Iuliana Matasova
Dr Iuliana Matasova îs a Ukrainian scholar of popular culture and comparative literature whose current research explores Ukrainian 1990s through women's popular music. Holding her PhD in Comparative Literature from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and MA in Comparative Cultural Studies from Jean Moulin Lyon 3, she has served as Associate Professor of Literature at Taras Shevchenko, and is now a displaced independent researcher. Matasova was RHS and BASEES Scholar-at-Risk at the University of Roehampton, Carnegie Research Fellow at Duke University, and Advanced Academia Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia. She has given talks at the Universities of Minnesota, Oxford, Chicago, and Basel. Matasova's scholarship of Ukrainian and American literatures and popular cultures appeared in Palgrave and Peter Lang essay collections and leading Ukrainian academic journals. She has written for Marie Claire Ukraine, translated at Kyiv Molodist International Film Festival, and discussed her research on Ukrainian television.