Ksenya Kiebuzinski
Areas of interest
- French-Ukrainian cultural relations during the 19th century
- Austrian Galician history
- Theatre and politics
- History of the book
Biography
Ksenya Kiebuzinski is Head of the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre, and Slavic Resources Coordinator, for the University of Toronto Libraries. She also co-directs (with Professor Lucan Way) the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, and coordinates the Ukraine Research Group, at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. Her research interests include nineteenth-century French stage representations of Ukraine, its historical figures, and events, as well as bibliography, the history of the book, and Austrian Galicia. Recent publications include a forthcoming volume The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941: A Sourcebook (Amsterdam UP, 2016), co-edited with Alexander Motyl, and Maximum Imaginativeness: An Exhibition on Modern Czech Book Design, 1900–1950: Exhibition and Catalogue (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2015), plus articles on Sacher-Masoch’s Galician tales in French translation, for a volume she coedited of the journal 20th-century Ukraine: Culture, Ideology, Politics (2015); another on Léo Delibes’ Galician opera ‘Kassya,’ Austrian History Yearbook (2015); and one on a Carpathian band of brigands for a festschrift in honor of Paul Robert Magocsi (2015).
Select publications
(with Alexander Motyl). The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941: A Sourcebook. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. 392 p.
“Captured: On Oral History, Photography, and the Trial of Jura Drahiruk.” In A Jubilee Collection: Essays in Honor of Professor Paul Robert Magocsi on His 70th Birthday, ed. Valerii Padiak, Patricia A. Krafcik. Uzhhorod; Prešov; New York: Valerii Padiak Publishers, 2015. 329–40.
“Les brouillards galiciens: Sacher-Masoch’s Galician Tales in French Translation, 1870–1900” (in Ukrainian). In Ukraïna XX stolittia: kul′tura, ideolohiia, polityka: zbirnyk statei, ed. Larysa Holovata, Ksenya Kiebuzinski. Lviv: Pastr-7, 2015. 217–28.
“Dancing the Kolomyika at the Opéra-Comique: Léo Delibes’ Galician Opera Kassya.” Austrian History Yearbook 46 (2015): 134–62.
Maximum Imaginativeness: An Exhibition on Modern Czech Book Design, 1900–1950: Exhibition and Catalogue. Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2015. 100 p.
“L'Ukrainien défendu: Censorship, Diplomacy and Literary Questions in an Era of Franco-Russian Rapprochement.” In “Zhnyva: Essays Presented in Honor of George G. Grabowicz on His Seventieth Birthday,” ed. Roman Koropeckyj, Taras Koznarsky, and Maxim Tarnawsky, special issue, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 32-33, pt.1 (2011–2014): 425-36.
