Sasha Dovzhyk
““I think of the body of Ukrainian culture as a canvas where Russia is constantly burning new holes.””
© Anastasiia Telikova
Sasha Dovzhyk was born in the industrial city of Zaporizhzhia in the South-East of Ukraine three years before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
She gained a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Birkbeck (University of London), taught at Birkbeck and UCL, and published in peer-reviewed journals before parting with academia. Previously writing on topics as diverse as the legacies of Chornobyl and Victorian decadence, since 2022 she has been mostly interested in Ukraine's full-scale resistance to Russia's aggression. Her words are published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, New Lines Magazine, CNN Opinion, and others.
In 2021-23, she was a special projects curator for the Ukrainian Institute London, curating a writing residency, Ukraine Lab, and an online course, Literatura. She continues to edit the London Ukrainian Review.
Sasha regularly gives public talks and interviews, and moderates events on the topics of Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion and Ukrainian traditions of resistance.
After nine years in London, she returned to Ukraine in late 2023 to help set up INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange, a new cultural and research institution based in Lviv. She currently serves as its programme director.
She is one of the co-editors who prepared for publication late writer and war crimes investigator Victoria Amelina's nonfiction book Looking At Women Looking At War: A War and Justice Diary.
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