Irene (Irena) Rima Makaryk is a Canadian English-language academic, author, and distinguished professor at the
University of Ottawa
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.
Education
Makaryk earned a bachelor of arts degree (1974), a master of arts degree (1975), and a PhD (1980), all from the
University of Toronto
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.
Career
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.
She is also the vice-dean of the faculty of graduate and postdoctoral studies.
Her research focusses on theatrical modernism, Shakespeare, Ukrainian Shakespeare, the arts in times of war, Soviet theatre,
Les Kurbas
Oleksandr-Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas (; 24 February 1887 – 30 November 1937), was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian movie and theater director. He is considered by many to be the most important Ukrainian theater director of the 20th century. He formed, ...
, cultural history, and Arctic diaries.
Makaryk appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Company's
''Ideas'' (radio show) on November 3, 2021.
Selected publications
* Irena Makaryk and Diana Brydon (editors), ''Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere,''
University of Toronto Press
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The press originally printed only examination books and the university calendar. Its first s ...
, 2002
* Irena Makaryk, ''April in Paris: Theatricality, Modernism, and Politics at the 1925 Art Deco Expo''.
University of Toronto Press
The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press. Although it was founded in 1901, the press did not actually publish any books until 1911.
The press originally printed only examination books and the university calendar. Its first s ...
, 2018
* Irena Makaryk, ''Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms,''
University of Toronto Press
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The press originally printed only examination books and the university calendar. Its first s ...
, 1993
* Irena R. Makaryk, ''About the Harrowing of Hell: A Seventeenth-Century Ukrainian Play in Its European Context,'' Dovehouse Editions 1989
* Irena Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz,
Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation',
University of Toronto Press
The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press. Although it was founded in 1901, the press did not actually publish any books until 1911.
The press originally printed only examination books and the university calendar. Its first s ...
, 2010
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of Ottawa
21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
Shakespearean scholars
University of Toronto alumni
Canadian women non-fiction writers