Maryna Romanets

Gender and Women's Studies | Literature | Culture | Contemporary literature, comparative literature, postcolonial and world literature, women’s literature, gender studies, sexuality studies, pornography studies, cultural studies, Gothic studies, contemporary critical theory

Professor Maryna Romanets specializes in contemporary, comparative, postcolonial, world, and women’s literatures, gender, sexuality and cultural studies, and contemporary critical theory. She has published articles and book chapters on the issues of representation and gender, sexual politics, cultural decolonization, postcolonialism and intertextual relations, politics and language, and translation theory and praxis. She is the author of Anamorphosic Texts and Reconfigured Visions: Improvised Traditions in Contemporary Ukrainian and Irish Literature (2007) and coeditor of Beauty, Violence, Representation (2014, 2017). Her latest title, Ukrainian Erotomaniac Fictions: First Postindependence Wave, appeared in 2019, and she is currently working on an edited volume that examines European neo-Gothic cultural productions after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Romanets, Dr. Maryna's curriculum vitae