George Grabowicz

George Gregory Grabowicz (Ukrainian: Юрій Григорій Грабович, romanized: Hryhorii Yuliiovych Hrabovych;^[1] born October 12, 1943) is a Ukrainian and American literary critic and professor in the Department of Ukrainian Literature at both the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.^[2]

George Grabowicz
Григорій Грабович
Born	(1943-10-12) October 12, 1943 (age 81) Kraków, General Government
Occupation(s)	Academic, professor, literary critic
Title	Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature at Harvard University
Academic background
Education	Yale University
Alma mater	Harvard University
Academic work
Era	20th century
Discipline	Ukrainian literature
Institutions	Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Main interests	Taras Shevchenko, Pavlo Tychyna
Notable works	The Poet as Mythmaker: A Study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Ševčenko
Website	george-grabowicz.faculty.slavic.fas.harvard.edu/home

He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Krytyka magazine since 1997.^[3] His research concerns the history of Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian literature and their interrelationships. His special research focus are Ukrainian writers Taras Shevchenko and Pavlo Tychyna. In 2012–2018, he was the chairman of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the USA. He was the president and one of the founders of the International Association of Ukrainian Studies.

Awards

• Honorary doctor of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1997)
• Order "For Intellectual Courage" (2004)
• Antonovych prize (2008)
• Shevchenko National Prize (2022)^[4]

Links

• G. Grabowicz website at Harvard University
• G. Grabowicz in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine
• A Biographical Sketch about G.Grabowicz