Romana M Bahry
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
Professor Emerita
Email: rbahry@yorku.ca
Degrees
Ph.D Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of TorontoM.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
B.A. (Honours) FRENCH and RUSSIAN, University of Toronto
Research Interests
- Associate of the University of Illinois Summer Research Laboratory, Russian and East European Centre, 1986-1989 - 1986-89
- University of Toronto Open Fellowship, 1970-1971, 1971-72 - 1971-72
- University of Toronto Open Fellowship, 1970-1971, 1971-72 - 1970-71
- 1991- Halle Dissertation Fellowship, New School for Social - 1991
- 1990 Alschul Scholarship, New School for Social Research - 1990
- Post-Graduate: Scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy) for a one-month Refresher Course for Teachers of Italian held at the Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy 1987 - 1987
- Saint Michael’s College Gold Medal in French 1971 - 1971
- Ford Fellowship, 1970. - 1970
- Taras Shevchenko Fellowship for Ukrainian, University of Toronto, 1969 - 1969
- Princeton University Fellowship, 1969. - 1969
- Alumnae Club Award for excellence in English to a graduating senior, 1959 - 1963
Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: Forgotten Chemist of Łańcut and Pioneer of Probiotics
Zapomniany aptekarz miasta Łańcuta i naukowiec-pionier probiotyki ( Toronto:York University Press, 2018) Bilingual English-Polish edition, 346 pages.
Shliakh sera Val'tera Skotta na Ukrainu. (The Path of Sir Walter Scott to Ukraine: The Adaptation of the Historical Novel Genre of Walter Scott by N. Gogol in "Taras Bulba" and by P. Kulish in "The Black Council"). Translated from English into Ukrainian by Ludmila Sharinova. (Kiev: Vsesvit, 1993.) 296 pp.
Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine (North York, Captus University Publications, 1990). 236 pages. Released January 1990, 2nd printing, March 1990.
“Existentialism and the Leap of Faith in the Works of Ukrainian Writers of the Sixties,” Twentieth Century Ukrainian Literature, Essays in honor of Dmytro Shtohryn, Ed. Jaroslaw Rozumnyi (Kyiv Mohyla Academy Publishing House, Kyiv, 2011) pp. 194-214
"Rock Culture and Rock Music in Ukraine," chapter 11 in book, Rocking the State: Rock Music and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia, edited by S.P. Ramet (Westview Press, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, 1994), pp.243-296.
"The Satirical Current in Popular Youth Culture, Rock Music and Film in Ukraine in the 1990's" pp. 146-164 in Ukraine in the 1990's, edited by Marko Pavlyshyn and J.E.M. Clarke (Monash University, Melbourne, 1992)
"Skaz Narrative in A. Svydnyts'kyi's Liuborats'ki, (The Liuboratski Family Chronicle)" pp. 35-49 in Living Record: Essays in Memory of Constantine Bida edited by Irena R. Makaryk (University of Ottawa Press, 1991).
"J.J. Rousseau's Emile and P. Kulish's Views on Education". In Working Order: Essays presented to G.S.N. Luckyj. Edited by E.N. Burstynsky and R. Lindheim (Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1990) pp. 57-79.
"Soviet Ukrainian Documentary Films and New Directions in Filmmaking," in Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine, ed. Romana M. Bahry (North York: Captus University Publications, 1990) pp. 188-197. Ukrainian translation in Novyny Kinoekrana (Film News, January 1992, Kiev. "Openness Does Not Destroy" Vidvertist ne ruinuie).
Introduction to Panteleimon Kulish, The Black Council, abridged and translated by George S.N. and Moira Luckyj. Ukrainian Classics in Translation, No. 2. Littleton Colorado, Ukrainian Academic Press, a Division of Libraries Unlimited, 1973. Pp. vii-xxii.
“Sources for the Forgotten 1912 Discovery of the Probiotic Bacterium Bacillus carpathicus in Huslanka and the Forgotten Discoverer, Dr. W.S. Kindraczuk: Pharmacist of Łańcut”, Organon 45, 2013: 185-207.Institute of the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
“Archival and Printed Sources for the Biography of the Galician Scientist Dr. W.S. Kindraczuk” in Proceedings of the International Conference: Knyzhkova ta rukopysna kultura: istoriia, metodolohiia, dzherelna baza (Tsentr nezalezhnykh istorychnykh studii, Lviv, May 2012)
“Subversions in Dovzhenko’s Earth”, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 32-33 (2011-2014) 97-106
"Dzhimmi Higgins: eskpresionistychna avangardysts'ka drama" Slovo i chas (Word and Time, Kiev) (July, 1994) No. 7 (403) pp. 67-74
"Les Kurbas' Jimmie Higgins: An Expressionist Avant-garde Drama" Canadian Slavonic Papers. XXXVI (Sept.-Dec., 1994) No. 3-4, pp. 349-362
"Rock and Roll Always Lives: The Rise of Rock Culture in Soviet Ukraine", Compass (Toronto) (March/April 1991) pp. 45-49.
"New Directions and Old Problems in Ukrainian Cinema" Suchasnist (Contemporary) (Munich - New York) (October 1990), No. 10, pp. 50-57. (Ukrainian)
"Notebooks of a Snub-Nosed Mephistopheles. Vsesvit (Universe) Kiev (November, 1990) pp. 166-171. ( Ukrainian)
"Existentialist and Absurdist Motifs in the Works of Contemporary Soviet Ukrainian Writers: V. Shevchuk's, Naberezhna 12 (Riverside 12) and M. Osadchy's Bil'mo (Cataract) . Suchasnist (Contemporary) (Munich - New York) (December, 1988), pp. 18-34 (Ukrainian)
"Reason and Instinct in V. Vynnychenko's Notebooks of a Snub Nosed Mephistopheles." Suchasnist (Contemporary) (Munich - New York) (April, 1987). (Ukrainian)
"Sir Walter Scott and Pantelejmon Kulis" Studies in Ukrainian Literature, ed. Bohdan Rubchak, The Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. XVI (1984-85), No. 41 42, pp. 135-73.
"The Use of Historical Sources in Taras Bulba and The Black Council" Studia Ucrainica 2, University of Ottawa Studies, No. 5, (University of Ottawa Press, 1984), p. 49-64.
"The Individual and History in the Historical Novel: P. Kulish's Black Council," Canadian Slavonic Papers, XXIV (June, 1982), No. 2, pp. 152-60.
"Superheroes, Gentlemen or Pariahs? The Cossacks in N. Gogol's Taras Bulba and P. Kulish's Black Council," Journal of Ukrainian Studies, V (Fall, 1980) No. 2, pp. 30-47.
"The Expressionist Experiment in Berezil': Kurbas and Kulish," Canadian Slavonic Papers XIV (1972), No. 2, pp. 324-44.",The Expressionist Experiment in Berezil': Kurbas and Kulish"
Degrees
Ph.D Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of TorontoM.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
B.A. (Honours) FRENCH and RUSSIAN, University of Toronto
Research Interests
Awards
- Associate of the University of Illinois Summer Research Laboratory, Russian and East European Centre, 1986-1989 - 1986-89
- University of Toronto Open Fellowship, 1970-1971, 1971-72 - 1971-72
- University of Toronto Open Fellowship, 1970-1971, 1971-72 - 1970-71
- 1991- Halle Dissertation Fellowship, New School for Social - 1991
- 1990 Alschul Scholarship, New School for Social Research - 1990
- Post-Graduate: Scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy) for a one-month Refresher Course for Teachers of Italian held at the Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy 1987 - 1987
- Saint Michael’s College Gold Medal in French 1971 - 1971
- Ford Fellowship, 1970. - 1970
- Taras Shevchenko Fellowship for Ukrainian, University of Toronto, 1969 - 1969
- Princeton University Fellowship, 1969. - 1969
- Alumnae Club Award for excellence in English to a graduating senior, 1959 - 1963
All Publications
“Existentialism and the Leap of Faith in the Works of Ukrainian Writers of the Sixties,” Twentieth Century Ukrainian Literature, Essays in honor of Dmytro Shtohryn, Ed. Jaroslaw Rozumnyi (Kyiv Mohyla Academy Publishing House, Kyiv, 2011) pp. 194-214
"Rock Culture and Rock Music in Ukraine," chapter 11 in book, Rocking the State: Rock Music and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia, edited by S.P. Ramet (Westview Press, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, 1994), pp.243-296.
"The Satirical Current in Popular Youth Culture, Rock Music and Film in Ukraine in the 1990's" pp. 146-164 in Ukraine in the 1990's, edited by Marko Pavlyshyn and J.E.M. Clarke (Monash University, Melbourne, 1992)
"Skaz Narrative in A. Svydnyts'kyi's Liuborats'ki, (The Liuboratski Family Chronicle)" pp. 35-49 in Living Record: Essays in Memory of Constantine Bida edited by Irena R. Makaryk (University of Ottawa Press, 1991).
"J.J. Rousseau's Emile and P. Kulish's Views on Education". In Working Order: Essays presented to G.S.N. Luckyj. Edited by E.N. Burstynsky and R. Lindheim (Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1990) pp. 57-79.
"Soviet Ukrainian Documentary Films and New Directions in Filmmaking," in Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine, ed. Romana M. Bahry (North York: Captus University Publications, 1990) pp. 188-197. Ukrainian translation in Novyny Kinoekrana (Film News, January 1992, Kiev. "Openness Does Not Destroy" Vidvertist ne ruinuie).
Introduction to Panteleimon Kulish, The Black Council, abridged and translated by George S.N. and Moira Luckyj. Ukrainian Classics in Translation, No. 2. Littleton Colorado, Ukrainian Academic Press, a Division of Libraries Unlimited, 1973. Pp. vii-xxii.
Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: Forgotten Chemist of Łańcut and Pioneer of Probiotics
Zapomniany aptekarz miasta Łańcuta i naukowiec-pionier probiotyki ( Toronto:York University Press, 2018) Bilingual English-Polish edition, 346 pages.
Shliakh sera Val'tera Skotta na Ukrainu. (The Path of Sir Walter Scott to Ukraine: The Adaptation of the Historical Novel Genre of Walter Scott by N. Gogol in "Taras Bulba" and by P. Kulish in "The Black Council"). Translated from English into Ukrainian by Ludmila Sharinova. (Kiev: Vsesvit, 1993.) 296 pp.
Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine (North York, Captus University Publications, 1990). 236 pages. Released January 1990, 2nd printing, March 1990.
“Sources for the Forgotten 1912 Discovery of the Probiotic Bacterium Bacillus carpathicus in Huslanka and the Forgotten Discoverer, Dr. W.S. Kindraczuk: Pharmacist of Łańcut”, Organon 45, 2013: 185-207.Institute of the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
“Archival and Printed Sources for the Biography of the Galician Scientist Dr. W.S. Kindraczuk” in Proceedings of the International Conference: Knyzhkova ta rukopysna kultura: istoriia, metodolohiia, dzherelna baza (Tsentr nezalezhnykh istorychnykh studii, Lviv, May 2012)
“Subversions in Dovzhenko’s Earth”, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 32-33 (2011-2014) 97-106
"Dzhimmi Higgins: eskpresionistychna avangardysts'ka drama" Slovo i chas (Word and Time, Kiev) (July, 1994) No. 7 (403) pp. 67-74
"Les Kurbas' Jimmie Higgins: An Expressionist Avant-garde Drama" Canadian Slavonic Papers. XXXVI (Sept.-Dec., 1994) No. 3-4, pp. 349-362
"Rock and Roll Always Lives: The Rise of Rock Culture in Soviet Ukraine", Compass (Toronto) (March/April 1991) pp. 45-49.
"New Directions and Old Problems in Ukrainian Cinema" Suchasnist (Contemporary) (Munich - New York) (October 1990), No. 10, pp. 50-57. (Ukrainian)
"Notebooks of a Snub-Nosed Mephistopheles. Vsesvit (Universe) Kiev (November, 1990) pp. 166-171. ( Ukrainian)
"Existentialist and Absurdist Motifs in the Works of Contemporary Soviet Ukrainian Writers: V. Shevchuk's, Naberezhna 12 (Riverside 12) and M. Osadchy's Bil'mo (Cataract) . Suchasnist (Contemporary) (Munich - New York) (December, 1988), pp. 18-34 (Ukrainian)
"Reason and Instinct in V. Vynnychenko's Notebooks of a Snub Nosed Mephistopheles." Suchasnist (Contemporary) (Munich - New York) (April, 1987). (Ukrainian)
"Sir Walter Scott and Pantelejmon Kulis" Studies in Ukrainian Literature, ed. Bohdan Rubchak, The Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. XVI (1984-85), No. 41 42, pp. 135-73.
"The Use of Historical Sources in Taras Bulba and The Black Council" Studia Ucrainica 2, University of Ottawa Studies, No. 5, (University of Ottawa Press, 1984), p. 49-64.
"The Individual and History in the Historical Novel: P. Kulish's Black Council," Canadian Slavonic Papers, XXIV (June, 1982), No. 2, pp. 152-60.
"Superheroes, Gentlemen or Pariahs? The Cossacks in N. Gogol's Taras Bulba and P. Kulish's Black Council," Journal of Ukrainian Studies, V (Fall, 1980) No. 2, pp. 30-47.
"The Expressionist Experiment in Berezil': Kurbas and Kulish," Canadian Slavonic Papers XIV (1972), No. 2, pp. 324-44.",The Expressionist Experiment in Berezil': Kurbas and Kulish"
