Maxim Tarnawsky

Brief Curriculum Vitae

A. PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: September 3, 1955. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Married to Uliana Pasicznyk. Children: Ivan and Stefan.

Home Address: University Address
312 Willard Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, M6S 3R2
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto
121 St Joseph Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1J4 (M5S 3C2 for couriers)

416-769-0670
416-926-1300 x3338
FAX 416-926-2076
E-mail: tarn@chass.utoronto.ca

2. Degrees

Home Address:	University Address
312 Willard Avenue Toronto, Ontario, M6S 3R2	Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Toronto 121 St Joseph Street Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1J4 (M5S 3C2 for couriers)
416-769-0670	416-926-1300 x3338 FAX 416-926-2076 E-mail: tarn@chass.utoronto.ca

Ph.D. 1986 Harvard University. Comparative Literature
Thesis Title: "Valerijan Pidmohyl'nyj, Guy de Maupassant, and the Magic of the Night"
B.A. cum laude 1977 University of Pennsylvania

3. Employment

1992- Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
1992- Member-Continuing, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto
1987-92 Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
1987 Summer School Instructor, Harvard University (Ukrainian Literature)
1986 Instructor, Comparative Literature Department, Harvard University
1986 Summer School Instructor, Harvard University (Intermediate Ukrainian)

4. Honours
The American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize for 1995 (Best book in Ukrainian Studies in 1994) awarded for Between Reason and Irrationality: The Prose of Valerijan Pidmohyl'nyj.

C. PUBLICATIONS
7. a. Refereed Articles

"The Duality of Ol'ha Kobylians'ka." Introduction to Ol'ha Kobylians'ka, On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs. Trans. Mary Skrypnyk. CIUS Press: Toronto, 2001.
"Idealizm herojiv Ivana Franka" (The Idealism of Ivan Franko's Heroes, in Ukrainian). IV Mizhnarodnyj Kongres Ukrajinistiv, Odesa, 26–29 serpnja 1999. Literaturoznavstvo. Knyha 1. Kyiv: Mizhnarodna Asocijacija Ukrajinistiv, 2000. Pp. 483–93.
"The Humanist Clay of Honchar's Works." Ukrainian Quarterly. LVI, No. 1 (Spring 2000). Pp. 9–18.
"What is Told in the Green Library. History, Institutions, Language" Canadian Ethnic Studies. XXXI, No. 3, 1999. Pp. 104–13.
"Feminism, Modernism, and Ukrainian Women." Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 19, No. 2 (Winter, 1994), 31-41.
"European Influence in Ukrainian Modernist Prose." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 34, No. 1-2 (March-June, 1992), 131-42.
Encyclopedia entry, Prose, in Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol 4, pp. 241-43.
"Majsternist' psyxolohichnoho analizu chy iljuzija psyxolohizmu? (Dva pryklady: Panas Myrnyj i Nechuj-Levyc'kyj" [In Ukrainian, Masterful Psychological Analysis or the Illusion of Psychology? (Two examples: Panas Myrnyj and Nechuj-Levyc'kyj]. Slovo i chas, 1992, No. 8, 75-79.
"Modernism in Ukrainian Prose." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 15, No. 3/4 (December 1991), 263-72.
"Ostannij tvir Pidmohyl'noho" [In Ukrainian, Pidmohyl'nyj's Last Work]. Vsesvit, 1991, No. 12, 174-77.
"Ivan Nechuj-Levyc'kyj's Realism." Adelphotes: A Tribute to Omeljan Pritsak by his Students; Harvard Ukrainian Studies 14, No. 3/4 (December 1990), 608-22.
"Nevtomnyj honec' v majbutnje. Ekzystencijal'ne prochytannja Mista Pidmohyl'noho" [In Ukrainian, translation of essay published originally in English (see below), Tireless Messenger Into the Future: An Existential Reading of Pidmohyl'nyj's Misto]. Slovo i chas 1991, No. 5, 56-63.
"Nevtomnyi honets v maibutnie: An Existential Reading of Valeriian Pidmohylny's Misto," Journal of Ukrainian Graduate Studies 4, No. 2 (Fall 1979), 3-19.
Translation of Valeriian Pidmohylny, "Vanja," Journal of Ukrainian Studies 10 No. 2 (Winter 1985), 49-67.

7. b. Books

Between Reason and Irrationality: The Prose of Valerijan Pidmohyl'nyj, Published January 1995 by the University of Toronto Press.

reviews:

Slavic and East European Journal 40:2 (Summer 1996) pp. 393–4, John Fizer.
Canadian Slavonic Papers 38:3–4 (Sept.-Dec. 1996) pp, 501–3, Marko Pavlyshyn.
Jounral of Ukrainian Studies 21:1–2 (Summer-Winter 1996) pp. 327–8, George S. N. Luckyj.

8. b. Non-Refereed Publications - Books

Weekdays and Sunday (Translation of Ivan Kernytsky's Budni i nedilja) Philadelphia: Mosty, 1999.

9. Manuscripts/publications in preparation

Monograph on the prose of Ivan Nechui-Levytskyi.
Collection of Essays on Modernism in Ukrainian literature, jointly authored by Maxim Tarnawsky, Danylo H. Struk and Oleh Ilnytzkyj.
"Mykola Jevshan--The Modernist Critic." Conference paper submitted for publication.

10. Papers Presented at Recent Meetings and Symposia

Paper presented at the AAASS conference in Denver, Colorado, November 9–12, 2000. "The Historical Context of Kvitka-Osnov'janenko's Humor."
Paper presented at the CAS conference in Edmonton, Alberta, May 27–29, 2000. "The Duality of Ol'ha Kobylians'ka."
Paper presented at the Conference on Ukrainian Politics in the 20th Century, Yale University, April 7–9, 2000. "Fictional Ukraine." By invitation.
Paper presented at the AAASS conference in St. Louis Missouri, November 18–21, 1999. "Mykhailo Rudnyts'kyi—Critic."
Paper presented at the conference "Ukrainians in Canada and the United States: Cross Border Interaction and Comparative Experiences" in Toronto, October 29–31, 1998. "What is Told in the Green Library."
Paper presented at the AAASS conference in Boca Raton, Florida, September 24–27, 1998. "Ivan Franko's Idealist Hero."
Paper presented at the AAASS conference in Seattle, Washington, November 20–23, 1997. "Franko's Realism."
Paper presented at the AAASS conference in Boston, Massachusetts, November 14–17, 1996. "The Humanist Clay of Honchar's Works."
Paper presented at the Third International Congress of Ukrainian Studies, Xarkiv, Ukraine, August 26–29, 1996. "Povtorennia v tvorax Ivana Nechuia-Levyts'koho" ("Repetition in the Works of Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi").
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, October 23-6, 1995, Washington, D.C., "Ivan Nechuj-Levyc'kyj and the Irrational."
Paper presented at the Conference People, Nations, Identities: The Russian-Ukrainian Encounter November 13-15, 1994, at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, "Nationalism, Romanticism, and Prejudice: Ivan Nechuj-Levyc'kyj's Hostility to Russia.'
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 18-22, 1993, Honolulu, Hawaii, "Feminism, Modernism, and Ukrainian Women."
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 19-22, 1992, Phoenix, Arizona, "Mykola Jevshan--The Modernist Critic."
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 22-25, 1991, Miami, "European Influence in Ukrainian Modernist Prose."
Paper presented in the Lecture Series of the Ukrainian National Home, November 28, 1990, in Toronto, "Rannja proza Valerijana Pidmohyl'noho."
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, October 18-21, 1990, Washington, D.C., "Modernism in Ukrainian Prose."

E. OTHER POSITIONS

Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, July 1995-1999.
Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Association of Slavists, 1992-95; 1995-1998.
Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1992-2001.

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