Head and shoulders image of Dr. Maryna Romanets, sessional lecturer in English.

Bio/historical note: Image appeared in 9 Apr. 1999 issue of OCN.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Maryna Romanets holds an MA (Chernivtsi Ukraine), a PhD from Kyiv (Ukrainian National Academy of Arts and Science), and a PhD (Saskatchewan). Dr. Romanets specializes in comparative, postcolonial, and women’s literatures, and contemporary critical theory. She has published articles and book chapters on the issues of representation and gender, post-colonialism and intertextual relations, politics and language, and translation theory and praxis. Dr. Romanets is the author of Anamorphosic Texts and Reconfigured Visions: Improvised Traditions in Contemporary Ukrainian and Irish Literature (2007) and coeditor of Beauty, Violence, Representation (2014, 2017). Her latest title, Ukrainian Erotomaniac Fictions: First Postindependence Wave, appeared in 2019, and she is currently working on an edited volume that examines Central and East-European neo-Gothic cultural productions after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Dr. Romanets is currently professor, English/Women's and Gender Studies at the University of British Columbia (2021).