Jessica M. Zychowicz PhD, University of Michigan; BA, University of California Berkeley

Peer-Reviewed Books

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Monograph. Manuscript for my second monograph with University of Toronto Press is under contract and in progress.

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Anthology. Freedom Taking Place: War, Women and Culture at the Intersection of Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus.

                    Vernon Press, 2023. Link here

                    Jessica Zychowicz, Editor and contributing author

                    Oksana Briukhovetska (Secondary Archive.org), Magdalena Furmanik-Kowalska (The Polish       

                    Institute of World Art Studies, Poland; Fundacja Art & Modern), Małgorzata Jankowska (Academy of Fine Arts

                    Gdańsk, Poland), Olga Plakhotnik (Ethnology Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Greifswald

                    University, Germany), Maria Mayerchyk (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine),

                    Svitlana Biedarieva (Kennan Institute Wilson Center; George Washington University),

                    Kateryna Iakovlenko (Suspilne.media; University College London SSEES),

                    Joanna Dobkowska-Kubacka (University of Łódź, Poland), Veranika Laputska (Graduate School for Social

                    Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland),

                    Antonina Stebur (Spaika.media; The International Coalition of Cultural Workers Against the War in Ukraine;

                    Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany; European College of Liberal Art, Minsk, Belarus),

                    Nataliya Tchermalykh (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Jessica Zychowicz (Fulbright Ukraine; Institute of

                    International Education Kyiv office, Ukraine), Agnieszka Graff (American Studies Center, University of Warsaw)                      Natallia Paulovich (Independent Researcher, Warsaw, Poland), Iryna Shuvalova (University of Oslo).

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Monograph. Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine. Univ. of Toronto Press, 2020.

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                       New Edition in Poland, Kobiety zbędne: Sztuka, feminizm, i rewolucja w Ukrainie XXI wieku,

                                    Museum of Modern Art Warsaw & Karakter Press, 2024.

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                       New Ukrainian Edition, forthcoming 2024 on ArtHuss Press with Maidan Museum.

   

                        ASEEES Scholar Spotlight Interview. On researching Ukraine and gender.

                                 On Receiving the ASEEES Pritsak Prize Honorable Mention

                                & the Scaglione Prize MLA: Modern Languages Association Honorable Mention.

                                ASEEES: Association for Slavic, E European, Eurasian Studies. 2021, here. ​

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                         Interview for New Books Network, by Steven Seegel. October 16, 2020. Link to PODCAST.

                         For more interviews and discussion about this book, please see under "talks & presentations."

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           Book Awards for Superfluous Women:

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                      - Recipient of the MLA: Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for

                               Slavic Studies Honorable Mention 2021, here.  (This book is the first title pertaining to Ukraine

                               to win this award in any category since the prize began in 1996)

                     - Recipient of the American Association of Ukrainian Studies Prize, 2022, here.

                     - Recipient of the ASEEES: Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

                               Harvard Omelijan Pritsak Prize for Ukrainian Studies Honorable Mention 2021, here. 

                     - Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada book grant, 2019.                  

                     - Canadian Society of Ukrainian Studies book grant, 2019.

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           Reviews of Superfluous Women: 

                                

                      - Reviewed by Sasha Razor for the Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian, and Russian 

                         Art and Architecture (SHERA): Spring 2021. here.

                      - Reviewed by Mayhill C. Fowler for The Russian Review 80 (4) October 2021. here.

                      - Reviewed by Halyna Kohut for Die Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte [Journal of Art History] (85) 2022: 569-73. here

                      - Reviewed by Kateryna Iakovlenko for LB.ua: Дорослий погляд на світ. Fall 2021. here.

                      - Reviewed by Emily Channell-Justice for H-Ukraine Reviews. here.

                      - Reviewed by Halya Vrublevska for KRYTYKA Journal November 2021. here.            

                      - Reviewed by Vira Sachenko for KULT (Issue 64). International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture,

                        University of Giessen, Germany. December 2021. here.

                      - Reviewed by Irina Genova at New Bulgarian University, Institute of Art Studies, Sofia for

                        ASPASIA: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women's

                        and Gender History. Vol. 15 (1), 2021, pp. 205-207. here.

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My monograph Superfluous Women: Feminism, Art, and Revolution in 21st c. Ukraine (U-Toronto Press, 2020) explores the gender politics and new forms within emerging Ukrainian artists' distinctive visual citations of past canonical works in 19-20th century Slavic and Soviet literature, painting, and photography. Analyzing firsthand interviews, visual art, literature, official speeches and other material, I demonstrate how several contemporary collectives in Kyiv have put the human body at the center of wide transformations taking place within and across two revolutions in the 2000s. The controversial term "feminism" is partially a product of its difficult translation across cultural contexts, especially the old Cold War divides as they are challenged and renegotiated by intellectuals and activists transatlantically. While individuals and groups in my study argue for a range of causes tied to gender and to sexuality, my project’s central concern is the body as an ideological site which evolves through social interactions taking place in public aesthetic exchanges, and how image and text come to acquire historical meaning.

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I trace points of connection between several artists' works past and present who are experimenting with the grammar of postcommunism; in particular, the legacies of the early European avant-gardes, socialist realism, and postmodernism wherever these discourses come to bear upon concepts of censorship, autonomy, and progress. I employ critical theories of democracy with methods from anthropology and new media in order to trace a narrative that bridges prior local and global dialogues with new perspectives in transnational civic vocabularies on gender and human rights.

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The book was most recently reviewed by Sasha Razor (UCLA) for the Society of Historians of Eastern Europe, Eurasian, and Russian Art & Architecture; the book review can be accessed here.

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Peer-Reviewed Research Articles and Chapters 

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Chapter.  Art in Ukraine: Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance. Ed. Svitlana Biedarieva.

                 Preface by Vitaly Chernetsky. Routledge Research in Art and Politics Series: New York, 2024. ​

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Article. Zły mit. Obrazowanie międzypokoleniowych przeżyć rewolucji i wojny w Ukrainie przed 2022,

             przeł. Aleksandra Paszkowska. Tomasz Szerszen, Ed. Wydanie specjalne.

             Ukraińskie Pejzaże Rekonstrukcje: Wojna, Sztuka, Dekolonizacja. Konteksty. Vol. 343, no. 4: 2024.

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Chapter. "From 'The Woman Question' and 'The Ukraine Question' to Self-Determination:

                  Revisiting 1920s-30s Mass Politics, Revolution, and War in the Twenty-First Century."

                  In Art and Self-Determination: A Reader upon the international exhibition

                  100 Years of Self-Determination: A Global Perspective. Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA): Dublin, 2023.

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Chapter. "Anti-discrimination, Anti-disinformation, and Human Rights in Early Civic Documentations

                 of the Ukraine-Russia War.” In Post-Soviet Women: New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment,

                 edited by Ann-Mari Sätre, Yulia Gradskova and Vladislava Vladimirova. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

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Chapter. "A New Dawn at the Centennial of Suffragism: Artistic Representation in Transeuropean and Transatlantic Kyiv."

                In Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991-2021.

                Ed. Svitlana Biedarieva. New York and Berlin: Columbia University Press with Ibidem-Verlag, 2021.

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Chapter. J. Zychowicz and N. Tschermalykh. "FEMEN and Pussy Riot's Global Trajectories in Law, Society, and Culture" in

                The Routledge Handbook to Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia, 

                Eds. Janet E. Johnson, Mara Lazda, Katalin Fabian. Routledge Press, 2021.

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                 Award recipient of the 2022 AWSS Heldt Prize

                 in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Women’s and Gender Studies, Link here.

                Review:  "This timely and thorough reference collection is an essential guide to gender studies scholarship

                on postcommunist Europe and Eurasia. The editors gathered the highest caliber experts in the field to         

                explicate the debates on gender in this diverse region, and to examine key topics, from methodology, to 

                ideology, to intriguing empirical research on women’s organizing, everyday life, and gender-related policy   

                before, during and after communist party rule. This engaging and comprehensive volume will be indispensable

                for anyone undertaking research on gender in the region, whether a novice or an advanced scholar long 

                steeped in the subject. Rather than applying an 'add women and stir' approach, the contributors examine

                the political, economic, social, cultural and legal systems that create and enforce gender norms, revealing 

                the ineluctable centrality of gender to our understanding of politics." 

                                          - Valerie Sperling, Professor of Political Science, Clark University, author of Sex, Politics and Putin.  

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Co-Editor, Special Issue of East West Journal of Ukrainian Studies Vol. 9 No. 2, 2022:

                  "Odesa's Many Frontiers" University of Alberta.

                    Available here: East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (ewjus.com)

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Chapter. " 'As Never Before': The Body and Revolution in the Ukrainian Worlds of Natalka Husar and

                 Lesia Khomenko" in UKRAINIAN CANADIAN VISUAL ART, Eds. John-Paul Himka and

                 Kalyna Somchynsky. Edmonton, U-Alberta: Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada, 2022. Link. PDF. 

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Article. "Navigating the Public Sphere in an Era of Misinformation." Eds. Victoria Donovan, James Rann,

               Darya Tsymbalyuk. Slavic Studies Collection - Slavic Studies Goes Public: Who? What? Why? Where? When?
               Modern Languages Open. University of Liverpool. July 14 2021.

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Article. Co-authored with Olesya Khromeychuk, Tamara Martsenyuk, and Emily Channell-Justice.

              “Ukraine (finally) Treats Women's Activism Seriously.” The Ukrainian Quarterly Summer 2021 (2): 47-54.

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Curatorial Text. Artist/images: Nikita Kadan, Curator/text: Jessica Zychowicz

                   "Art in a Conflicted World" hosted by Schloss Wiepersdorf Cultural Foundation

                   with German Federal Foreign Office. Publication on DCV Books, Berlin, 2021.

                   Link to virtual artist-curator talk.

Article.   "Ukraine Hosts Most Successful LGBTQ Event in the Nation's History But New Challenges Appear."

                 Kennan Institute. August 2, 2019.

 

Review.  "A Dans Macabre in the Time of the Pandemic." Review of the Exhibit At the Front Line: Ukrainian Art, 2013-2019. 

                 in IMAGINATIONS: Revue D'études interculturelles de L'Image / Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.

                 January 2021.

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Interview for the Fearless Project, by Dr. Tamara Martsenyuk (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) at Gender in Detail

                  [Гендер в деталях], June 17, 2020. 

Article. Кутуєв П.В., Єнін М., Зихович Дж., Куровська Г.В. «Соціологічна наукова діяльність та стратегії вибору

               дослідницької темі у фокусі теоретичних рефлексій.» ВІСНИК: Національного технічного університету 

               України Київський політехнічний інститут імені Ігоря Сікорського. Політологія. Соціологія. Право.

               3(47). 2020: 6-19.

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Article. "To Walk The Line While (Re)Drawing It: Aesthetic-Political Transformation in Formerly Occupied East Ukraine."
               Donbas Studies Project. IZOLATSIYA, August 2020.

                           

Chapter. "Against Form: Composition and Medium in the Works of Bruno Schulz and Nikita Kadan."

                (Un)Named / (Не)означені, by the Artist Nikita Kadan. Curator Sofia Dyak. Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine,

                November, 2017; The Museum of Odessa Modern Art, November 2018; National Art Museum of Ukraine, 2019.

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Article. "We Outsiders: Virginia Woolf and Feminism in Global Perspective." KORYDOR, February 5, 2019.

              Ми, Аутсайдерки: Вірджинія Вулф і фемінізм у глобалній перспективі.

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Chapter. The Idea of the Avant Garde - And What It Means Today Vol. 2. Ed. Marc James Léger. University of Chicago Press

              and Intellect Books.    Vol 2 Exhibition & Seminar at NEME Gallery 2019.   Download Vol. 1.

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Chapter. Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to the Blasphemous.

             Eds. Beth Holmgren, Yana Hashamova, Mark Lipovetsky. Routledge Press, 2016.

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Forward to Shifting Landscapes: Ukrainian Art Between Revolution and War. Natalyia Tchermalykh, Ed. Kyiv, New York, 

             Montréal: Rodovid Books; Galerie Pangée, 2015.

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Article. "Performing Protest: Femen, Nation, and the Marketing of Resistance."

              Journal of Ukrainian Politics and Society (1), April 2015.

Article. "Pussy Riot Arrest at Sochi Reinforces their Cult Status." The Conversation. February 18, 2014.

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Article. Two Bad Words: Femen and Feminism in Independent Ukraine. The Anthropology of East Europe Review,

             I-U Bloomington: Fall 2011.

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Book Reviews in peer-reviewed academic journals

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Book Review. The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, by Marci Shore. Yale University Press, 2017;

             in EWJUS: East West Journal for Ukrainian Studies: Vol. VI, No. 2 (2019).

Book Review. "Dilemma and Knowledge, A Review of Reimagining Utopias: Theory and Method for Educational

             Research in Post-Socialist Contexts."

             by Iveta Silova, Noah W. Sobe, Alla Korzh and Serhiy Kovalchuk (Eds.) Sense Publishers 2017;

             in Comparative International Education Journal (CIE) 2018.

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Book Review. Poor But Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West, by Agata Pyzik, Croyden UK: Zero Books, 2014;

             in Slavic & East European Journal. American Association of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages, Feb 2015.

 

Book Review. Democracy Assistance from the Third Wave: Polish Engagement in Belarus and Ukraine, by Paulina

             Pospieszna, U of Pitt Press, 2014; in H-Net Reviews, 2016.