Irene (Irena) Rima Makaryk is a Canadian English-language academic, author, and distinguished professor at the University of Ottawa.

Education edit

Makaryk earned a bachelor of arts degree (1974), a master of arts degree (1975), and a PhD (1980), all from the University of Toronto.[1]

Career edit

Makaryk joined the University of Ottawa in 1981 and was given the rank of distinguished professor in 2018; she teaches English at the faculty of arts.[1][2] She is also the vice-dean of the faculty of graduate and postdoctoral studies.[2]

Her research focusses on theatrical modernism, Shakespeare, Ukrainian Shakespeare, the arts in times of war, Soviet theatre, Les Kurbas, cultural history, and Arctic diaries.[1][3][4]

Makaryk appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Company's Ideas (radio show) on November 3, 2021.[5]

Selected publications edit

  • Irena Makaryk and Diana Brydon (editors), Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere, University of Toronto Press, 2002 ISBN 978-0-8020-3655-1[6]
  • Irena Makaryk, April in Paris: Theatricality, Modernism, and Politics at the 1925 Art Deco Expo. University of Toronto Press, 2018[7][8]
  • Irena Makaryk, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms, University of Toronto Press, 1993 ISBN 978-0-8020-6860-6
  • Irena R. Makaryk, About the Harrowing of Hell: A Seventeenth-Century Ukrainian Play in Its European Context, Dovehouse Editions 1989 ISBN 978-0-919473-89-8
  • Irena Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz, Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation, University of Toronto Press, 2010[9][10]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Irene (Irena) Rima Makaryk". uniweb.uottawa.ca. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  2. ^ a b "The University of Ottawa is proud to present it's 2018-2019 Distinguished University Professors". Ottawa Citizen. 9 Oct 2019. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  3. ^ "2018-2019 uOttawa Distinguished University Professors". Gazette. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  4. ^ "IDEAS schedule for November 2021". CBC. 29 Oct 2021.
  5. ^ "Ideas with Nahlah Ayed - Shakespeare in Translation". CBC. 3 Nov 2021.
  6. ^ Kerr, Rosalind (2002-01-01). "Diana Brydon and Irina R. Makaryk, eds. Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere". Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada. 23 (1–2): 161–164. doi:10.3138/tric.23.1_2.161. ISSN 1913-9101.
  7. ^ Rewa, Natalie (2020). "April in Paris: Theatricality, Modernism, and Politics at the 1925 Art Deco Expo by Irene R. Makaryk (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. 89 (3): 621–622. doi:10.3138/utq.89.3.hr.61. ISSN 1712-5278. S2CID 234032655.
  8. ^ Chiriac, Alexandra (2021-01-01). "Review of Irena R. Makaryk, 'April in Paris: Theatricality, Modernism, and Politics at the 1925 Art Deco Expo' (University of Toronto Press 2018)". ARTMargins Online.
  9. ^ Voloshyna, Iryna. "INTERVIEW: Virlana Tkacz on "GAZ," Koliadnyky and Mars". The Ukrainian Weekly. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  10. ^ Blacker, Uilleam (2019). "Review of MODERNISM IN KYIV: JUBILANT EXPERIMENTATION". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 36 (1/2): 220–224. ISSN 0363-5570. JSTOR 48585271.