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Anti-Hegemonic Code-Switching: The Case of Odesa Poet Boris Khersonskii, Part I
In 2018, Boris Khersonskii, Ukraine’s most famous Russian-language poet, wrote on Facebook—in Ukrainian: “My credo is: in Odesa, obstruct the Russian language gently, but oppose boorishness on the part of...
Anti-Hegemonic Code-Switching: The Case of Odesa Poet Boris Khersonskii, Part II
Immediately after Euromaidan, Khersonskii began to reflect on his own precarious position as a Russophone patriot of Ukraine who had published his poetry primarily in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Anti-Hegemonic Code-Switching: The Case of Odesa Poet Boris Khersonskii, Part III
Taken together, Khersonskii’s posts imagine a future multilingual society that recognizes the civic obligation of understanding and speaking Ukrainian. His own bilingualism, meanwhile, helps mitigate language conflict by modeling flexibility...
Russians’ “Impressionable Years”
I argue that Russians’ worldview in the Putin era derives, at least in part, from the lived experience of the years just before and after the Soviet Union’s collapse. The...