Dmytro Drozdovskyi Дмитро Дроздовський
Born	(1987-02-18) February 18, 1987 Odesa, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine
Occupation	critic, scientist, comparatist, essayist, poet, novelist
Nationality	Ukrainian
Genre	Ukrainian literature
Notable works	Meridian of Understanding (2011).

Dmytro Ihorovych Drozdovskyi (Ukrainian: Дмитро́ І́горович Дроздо́вський, born 18 February 1987, Odesa, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian scientist, literary critic, writer, editor, and translator. Since 2012, he has been working as managing editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian magazine of translations "Vsesvit". He is a PhD academic fellow of the Department of world literature of the Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Drozdovskyi is a member of the Supreme Council of the Writer's Union of Ukraine. In 2013, he has competed his PhD dissertation "Reception of William Shakespeare in Ukrainian emigration literature process of 1940-1960-s". Drozdovskyi is a scholar whose academic goals are in the field of contemporary English and British literature, European studies, Shakespearean studies and cultural explanations of post-postmodernism which combines modern and postmodern aesthetics.^[1]

He was a participant of the XIX and XX-th Congresses of the International Association of Comparative Literature (Seoul 2010; Paris 2013) and the International Shakespearean Congress.^[2] Drozdovskyi also investigated the historical method of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi.^[3][4]

Drozdovskyi is a pro-European^[5][6] and pro-US^[7] thinker and critic^[8] in Ukraine. He was one of the first to struggle against Kivalov-Kolesnichenko anti-Ukrainian language law^[9][10][11] and he was in opposition to ex-Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine D. Tabachnyk regime.^[12]

Some of Drozdovskyi's poems were translated into French and published in anthologies.^[13]

Together with Rory Finnin he initiated the annual Cambridge Vsesvit Readings at the University of Cambridge.^[14]

Education

Drozdovskyi belongs to alumni of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He finished his Master program of Arts and Humanities in 2010 (specialty Theory, history of literature and comparative studies). He has been working for 5 years as a press-secretary of the NaUKMA.

Works

• Code of the Future (Kyiv, 2006, supervisor of the book is Prof. Oxana Pachlovska)
• Meridian of Understanding (Kyiv, 2011)
• Between Demonic and Historiosophic: William Shakespeare in Modern and Post-Postmodern Outlines (Kyiv, 2014)

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