Inna Bulkina

Inna Bulkina
Born
Inna Semenivna Bulkina

(1963-11-12)12 November 1963
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died20 January 2021(2021-01-20) (aged 57)
Kyiv, Ukraine
NationalityUkrainian
Alma materUniversity of Tartu (PhD)

Inna Semenivna Bulkina (Ukrainian: Інна Семенівна Булкіна; 12 November 1963 – 20 January 2021) was a Ukrainian literary critic, writer and editor.

Biography

Bulkina was born on 12 November 1963 in the city of Kiev, Ukrainian SSR.[1][2]

In the 1980s, she attended the University of Tartu in the Estonian SSR.[3] Her master's thesis was titled "Авторские сборники Е.А.Баратынского на фоне традиции русского поэтического сборника первой половины XIX века" (English: "Author's collections of EA Baratynsky against the background of the tradition of the Russian poetry collection of the first half of the XIX century"), which she defended in 1993.[2] Her doctoral dissertation was titled "Киев в русской литературе первой трети XIX века" (English: "Kyiv in Russian literature during the first third of the XIX century"), and she graduated with a PhD from the University of Tartu.[3][4]

Bulkina studied 19th-century Russian poetry and Soviet and post-Soviet culture in Russia and Ukraine.[3] She later worked at the Pushkin Museum in Kyiv and was a researcher at the Institute of Cultural Policy at the Ukrainian Center for Cultural Studies [uk].[3][2]

She was a columnist for the Russian Journal, as well as a writer for various magazines and websites.[2] She contributed to the print magazines and journals Banner [uk], New World [uk], and New Literary Review [ru] as well as the online magazines, Daily Magazine [ru], Гефтер (gefter.ru), and Russian Magazine [ru]. Her writing focused on literature and socio-political topics, including on Kyiv's place in Russian and Ukrainian culture, the Russian war against Ukraine, and modern Ukrainian literature.[3][1][2]

Bulkina was the author of the project "Magazine Pulp",[5] and compiled the anthologies Киев. Фотографии на память (English: Kyiv. Photographs in Memory) and Киев в русской поэзии (English: Kyiv in Russian Poetry) and the poetry collection Числа (English: Numbers).[4]

Bulkina died unexpectedly in Kyiv on 20 January 2021.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Інна Булкіна. In Memoriam, Євген Мінко, Тамара Гундорова" [Inna Bulkina. In Memoriam]. Критика [Critique] (in Ukrainian). February 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Умерла Инна Булкина" [Inna Bulkina died]. polit.ru (in Russian). 20 January 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e "В Киеве умерла филолог и литературный критик Инна Булкина". Радио Свобода (in Russian). 20 January 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  4. ^ a b c "Умерла филолог и литературный критик Инна Булкина" [Inna Bulkina, Philologist and Literary Critic, Died]. jewseurasia.org (in Russian). Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  5. ^ Marsh, Rosalind J.; Marsh, Rosalind (2007). Literature, History and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2006. Peter Lang. p. 57. ISBN 978-3-03911-069-8.