The essay collection Tschižewskij, Чижевський, Чижевский, Chyzhevs’kyi, Čyževskyj. The Multiple Receptions of a Ukrainian Scholar in European Contexts, co-edited by Susanne Frank (Research Area 1: "Competing Communities") and Galina Babak (Early Career Fellow in Research Area 1, 2022 and 2023), is now available via open access. Originating from a workshop held at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in December 2022, the volume is dedicated to the pioneering Ukrainian-German scholar Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyi.

Forced to leave Ukrainian lands in 1921 under threat of persecution as a Menshevik, Chyzhevs’kyi spent most of his life in exile. He produced a substantial body of work on literature, culture and philosophy spanning from the sixteenth to the twentieth century and can be considered the founder of a comparative approach to Slavic literatures within a broader European framework. His teaching and research in Prague, Halle, Harvard and Heidelberg, along with his simultaneous engagement in multiple scholarly communities, make him a key figure for understanding the transnational history of literary theory – particularly Formalism – and its circulation between East and West across shifting political and intellectual borders.

Susanne Frank and Galina Babak, eds. Tschižewskij, Чижевський, Чижевский, Chyzhevs’kyi, Čyževskyj. The Multiple Receptions of a Ukrainian Scholar in European Contexts. Siedlce: Instytut Kultury Regionalnej i Badań Literackich im. Franciszka Karpińskiego (IKRiBL), 2026. https://doi.org/10.32017/978-83-68206-42-5. (Open Access)