Iryna MYKHAILOVA

EMPLOYMENT

2021 - Present:    Postdoctoral Fellow, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Programme – Global Fellowship

                           Secondment (2021): Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

                           Outgoing Phase (2022 - 2024): Department of History, Harvard University

                           Incoming Phase (2024 - 2025): Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

2017 - 2019:       Postdoctoral Fellow, Lichtenberg-Kolleg – Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Göttingen

2016 - 2017:       Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of English Philology and Philosophy of Language, Kyiv National Linguistic University

2014 - 2015:       Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, State University of New York at Albany

2012 - 2016:       Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Kyiv National Linguistic University

EDUCATION

2008 - 2012:      Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (Ph.D.) 2012, Philosophy

2007 - 2008:      Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Philosophy, Master of Arts 2008, Philosophy

2003 - 2007:      Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts 2007, Philosophy

2011 - 2016:      Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of Continuing Education, Master of Arts 2016, Law

PUBLICATIONS

Book

The Italian Renaissance in the Soviet Union – Historiography and Cultural Reception, 1920s-1980s. Under contract with Brill. Anticipated submission date: June 2026.

Historiographies Lost and Reclaimed: Scholarship on the Italian Renaissance in Central and Eastern Europe. Edited volume (book proposal currently under review at Brill).

Book Chapters

“‘The Last Word of the Renaissance Civilization’: Francesco Guicciardini in Soviet Historiography.” Invited contribution to Approaches to Historiography III, Debrecen University Press. Anticipated submission date: April 2025.

 “Paul Oskar Kristeller: A Critic of Étienne Gilson?” In L’institution philosophique française et la Renaissance: l’époque d’Étienne Gilson, forthcoming 2025, Brill Series in Philosophical Historiographies.

“Italian Renaissance in Postwar America: Paul Oskar Kristeller and Felix Gilbert.” In The Dissident Renaissance: Rewriting the History of Early Modern Philosophy as Political Practice, 167-186. Brill Series in Philosophical Historiographies, 2025.

“D’Holbach’s Legacy in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.” In The Great Protector of Wits. D’Holbach and His Time, edited by Laura Nicol., 302–332. Brill, 2022.

“Defending Objectivity: Paul Oskar Kristeller and the Controversy over Historical Knowledge in the United States.” In Dynamics of Emigration, Epistemic Repercussions. .migr. Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the Age of Extremes, edited by Stephan Berger and Philipp Müller, 94–108. Berghahn Books, 2022.

“…it is incumbent on me to tell the facts as I know them’: on the Reminiscences of Paul Oskar Kristeller.” In Zwischenwelt. Lebensspuren: Autobiografik von Exil, Widerstand, Verfolgung und Lagererfahrung, edited by Irene Nawrocka and Marianne Windsperger, 428–442. Drava, 2020.

“Принцип coincidentia oppositorum Николая Кузанского и флорентийский неоплатонизм” [“The coincidentia oppositorum of Nicholas of Cusa and Florentine Neo-Platonism”]. In Coincidentia Oppositorum: от Николая Кузанского к Николаю Бердяеву, edited by O. Dushin, 337–349. Saint-Petersburg: Aletheia, 2010.

Articles

“The Italian Renaissance and the Soviet Socialist Culture in the 1920s.” Invited contribution to History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Anticipated submission date: September 2025.

“Iter Russicum: On Paul Oskar Kristeller’s Only Trip to the Soviet Union.” Under review, The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.

“Paul Oskar Kristeller und Karl Jaspers: ein Dialog, der nie stattgefunden hat.” Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 62 (2015), 337–349.

“Florentine Neo-Platonism between Humanism and Philosophy: Variety of Interpretations.” Messenger of Kyiv National Linguistic University: History. Economics. Philosophy 18 (2013), 170–178.

“Ідеї апофатичної теології та божественної ієрархії Діонісія Ареопагіта в філософії ренесансного неоплатонізму XV ст.” [“The Notions of Apophatic Theology and Divine Hierarchy of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the 15th-century Renaissance Neo-Platonism”]. Вісник Київського національного університету: Філософія. Політологія 2, no. 112 (2013), 15–19.

“Ренесансний антропологізм Марсіліо Фічіно” [“Renaissance Anthropology of Marsilio Ficino”]. Філософські проблеми гуманітарних наук 16–17 (2010), 219–223.

“Гуманістична полеміка між Джованні Піко делла Мірандола та Ермолао Барбаро: пошук істини чи змагання в красномовстві?” [“Humanistic Polemics of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola against Hermolao Barbaro: Searching for Truth or Competition in Eloquence?”]. Гілея: науковий вісник 36 (2010), 273–279.

“Християнський неоплатонізм Ніколая Кузанського та Джованні Піко делла Мірандола: точки перетину” [“Christian Neo-Platonism of Nicholas of Cusa and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Points of Intersection”]. Вісник Національного Авіаційного Університету. Серія: Філософія. Культурологія 3, no. 1 (2009), 115–118.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Kyiv National Linguistic University – Independently Designed and Taught Courses (2012 – 2017)

Introductory Courses for Undergraduate Students:

Philosophy (2012-2017)

Logic (2012-2014)

Globalization and Culture (2016-2017)

Religious Studies (2016)

Bioethics (2016)

Critical Thinking (2015)

Idea of Humanism in European Culture (2013)

Upper-Level Courses for Graduate Students:

Philosophy of Education (2015)

Methodological Problems of the Humanities (2013)

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv – Teaching Assistant (2009 – 2010)

History of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy • Principal Instructor: Prof. Oleksandra Aleksandrova

GRANTS & AWARDS

2021 - 2024: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Global Fellowship, sponsored by the European Commission

2017 - 2019: Moritz Stern Fellowship in Modern Jewish Studies: Cultural, Intellectual and Literary History, sponsored by the University of Göttingen

2014 - 2015: Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Department of History at the State University of New York at Albany, sponsored by the United State          Department of State 

2003 - 2011: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 100% tuition fee waiver and monthly scholarship

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED LECTURES (selection)
 

“Traveling Through the Pages of Iter: Paul Oskar Kristeller’s Trip to the Socialist Bloc Countries,” Workshop “Historiographies Lost and Reclaimed: Scholarship on the Italian Renaissance in Central and Eastern Europe,” Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 10-11 February 2025
 
“The Image of the Medici in Russian Historical Scholarship and Fiction,” Workshop – The Invention of the Medici: Historiographies, Histories, and Stories (1781-2024), The Medici Archive Project, Florence, 23-24 January 2025

“Women Historians of Medieval and Early Modern Europe in the Soviet Union,” International Society for Intellectual History, Seminar Series: Women in Intellectual History, online, 8 January 2025

 “‘The Last Word of the Renaissance Civilization’: Francesco Guicciardini in Soviet Historiography,” International Conference in Historiography, Debrecen, 22 November 2024
 
“From Renaissance Italy to the GULAG: Matvej Goukowskij and the Soviet Studies on the Italian Renaissance, 1920s-1950s,” Kolloquium der Osteuropäischen Geschichte, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 18 November 2024

"On Soviet Federalism" at the workshop "The Federal Union: Futures and Pasts of a Shared European Heritage 1515-2025", Fiesole, 16-17 September 2024

"The Italian Renaissance and the Soviet Socialist Culture in the 1920s" at the conference "Ideas of Europe and Images of Russia: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present", XV Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of the Idea of Europe, in collaboration with the East Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 19-21 June 2024

"Harvard Astronomer and Exile Philosophers: On Harlow Shapley's Humanitarian Efforts," panel discussion "Refugees (Not) Welcome: European Exile Scholars at Harvard in the 1930s and 1940s" (Harvard University, 21 March 2024)

"The Italian Renaissance and the Soviet Ideology, 1930s-1940s," Book Chapter Draft, Russian and Eastern European History Workshop (Harvard University, 20 February 2024)

"The Study of the Italian Renaissance in Imperial Russia: Scholars, Methods, Problems", an international conference "Transnational Renaissance: The Making of a Modern Idea Between Germany and Italy (Villa Vigoni, Italy, 20-24 November 2023)

"Is Christian Philosophy Possible? Etienne Gilson and Paul Oskar Kristeller on the Italian Renaissance", invited lecture hosted by the Abigail Adams Institute and Harvard University, 6 November 2023

"From Marburg to Harvard: Metaphysical Odyssey of Erich Frank (1883-1949)", invited lecture at the University at Albany, 20 October 2023

“Two Renaissance Men, Two Renaissances: Etienne Gilson and Paul Oskar Kristeller,” international conference “L’institution philosophique française et la Renaissance: l’époque d’Étienne Gilson,” Université Paris, 8 October 2021
 
“Writing or Re-Writing the History of the Renaissance? German Exile Historians and Post-war American Ideology,” international workshop “The Dissident Renaissance: Rewriting the History of Early Modern Philosophy as Political Practice,” University of Siegen, 4 March 2020
 
“Defending Objectivity: Paul Oskar Kristeller and the Controversy on the Historical Knowledge in the United States,” international workshop “Dynamics of Emigration, Epistemic Repercussions. Émigré Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the Age of Extremes,” Institut für Soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 20 September 2019
 
“…weil ich Repräsentantin Deutschlands in die Welt geschickt wurde”: Elisabeth Feist Hirsch’s Journey to the New World”, at the international workshop „The Renaissance in Exile: German Renaissance Scholars in Europe and North America (1933-2000) at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 16 May, 2019
 
“D’Holbach’s Legacy in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union” at the international conference “The great protector of wits. D’Holbach 1789-2019”, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 11 May, 2019
 
“Writing History in Exile: German Scholars of Renaissance in the United States”, colloquium at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 14 November, 2018
 
“Gershom Scholem and Ernst Cassirer on Myth and Symbolism” at the XIth Congress of the European Association of Jewish Studies, Krakow, 18 July 2018
 
 “…it is incumbent on me to tell the facts as I know them”: on Reminiscences of Paul Oskar Kristeller” at the conference “Autobiographical Writing and Exile, Resistance, Persecution and Camp Experiences”, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 24 November 2017

“Discovering the U.S. Intellectual History: Life and Legacy of Paul Oskar Kristeller”, colloquium in the Department of History at the State University of New York at Albany, USA, 5 May 2015

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
 
International Workshop “Historiographies Lost and Reclaimed: Scholarship on the Italian Renaissance in Central and Eastern Europe,” Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 10–11 February 2025

Panel Discussion “Refugees (Not) Welcome: European Exile Scholars at Harvard in the 1930s and 1940s,” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 21 March 2024 (co-organized with Prof. Dr. Peter Gordon)

Panel Discussion “MSCA Fellows Outside Europe,” Marie Curie Alumni Association Annual Conference 2024, Milan, Italy, 15 March 2024 (co-organizer with Dr. Pablo Emiliano Tomatis and moderator)

International Workshop “The Renaissance in Exile: German Renaissance Scholars in Europe and North America (1933–2000),” Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 16–17 May 2019 (co-organized with Prof. Dr. Martin van Gelderen).

FOREIGN LANGUAGES
 
 
Russian:  Native
Ukrainian: Native
English: Full working proficiency
Italian: Limited working proficiency 
German: Limited working proficiency
French:  Basic reading proficiency

Latin: Advanced reading proficiency
Ancient Greek: Basic Reading proficiency
 
 
COMMUNITY SERVICE
 
 
2024 - Present: Board Member, North America Chapter, Marie Curie Alumni Association

2023 - 2024: Chair of the North America Chapter, Marie Curie Alumni Association

2024: Invited Speaker and Co-Organizer, Information Session on European Research Funding (MSCA and ERC), Harvard Medical School (co-organized with the EURAXESS North America, Boston, MA, USA)

2023: Invited Speaker, Ninth Annual Meeting of the European Scientific Diasporas in North America, EURAXESS North America, Washington, DC, USA

2023: Exhibitor and Presenter, NAFSA 2023 Annual Conference & Expo (European Commission DG EAC Team, Washington DC, USA)

2023: USA East Coast Coordinator, North America Chapter, Marie Curie Alumni Association 

2016 - 2017: Co-trainer, British Council Ukraine Project Researcher Connect (professional development of young scholars)
 

MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

Member of the Renaissance Society of America

Member of the Ukrainian Fulbright Circle
 
 
EVALUATOR AND PEER REVIEWER
 
2023:                   EURIZON Fellowship Programme

2017 - Present:     Fulbright Program in Ukraine
 

OTHER ACTIVITIES AND SKILLS
 

Basic knowledge of Digital Humanities methods and tools for historical research: XML, HTML, Python; Gephi and Palladio software.

Certificate of Completion, Inclusive STEM Teaching Project (edX, 2023)