The Department is delighted to announce that Dr. Bohdan Tokarskyi will join us on July 1, 2024 as our new Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, with a focus on Ukrainian literature and culture. Currently, he is a Research Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute through May, working on a research project entitled Between Modernism and the Gulag: Vasyl Stus’s Poetics of Authenticity. For the fall 2024 term, he will teach SLAVIC 165: Poetics of Resistance: An Introduction to Ukrainian Literature.  Welcome, Professor Tokarskyi!