Russia's invasion of Ukraine has not only impacted the Ukrainian people, it has also put Ukrainian cultural heritage in jeopardy. From museums with irreplaceable collections to libraries with unique manuscripts, all of these materials are at risk of being lost. While rescuing physical objects is extremely difficult in the circumstances of war, many museums and libraries have put digital surrogates of some of their collections online -- or at least records of the existence of these objects. On March 1st, the SUCHO (Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online) project launched to try to create...

In February 2021, Yuliya Ilchuk published her first book titled, Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity. One of the great writers of the nineteenth century, Nikolai Gogol was born and raised in Ukraine before he was lionized and canonized in Russia. The ambiguities within his subversive, ironic works are matched by those that surround the debate over his national identity. This book presents a completely new assessment of the problem: rather than adopting the predominant "either/or" perspective – wherein Gogol is seen as either Ukrainian or Russian – it shows how his cultural...