berry Library, February 24, 2023
Translation Celebration, Comparative Literature Program, Dartmouth College, February 15, 2023
An Evening with Dartmouth's Visiting Ukrainian Writers & Translators, Norwich Bookstore, February 8, 2023
https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/hanna-leliv-lada-kolomiyets-daryna-gla...
https://www.norwichbookstore.com/event/evening-four-acclaimed-ukrainian-...
Watch "Norwich Bookstore Author Talk || An Evening w/ Dartmouth's Visiting Ukrainian Writers & Translators" on YouTube https://youtu.be/qcSbaaBDsDU
Voices of Ukraine: Tetiana Savchynska & Lada Kolomiyets (a virtual series of eight discussions with poets, journalists, editors, and translators from Ukraine), Dartmouth College, Leslie Center for the Humanities, October 13, 2022
Gave an interview to The Valley News (article by Alex Hanson) about the play I'm Fine by Nina Zakhozhenko and its way to Hanover, February 2, 2024, https://www.vnews.com/Hanover-High-School-produces-play-set-during-Ukrai...
Published reflections in Dartmouth News about contemporary Ukraine and a devastating impact of Russian war on Ukraine, in particular, in Vox Populi: "Ukrainian Character, Russian Folly," Dartmouth News. June 29, 2023. https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/06/vox-populi-ukrainian-character-r...
Published three reflections in Dartmouth News about contemporary Ukraine and a devastating impact of Russian war on Ukraine, in particular, as part of the publication Voices on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, One Year On: Faculty and students share their perspectives on the war and its devastating toll, article in Dartmouth News, February 24, 2023.
https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/02/voices-russian-invasion-ukraine-...
Co-organized:
An exhibit of Ukrainian graphic artists' response to war "OUR FIRE IS STRONGER THAN YOUR BOMBS," Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire Institute of Politics, May 1, 2023.
https://www.anselm.edu/about/anselmian-hub/news/power-art-during-war-ukr...