Larissa Zaleska Onyshkevych

Larissa Maria Lubov Zaleska Onyshkevych (born 12 May 1935) is a scholar of modern Ukrainian drama and literature.

[1][2][3] Most of her publications are on modern and postmodern Ukrainian drama, that she discusses in a comparative literature approach.

She served as President of Princeton Research Forum and then President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (USA) She received many awards and grants (NDEA IV, IREX, ACLS, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar grant to teach in Ukraine.

Under “Texts” she discusses modernism, postmodernism, existentialism, issues of identity, and themes of historical upheavals as they are reflected in specific plays.

In Section II, fourteen Ukrainian playwrights and their plays (written between 1895 and 2002) are discussed in comparative aspects to other Western dramatic works.