About
Marta Hulievska is a PhD student in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include Ukrainian literature and culture, Jewish-Ukrainian literary history, literary theory, feminist theory, cultural memory, Soviet and post-Soviet intellectual history, and comparative approaches to Eastern European literature.
Marta previously received a BA in History with a minor in English from Dartmouth College, where she graduated with honors. Her undergraduate research focused on the intersections of Ukrainian history, memory, nationalism, and cultural representation. Her senior honors thesis, “Contested Memory: Babyn Yar, Ukrainian Nationalism, and Holocaust Commemoration,” examined the changing politics of Holocaust remembrance in Ukraine from the Soviet period through the post-2014 era.
Her broader interests include Ukrainian writers and intellectuals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Jewish-Ukrainian literary and cultural relations, literature and political violence, representations of war and displacement, Soviet dissident and underground literature, Ukrainian feminist works, and the formation and contestation of literary canons.
At Dartmouth, Marta was a James O. Freedman Presidential Scholar and a War and Peace Fellow and worked as a Senior Intern at the Hood Museum of Art, where she conducted research on Eastern European collections and provenance. She also received a Leslie Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship to conduct research on Holocaust memory in Central and Eastern Europe, including archival and field research in Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Germany.
She served as President and Co-President of the Dartmouth Student Alliance for Ukraine, organizing educational, cultural, and advocacy programming concerning Ukraine. Marta has also worked on projects concerning contemporary Ukraine and U.S. foreign policy toward Eastern Europe, including Freedom House and the Democratic Erosion Consortium.
