About
Grace Mahoney specializes in Ukrainian and Russian languages and literatures. Her dissertation, Mutable Monuments: (De)Constructing Literary Memorials to National Writers in Imperial Contexts, Ukraine and Russia Since the Nineteenth Century, makes a case for the critical role of literary memorials as sites of negotiation between public and state. She has published articles and book reviews in East/West Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Studies Journal, and Companion to Victor Pelevin (Academic Studies Press). She is a co-editor of the Krytyka Forum on Race and Post Colonialism in Ukraine and North America. As a Graduate Student Instructor, Grace has taught Russian 1, Ukrainian 1, Slavic 312, Russian 347, and Russian 375.
Grace is the series editor of the award-winning Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. Her translations of Iryna Starovoyt's poetry, A Field of Foundlings, was the inagural book of the series in 2017, which has since published fourteen volumes. Grace's translations of Ukrainian and Russian poetry and prose have been featured in AGNI, Alchemy, Apofenie, Close Encounters in War, Ploughshares, Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations, The Country Where Everyone's Name is Fear, and Voices of Freedom. A Field of Foundlings has been positively reviewed in East/West Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Poetry International, and Poetry Northwest.
Grace is the Graduate Fellow for Exhibits at U-M's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG). In this role she has co-curated the exhibition 'I have a crisis for you': Ukrainian Women Artists Respond to War (with Jessica Zychowicz, Fall 2022) and Portraits of Feminism in Japan (Winter 2023). As part of her certificate work in the Museum Studies Program, Grace interned at the Mikhail Bulgakov Literary Memorial Museum in Kyiv and sucessfully implimented a digital collections project that is available as an open resource through University of Michigan Libraries Digital Content and Collections (see The Mikhail Bulgakov Digital Collection).
Fulbright U.S. Student Researcher, Ukraine (2014-15)
B.A. English, Seattle University (2010)
B.A. Visual Art, Seattle University (2010)
