Ulyana Veryna

Visiting Scholar

Research interests

Transnational and multilingual dimensions of literary modernity in historical and contemporary perspectives

Theories of genre and poetic form

Comparative Slavic literary studies

Dynamics and innovations of literary systems at moments of transformation

Theory and practice of poetic translation

Academic Employment

• July 2025–April 2026: research fellowship at the University of Bremen, Institute of European Studies, EU4Belarus: Support to Advanced Learning and Training (SALT II). Research Project: Transnational Turn as Literature Breaks with Language and Territory: East Slavic Vector
• July 2022–June 2025: Guest Researcher / Research Fellow, Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Oldenburg, Philipp Schwartz Initiative, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Research Project: Transnational Phenomena of the Literary Process in Belarus in the 1920s and 1930s
• 2020–2022: Associate Professor, Department of Belarusian Literature, Belarusian State University, Belarus
• 2018: research fellowship at the Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, Research and Teaching Project: Slovak-Russian-Belarusian Modern Poetry Translations in the Aspect of Slavic Languages and Literatures Analogy and Specificity 
• 2011–2022: Associate Professor, Department of Russian Literature, Belarusian State University, Belarus
• 2008–2011: Senior Lecturer at the Department of Russian Literature, Belarusian State University

Professional Activities

• since 2019: Guest Lecturer, School for Young Writers under the International Union of Belarusian Writers
• 2002-2008: Editor of the Editorial and Publishing Department, Belarusian State University

Education and qualifications

• 2020 Doctor of Science in Philology
• 2014 Academic title: Associate Professor, Literature Studies
• 2001 Doctor of Philosophy in Philology
• 1997–2000 Belarusian State University, postgraduate study
• 1992–1997     Belarusian State University, Philological Faculty, Belarusian and Russian languages and literatures

Recent Publications

Slova vojny i mira: poèzi? v krizisnye èpohi [Words of War and Peace: Poetry in Times of Crisis]. In: Minska? ?kola. Al?manah poèzii, [s.l.] 2025, issue V, pp. 228-240. Series 33 Books for another Belarus. www.33booksforanotherbelarus.ch

Russian-language writers in the transnational literary space of Belarus in the 1920s–early 1930s: paradoxes and the inevitability of the collective project's failure. In: Studia Bia?orutenistyczne. 2023, vol. 17, pp. 139-158. ISSN: 1898-0457.

Eppure, esistere [And yet, to exist]. In: Il mondo è finito e noi invece no: Antologia di poesia bielorussa del XXI secolo [The World Has Ended, but We Have Not: An Anthology of 21st-Century Belarusian Poetry], ed. by Alessandro Achilli, Giulia De Florio, Maya Halavanava, Massimo Maurizio, Dmitrij Strocev, translated into Italian by Giulia De Florio, WriteUp Books, 2024, p.15-30. ISBN 979-12-5544-059 8.

Russkoyazychnaya literatura Belarusi: k probleme dekolonizacii izucheniya i prepodavaniya [Russian-language Literature of Belarus: On the Problem of Decolonization of Study and Teaching], In: Slavica Beliana : slavistika v meniacom sa svete: aktuálne tendencie v lingvistike, literárnej vede, translatológii a kulturológii : zborník konferen?n?ch príspevkov, zost. Igor Cintula, Martin Lizoň, Anton Repoň ; rec. Josef Dohnal, ?ubomír Guzi. Banská Bystrica : Vydavate?stvo Univerzity Mateja Bela - Belianum, 2024, s. 28-39. ISBN 978-80-557-2165-1.

Wut, Schmerz und Leiden in Gennadij Aigis Poetik des (Ver-)Schweigens. In: Schmitt, A. / Stahl, Henrieke (Hrsg.): Lyrik und Existenz in der Gegenwart. Berlin 2023, Peter Lang Verlag. (= Neuere Lyrik. Interkulturelle und interdisziplin?re Studien, Band 15), pp. 79-92. ISBN 978-363-189-819-2.

Karan? ? pavetra [Roots and air]. In: Antalog?? paètak: vybranae Val'?ynaj Mort. Пфля?мба?м / Pfla?mba?m. ?ano?a? vydavecka? ?n?cy?tyva, 2023, pp. 3-19. ISBN: 9786099637105

En historia om tap og h?p: Belarusisk poesi f?r og etter sommeren 2020 [The story of losses and hopes: Belarusian poetry before and after the summer of 2020], translated into Norwegian by Marina Hobbel. In: Kritiker, issue 63, pp. 26-41. ISSN 1653-7432.

Monographs

Obnovlenie ?anrovoj sistemy russkoj po?zii rube?a XX–XXI vv. [Renewal of the genre system of Russian poetry at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries]. Minsk, 2017, 307 p. ISBN 978-985-566-444-5.

Kniga stichov kak fenomen kul’tury Rossii i Belarusi [A Book of poems as a culture phenomenon of Russia and Belarus] / Barkovskaja N.V., Verina U.Ju., Gurtina L.D., ?ibul’ V.Ju. Moskva; Ekaterinburg, 2016, 674 p. ISBN 978-5-7525-3050-0.

Verlibr u pa?zii belaruskaha avanharda 1980-1990-ch [Free verse in the poetry of the Belarusian avant-garde of the 1980s and 1990s]. Minsk, 2005, 91 p. ISBN 985-6767-42-3.

Interviews and videos

Radio Svaboda (“Instead of “Belarusisation” we would have had an independent Belarus…”), December 2, 2023, URL: www.svaboda.org/a/32710891.html 

Between the Miniature and the Novel: Yanka Bryl, video lectures in 2 parts, URL: www.youtube.com/watch;