Professor Tamara Hundorova graduated from Kyiv University and defended both her Candidate and Doctor dissertations at Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. She is affiliated as Principal Scholar Fellow with the Institute of Literature and is an Associate Fellow of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She is a Corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine and the member of PEN Ukraine.

She is the author of eleven books including “Lesia Ukrainka. Knyhy Sybilly”(2023), The Post-Chornobyl Library. The Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (2019), Tranzytna kultura. Symptoher postkolonial’noji trauher (2013); Pisliachornobyl’s’ka biblioteka. Ukrains’kyj literaturnyj postmodernism (2005, second edition 2013); Kitsch i literatura. Travestii (2008); Proiavlennia slova. Dyskursiia rannioho ukrains’koho modernizmu (1997, second edition 2009); Franko i/ne Kameniar (2006); Femina melancholica. Stat' i kul'tura v gendernij utopii Ol'hy Kobylians'koi (2002) and others.

Her field of interests is large, and covers such areas as modernism, postmodernism, feminism, postcolonial studies and history of Ukrainian literature.

She has taught courses at Princeton University (USA), Toronto University (Canada), Greifswald University (Germany), Ukrainian Free University (Germany), Kyiv-Mohyla University (Ukraine), Kyiv National University (Ukraine).

She has received the following awards, grants and fellowships: Fulbright Scholar (1998, 2009), Visiting scholar of Monash university (Australia, 1991) and a recipient of Yacyk Distinguished Fellowship (2009), Shklar fellowship (HURI, 2001-2002), Foreign visitors fellowship (Hokkaido University, 2004), MUNK School of Global Affair fellowship (University of Toronto, 2017), and Fellow of Philipp Schwartz-Initiative of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Justus Liebig University Giessen, 2022 - Jan 2023).

For the spring 2024 term, she will teach Slavic 164: Literature of Catastrophe: Ukraine 1917-2022 and Slavic 265: Readings in Ukrainian Literature and Culture.