Olena S. Dmytryk
Dr Olenka Syaivo Dmytryk received their PhD in Slavonic Studies from the University of Cambridge. Their work focuses on Ukraine and is located at the crossing of social movements studies, the histories and theories of sexuality and gender, and visual culture studies. Their current research aims to better understand the role of the Internet in sustaining or limiting sexual and gender dissent in Ukraine. They are a co-editor of the Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies journal and collaborate with the Invisible University For Ukraine. They work as a History of Art librarian but prefer doing research at home in the company of a cat called Soya.
The course aims to engage students in a dialogue with different disciplinary frameworks that explore the concepts of sexuality and decoloniality, and their intersection with other epistemic categories. These frameworks, that include anthropology, sociology, gender, queer and trans* studies, are introduced with attention to and focus on the “decolonial option” as a method and source of knowledge.