George Grabowicz

{{Short description|Ukrainian-American professor of Ukrainian literature}}

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{{Infobox academic

| name = George Grabowicz

|honorific_suffix=Shevchenko National Prize laureate

| native_name = Григорій Юлійович Грабович

| image = George Grabowicz 2019.jpg

| birth_date = 12 October 1943

| birth_place = Kraków, General Government

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| nationality = Ukrainian

| citizenship = American

| occupation = Academic, professor, literary critic

| titles = Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature at Harvard University

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| era = 20th century

| discipline = Ukrainian literature

| workplaces = Harvard University

| main_interests = Taras Shevchenko, Pavlo Tychyna

| notable_works = The Poet as Mythmaker: A Study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Ševčenko

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George Gregory Grabowicz ({{langx|uk|Юрій Григорій Грабович}}; born 12 October 1943, Kraków, General Government), known in Ukraine as Hryhorii Yuliiovych Hrabovych ({{langx|uk|Грабович, Григорій Юлійович}}),{{Cite web|title=Грабович, якого не знаємо|date=2015-12-08|url=https://uamoderna.com/event/hundorova-grabowicz/|website=Україна модерна|access-date=2025-06-01}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Grabowicz George G. |url=https://pen.org.ua/en/members/grabowicz-george-g |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=PEN Ukraine |language=en}}

He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Krytyka magazine since 1997.{{Cite web |title=Grabowicz George G. |url=https://pen.org.ua/en/members/grabowicz-george-g |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=PEN Ukraine |language=en}} 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){{Cite web |script-title=uk:Лауреати Національної премії |trans-title=National Award Winners |url=https://knpu.gov.ua/khronolohiia-prysudzhennia-natsionalnoi-premii/ |access-date=13 June 2025 |website=Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine |language=uk}}

Links

  • [https://george-grabowicz.faculty.slavic.fas.harvard.edu/home G. Grabowicz website at Harvard University]
  • [https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CG%5CR%5CGrabowiczGeorge.htm G. Grabowicz in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine]
  • [https://www.husj.harvard.edu/articles/george-g-grabowicz-a-biographical-sketch A Biographical Sketch about G.Grabowicz]

References