Iryna MYKHAILOVA

Education

10/2008 – 09/2011: Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (Ph.D., History of Philosophy), Faculty of Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
 
09/2007 – 06/2008: Master of Arts, Faculty of Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, with honors
 
09/2003 – 06/2007: Bachelor of Arts, Faculty of Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, with honors

09/2011 – 04/2016: Specialist in Law/Institute of Continuing Education of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Teaching and Research

11/2021 - present: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship – Global Fellowship (Ca' Foscari University of Venice; Harvard University)

Research Project: “Humanism behind the Iron Curtain: Italian Renaissance Studies in the Soviet Union” (101023490 – RENAISSANCE USSR)
 
10/2017 – 7/2019: Early Career Fellowship, Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the University of Göttingen, Moritz Stern Fellowship in Modern Jewish Studies: Cultural, Intellectual and Literary History

Research Project: “Humanism in Exile: German Renaissance Scholars in the United States”
 
10/2016 – 8/2017: Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Professor O. M. Morokhovsky Department of English Philology and Philosophy of Language, Kyiv National Linguistic University/Ukraine
 
8/2014 – 5/2015: Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of History at the State University of New York at Albany, USA

Research project: “Discovering the U.S. Intellectual History: Life and Legacy of Paul Oskar Kristeller”
 
9/2012 – 9/2015: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Kyiv National Linguistic University/Ukraine
 
10/2008 – 1/2010: Teaching Assistant at the Department of Philosophy, The Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Organization of Scientific Meetings

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

21 March 2024: Panel discussion "Refugees (Not) Welcome: European Exile Scholars at Harvard in the 1930s and 1940s" at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (Recording available)

15 March 2024 - Panel Discussion "MSCA Fellows Outside Europe" at the Marie Curie Alumni Association Annual Conference 2024 in Milan, Italy (co-organizer)

16-17 May 2019: 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 (co-organized with Prof. Dr. Martin van Gelderen).

PUBLICATIONS
 
 
Monograph
 

The Italian Renaissance in the Soviet Union – Historiography and Cultural Reception, 1920s-1980s (under contract with Brill, manuscript in progress)

Book Chapters

“‘The Last Word of the Renaissance Civilization’: Francesco Guicciardini in Soviet Historiography,” Invited contribution (chapter) to the collective monograph 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” (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. Laura Nicolì, Ed. (Brill, 2022): 302-332.
 
“Defending Objectivity: Paul Oskar Kristeller and the Controversy over the Historical Knowledge in the United States,” in Dynamics of Emigration, Epistemic Repercussions. Émigré Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the Age of Extremes. Stephan Berger and Philipp Müller, Eds.  (Berghahn Books, 2022): 94-108.
 
“…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. Nawrocka, Irene and Marianne Windsperger, Hrsg. (Drava, 2020): 428-442.
 
“Принцип coincidentia oppositorum Николая Кузанского и флорентийский неоплатонизм” in Coincidentia Oppositorum от Николая Кузанского к Николаю Бердяеву. O. Dushin, Ed. (Saint-Petersburg: Aletheia, 2010): 337-349 (“The Principle coincidentia oppositorum of Nicholas of Cusa and Florentine Neo-Platonism,” in Coincidentia Oppositorum from Nicholas of Cusa to Nicholay Berdyaev)

Articles

 
“The Italian Renaissance and the Soviet Socialist Culture in the 1920s,” Invited contribution (article) 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“ in Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie, 62 (2015): 337-349.

“Florentine Neo-Platonism between Humanism and Philosophy: Variety of Interpretations” in 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.” in Вісник Київського національного університету: Філософія. Політологія, 2 (112) (2013): 15-19. (“The Notions of Apophatic Theology and Divine Hierarchy of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the 15th century Renaissance Neo-Platonism” in Visnyk of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv: Philosophy. Political Science)

“Ренесансний антропологізм Марсіліо Фічіно” in Філософські проблеми гуманітарних наук, 16-17 (2010): 219-223. (“Renaissance Anthropology of Marsilio Ficino” in Philosophical Problems of the Humanities)
 
“Гуманістична полеміка між Джованні Піко делла Мірандола та Ермолао Барбаро: пошук істини чи змагання в красномовстві?” in Гілея: науковий вісник, 36 (2010): 273-279 (“Humanistic Polemics of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola against Hermolao Barbaro: Searching for Truth or Competition in Eloquence?” in “Hileya: Scientific Bulletin”)
 
“Християнський неоплатонізм Ніколая Кузанського та Джованні Піко делла Мірандола: точки перетину” in Вісник Національного Авіаційного Університету. Серія: Філософія. Культурологія, 3 (1) (2009): 115-118 (“Christian Neo-Platonism of Nicholas of Cusa and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Points of Intersection,” in Proceedings of the Kyiv National Aviation University. Philosophy. Cultural Studies)

 Selected Conferences and Invited Lectures

“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

Community Service

09/2024 – Board Member of the North America Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association

09/2023 - 08/2024 - Chair of the North America Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association

1/03/2024 - Speaker at the information session on European research funding opportunities at Harvard Medical School, co-organized with the EURAXESS North America (Boston, MA, USA)

27/10/2023 - Speaker at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the European Scientific Diasporas in North America organized by EURAXESS North America (Washington, DC, USA)

30/05/2023 – 2/06/2023: Exhibitor and presenter at the NAFSA 2023 Annual Conference & Expo as a part of the European Commission (DG EAC) team (Washington DC, USA)
 
04/2023 – 08/2023: USA East Coast Coordinator of the North America Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association
 
10/2016 – 06/2017: Co-trainer of the British Council Ukraine project Researcher Connect for professional development of young scholars

Memberships of Scientific Societies

Member of the Renaissance Society of America

Member of the Ukrainian Fulbright Circle

Evaluator

2023 - Peer reviewer for the EURIZON Fellowship Programme

2017 – Present: Peer reviewer for the Fulbright Program in Ukraine

Language Skills

 
Russian, Ukrainian – native
English – full working proficiency
German – limited working proficiency
Italian – limited working proficiency
 
XML, HTML, Python (for network analysis + visualization with Gephi/Palladio)