Research | Oksana Maksymchuk

Philosophy

“Hegel and Plato on Ordinary Insight into the Good” [with Andreja Novakovic], The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 30.4 (2022): 707-726.

“How Man Became the Measure: An Anthropological Defense of the Measure Doctrine in the Protagoras,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103.4 (2021): 571-601.

“Plato on the Value of Amusement,” in Moral Psychology of Amusement. Edited by Brian Robinson. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2021, 175-191.

Literature and Translation

“Imagining the Future in Liminal Times: Ukrainian Futurists in Search of a Post-National Identity,” in Crisis: The Avant-Garde and Modernism in Critical Modes. Edited by Sascha Bru et al. De Gruyter: Berlin & New York, 2022.

“Cosmonauts of Negative Space: The Descent into the Underworld in Svetlana Lavochkina’s Slag,” POEM 6.1 (2018): 103-116.

“Learning from One’s Inner Thucydides: Reflections on Translating Svetlana Alexievich,” Translation Review 97.1 (2017).

“Translating Dark Humor in the Ukrainian Folk Songs,” The Philological Studies Journal, Ivan Franko National University, Lviv, 2006.

Selected Conference Presentations & Invited Lectures

Literature and Translation

"Mra-Remeslo: The Darkness of Poesis in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Writings” [presenter and co-author: M. Rosochinsky], conference: “In the Dark Spaces of Language,” Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, September 2021.

“Heroism, Emotions, and Ideology in Svetlana Alexievich’s War’s Unwomanly Face” [presenter and co-author: M. Rosochinsky], conference: “She is Made of Stone: Woman in the Socialist and Post-Socialist Public Spaces,” European University Institute, Florence, Italy, September 2021.

“Diversity, Survival, and Change: The Afterlives of Bestiarum Vocabulum,” Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, February 2021.

“New Poetries of Donbas: The Lines That We Won’t Share,” conference: “Five Years of War in Donbas: Cultural Responses and Reverberations,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA, November 2019.

“Museification and Memefication in the Digital Literary Spaces and Media” [presenter and co-author: M. Rosochinsky], conference: “Technology, Culture, and Society in the Eurasian Space,” Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland, October 2019.

Philosophy

“How Man Became the Measure: The Anthropological Backing for the Measure Doctrine in the Protagoras,” West Coast Plato Workshop, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA, May 2019.

“The Defense of the Philosopher in the Digression of the Theaetetus,” 115th Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, New York, USA, January 2019.

“Aristotle’s Account of Dream Images in Parva Naturalia,” Aristotle World Congress, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2016.

“Affective Illusions in Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia,” Ancient Philosophy Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, January 2016.

“A Doctor as a Philosopher and the Etiology of Disease in Galen’s Medical Writings,” KOSMOS Summer University “Globalized Classics,” Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, August 2015.

“Political Virtue in Protagoras’ Great Speech,” 3rd Ancient Philosophy Conference, University of California, Riverside, CA, April 2015.

“Non-rational Motivation in Plato’s Protagoras,” Journal for the History of Philosophy Summer Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, USA, June 2014.

“Socrates’ Account of Knowledge as an Art of Measurement in the Protagoras,” U.S. Meeting of the International Plato Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, October 2012.