Sonya Bilocerkowycz
Professor and Author of On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine (Ohio State University Press, 2019), winner of the Gournay Prize for a debut essay collection. Sonya’s
work has appeared in New York Review of Books, Lit Hub, Colorado Review, Guernica, and other journals. Currently, she is the Director of Creative Writing at SUNY Geneseo in upstate New York, and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.
This course, created by Prof. Sonya Bilocerkowycz, will examine how Ukrainian writers, filmmakers, and artists depict experiences of war, displacement, ecocide, colonial resistance, and other urgent concerns. Not only that, but we’ll consider how thinking alongside the work of Ukrainian creators can help us strategize ways to address global challenges as well as issues in our local communities. In signing up for this course, students agree to read and write frequently, to share their thoughtful impressions with others, and to help foster an environment of respectful dialogue and collective curiosity.