Roman Koropeckyj

Selected Works

• “T. Ševčenko’s ‘Davydovi psalmy‘: A Romantic Psalter.” Slavic and East European Journal 27 (1983): 228–44.
• ‘The Kiev-Mohyla Collegium and Seventeenth-Century Polish-English Literary Contacts: A Polish Translation of Henry Montagu’s Manchester al Mondo.” In The Kiev Mohyla Academy. Commemorating the 350th Anniversary of Its Founding (1632), 136–54. Cambridge, Mass., 1985 (=Harvard Ukrainian Studies 8 [1984]).
• “The Slap, the Feral Child, and the Steed: Pasek Settles Accounts with Mazepa.” In Adelphotes: A Tribute to Omeljan Pritsak by His Students, ed. Frank E. Sysyn, 415–26. Cambridge, Mass., 1991 (=Harvard Ukrainian Studies 14 [1990]).
• “Unexpected Affinities: Slavic Literature in the Illustrated Polytechnic Review.” Victorian Periodicals Review 26 (1993): 213–20.
• “‘The Weakly-Colored Dahlia’: The Ruthenian Language Question in Jan Zachariasiewicz’s Święty Jur.” Die Welt der Slaven, 1995, vol.1:1–21.
• Lev Krevza’s Defense of Church Unity and Zaxarija Kopystens’kyj’s Palinodia. Trans. Bohdan Struminsky. 2 pts. Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: English Translations, 3. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1995. Ed., with Dana Miller and William Veder.
• “Konstrukcje homoseksualizmu w Dzienniku Jana Lechonia (Próba innej lektury)” [Constructions of homosexuality in Jan Lechoń’s Diary (An essay in alternative reading)]. Teksty Drugie, 1996, no. 4:154–68.
• “Narrative and Social Drama in Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz.” Slavonic and East European Review 76 (1998): 467–83.
• “Edmond Mainard et sa biographie d’Adam Mickiewicz.” Mickiewicz 1798–1998: bicentenaire de la naissance. Spec. issue of Actes de la Société Historiques et Littéraire Polonaise 4 (1998): 101–19.
• “Wieloznaczność Robaka” [The polysemous Robak]. In Miniatura i mikrologia. Vol. 1. Ed. Aleksander Nawarecki. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2000, 119–34.
• “Lechoń, Jan.” In Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History. Vol. 1, From Antiquity to World War II. Ed. Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon. London and New York: Routledge, 2001, s.v.
• The Poetics of Revitalization: Adam Mickiewicz between Forefathers’ Eve, part 3 and Pan Tadeusz. Boulder: East European Monographs. 2001.
  • 2002 AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies
  • Polish Institute of Art and Sciences in America 2003 Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award
• “Orientalism in Adam Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets.” Slavic and East European Journal 45 (2001): 660–78.
• “Taras Shevchenko’s Encounters with the Kazaks.” Journal of Ukrainian Studies 27.1–2 (2002): 9–31.
• “Desire and Procreation in the Ukrainian Tales of Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnov’ianenko.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 44 (2002): 165–73.
• “Marek Hłasko’s Letters from America.” In Living in Translation: Polish Writers in America. Ed. Halina Stefan, 171–91. Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, 38. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2003.
• With Robert Romanchuk. “Ukraine in Blackface: Performance and Representation in Nikolai Gogol’s Evenings on a Farm near Dikan’ka.” Slavic Review 62 (2003): 525–47.
• “Between Classicism and Romanticism: The Year 1820 in Polish Literature.” In History of the Literary Cultures in East-Central Europe. Vol. 1, Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Ed. Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer, 325–32. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Press 2004.
• “Adam Mickiewicz and the Shape of Polish Romanticism.” In A Companion to European Romanticism. Ed. Michael Ferber, 326–44. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, 38. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
• With Robert DeLossa and Robert Romanchuk. Розмовляймо! (Let’s Talk!): A Basic Ukrainian Course with Polylogs, Grammar, and Conversation Lessons. Bloomington: Slavica, 2005.
  • 2007 AATSEEL Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy
  • Reviews
• Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008.
  • Honorable Mention, 2008 AAP PROSE Award in Literature, Language & Linguistics
  • 2009 AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies
  • 2009 AATSEEL Award for Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies
  • A 2009 Choice Magazine “Outstanding Academic Title”
  • Reviews
  • Book Talk: UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies (March 2009)
• “Saved by Translation: Stanisław Barańczak on the Practice of Translation.” In Between Texts, Languages, and Cultures, A Festschrift for Michael Henry Heim. Ed. Craig Cravens, Masako U. Fidler & Susan C. Kresin. Bloomington: Slavica, 2008, 317–23.
• “Symbolizing (the Real) Mickiewicz.” East European Politics and Societies 24 (2010): 399–407.
• “Adam Mickiewicz as a Polish National Icon.” In History of the Literary Cultures in East-Central Europe. Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Vol. 4, Types and Stereotypes. Ed. Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer, 19–39. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Press, 2010.
• “The Self-Portraits of Taras Shevchenko: An Attempt at a Typology.” In Taras Ševečenko (1814–1861). Création culturelle et conscience national. Ed. Ulrich Schmid. Special Issue of Revue des études slaves 85.3 (2014): 457–74.
• “The Image of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Polish Romanticism and Its Post-Romantic Reflex.” In Stories of Khmalnytsky: Comepeting Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising, edited by Amelia M. Glaser, 110–23. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2015.
• “A Note on a Note in Taras Shevchenko’s Haidamaky.” In “Жнива: Essays in Honor of George G. Grabowicz on His Seventieth Birthday,” edited by Roman Koropeckyj, Taras Kozanarsky, and Maxim Tarnawsky. Special Issue, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 32–33 (2011–2014): 457–69
• With Robert Romanchuk. “Harkusha the Noble Bandit and the ‘Minority’ of Little Russian Literature.” The Russian Review 76 (April 2017): 294–310.