Alex Averbuch

Alex Averbuch is a scholar, poet, and translator. Currently he is the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta. He earned his PhD in Slavic and Jewish studies at the University of Toronto with a dissertation on the history of the genre of solicitory poetry in Ukrainian, Russian, and Hebrew. Averbuch’s research explores commodity culture; gender and critical race theory; epistolarity; photography; theatricality and performance; translation; and creative writing in foreign language pedagogy. He is the author of three books of poetry and an array of literary translations between Hebrew, Ukrainian, Russian, and English. His latest book Zhydivs’kyi korol' (The Jewish King) was a Shevchenko National Prize finalist.

Session Two | 10:15AM, May 15, 2023

“Propaganda, Censorship, Subversion: Visual Rhetoric in the Correspondence of Ukrainian Ostarbeiters.”