Andryczyk Mark

Mark Andryczyk, born in 1969 in Philadelphia, into a family of Ukrainian emigres. He graduated from Drexel University in 1992 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. In 2005, he received a PhD in Ukrainian Literature from the University of Toronto.

Andryczyk is the administrator of the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, where he also teaches courses in Ukrainian literature and culture at the university’s Slavic Department.

His monograph The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2012. A Ukrainian edition of that monograph, Intelektual iak heroi ukrains’koi prozy 90-kh rokiv XX stolittia was published by Piramida in 2014. Andryczyk is editor and compiler of The White Chalk of Days, the Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology (Academic Studies Press, 2017), which features, among others, his translations of literary works by Hrytsko Chubai, Oleh Lysheha, Marjana Savka, Andriy Bondar, Viktor Neborak, Yuri Andrukhovych, Serhiy Zhadan, Taras Prokhasko, Ivan Malkovych, Vasyl Gabor, Yuri Vynnychuk, Oleksandr Boichenko and Lyuba Yakimchuk. He translated eleven essays by Yuri Andrukhovych for the publication My Final Territory: Selected Essays (University of Toronto Press, 2018). Also a musician, Andryczyk, under the name Yeezhak, he has recorded three studio albums in Ukraine (1996, 1998, 2006) and has performed a series of concerts in support of these recordings.

The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction (University of Toronto Press, 2012).

Інтелектуал як герой в українській прозі 90-х років XX століття / З англійської переклав Ігор Андрущенко. – Львів: ЛА "Піраміда", 2014.

The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology / Edited and Compiled by Mark Andrycyzk (Academic Studies Press, 2017).

My Final Territory: Selected Essays. Yuri Andrukhovych / Translated by Mark Andryczyk and Michael M. Naydan (University of Toronto Press, 2018).