Fonds MSS 356 - Myroslav Shkandrij fonds

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Myroslav Shkandrij fonds

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CA UMASC MSS 356

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1.57 m of textual records, 1100 slides, 147 photographs, 19 negatives.

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(1950 -)

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Dr. Myroslav Shkandrij was a Professor in the Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba. He was born on March 17, 1950, in Leeds, England. Shkandrij studied at Cambridge University (B.A.,1972) and then at the University of Toronto, where he studied with George Luckyj and received an M.A. (1973) and a Ph.D. (1980). He taught at the Universities of Calgary and Ottawa during the 1980s. Between 1977 and 1987, he was on the editorial board of Diyaloh, a journal of the young generation of Ukrainians in the West, and he was active in the Ukrainian Canadian University Students Union (SUSK). The journal was published three times per year. The Ukrainian Student Group smuggled issues of their publication to Ukraine during the Cold War. During those years, Shkandrij served on the Committee in Defense of Soviet Political Prisoners and many other Ukrainian institutions and organizations in Canada (CIUS, KUK).

In 2001, Shkandrij organized the first North American exhibition devoted to the Ukrainian Avant-Garde art, “Phenomenon of the Ukrainian Avant-Garde”. It covered the period from the 1910s through 1930s. As a curator for the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and in cooperation with the National Art Museum of Ukraine, he introduced to Winnipeg the Ukrainian Avant-Garde art hidden during the Stalinist years. Artists such as David Burliuk, Mykhailo Boichuk, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Archipenko and others represented modern trends in art such as Cubism, Futurism or Constructivism.Shkandrij researched the life and art of David Burliuk and organized another exhibit for the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2008 titled “Futurism and After: David Burliuk, 1882-1967.”

Dr. Shkandrij is the author of more than 50 journal articles and book chapters as well as 6 major monographs: Modernists, Marxists and the Nation: The Ukrainian Literary Discussion of the 1920s (Edmonton: CIUS Press, University of Alberta, 1992); Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire From Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times (McGill-Queen's UP, 2001); Jews in Ukrainian Literature: Representation and Identity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009); Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology and Literature, 1929-1956 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015); Avant-garde Art in Ukraine: Contested Memory, 1910-1930 (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019); and Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917-2017: Flashpoints in History and Contemporary Memory Wars (New York: Routledge, 2019). He has also translated several books from Ukrainian into English and edited or co-edited 6 volumes.

Dr. Shkandrij is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and the Canadian Association of Slavists. He taught in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba from 1987 until 2019, and served as Head or Acting Head of the Department from 1990 to 2009. In 2010, he received the Faculty of Arts Professor of the Year award. Upon his retirement in 2019, he was named Professor Emeritus.

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The fonds was donated to University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections by Dr. Shkandrij in 2002 and 2011.

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The first accession contains issues of the underground student journal "Diyaloh," correspondence, minutes of meetings, files and notes pertaining to the journals "Diyaloh" and "Meta." It contains information about Leonid Plyushch's visit to Canada in 1976 and the Grigorenko meeting in Toronto in May 1978.

The second accession consists of Shkandrij’s correspondence and general research material; material pertaining to the Ukrainian Avant-Garde art (David Burliuk, Mykhailo Boichuk ); an article and a research material regarding Winnipeg Ukrainian artist Roman Kowal; Shkandrij's unpublished manuscript “Monumentalists: Mykhailo Boichuk,” and a Photograph Collection (photographs and slides of the Ukrainian Avant-Garde art, publications, Ukrainian architecture, and Roman Kowal'sart).

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Initials were removed from the minutes of meetings at the request of the participants.

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Finding aid for A2002-061 was created and encoded by Vladimira Zvonik (October 2003). Revision History: July 26, 2005 - Mss 356, (A.02-61) converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15).

Finding aid for A2011-092 was created and encoded by Vladimira Zvonik (2012).

Revised by N. Courrier (September 2019).

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