Romana M. Bahry

Publications

Books

  • 2018Bahry, Romana M. Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: Forgotten Chemist of Łańcut and Pioneer of Probiotics / Zapomniany aptekarz miasta Łańcuta i naukowiec-pionier probiotyki. Bilingual English and Polish edition. Polish translation by Leszek Puchała; preface by Roman Plyatsko. Toronto: York University Press, 2018; reprinted 2021. xxiv, 346 pp. ISBN 978-1-77355-016-9.
  • 1993Bahry, Romana [Романа Багрій]. Shliakh sera Val’tera Skotta na Ukrainu: «Taras Bul’ba» M. Hoholia i «Chorna rada» P. Kulisha v svitli istorychnoi romanistyky Val’tera Skotta [The Path of Sir Walter Scott to Ukraine]. Translated from English into Ukrainian by Ludmila Sharinova. Kyiv: Vsesvit, 1993. 296 pp. ISBN 5-7372-0016-7.
  • 1990Bahry, Romana M., ed. Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine. North York, Ont.: Captus University Publications, 1990. xvi, 236 pp. ISBN 0-921801-05-X.

Book chapters

  • 2011“Existentialism and the Leap of Faith in the Works of Ukrainian Writers of the Sixties.” In Twentieth Century Ukrainian Literature: Essays in Honor of Dmytro Shtohryn, edited by Jaroslaw Rozumnyi, 194–214. Kyiv: Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Publishing House, 2011.
  • 1994“Rock Culture and Rock Music in Ukraine.” In Rocking the State: Rock Music and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia, edited by Sabrina Petra Ramet, 243–296. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994. Link
  • 1992“The Satirical Current in Popular Youth Culture, Rock Music and Film in Ukraine in the 1990s.” In Ukraine in the 1990s, edited by Marko Pavlyshyn and J. E. M. Clarke, 146–164. Melbourne: Monash University, 1992.
  • 1991“Skaz Narrative in A. Svydnyts’kyi’s Liuborats’ki (The Liuboratski Family Chronicle).” In Living Record: Essays in Memory of Constantine Bida, edited by Irena R. Makaryk, 35–49. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1991.
  • 1990“J. J. Rousseau’s Émile and P. Kulish’s Views on Education.” In In Working Order: Essays Presented to G. S. N. Luckyj, edited by E. N. Burstynsky and R. Lindheim, 57–79. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1990.
  • 1990“Soviet Ukrainian Documentary Films and New Directions in Filmmaking.” In Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine, edited by Romana M. Bahry, 188–197. North York, Ont.: Captus University Publications, 1990. Ukrainian translation: “Vidvertist ne ruinuie” (Openness Does Not Destroy), Novyny kinoekrana (Kyiv), January 1992. PDF
  • 1973Introduction to Panteleimon Kulish, The Black Council, abridged and translated by George S. N. Luckyj and Moira Luckyj, vii–xxii. Ukrainian Classics in Translation, no. 2. Littleton, Colo.: Ukrainian Academic Press, 1973.

Articles

  • 2011–2014“Subversions in Dovzhenko’s Earth.” Harvard Ukrainian Studies 32–33 (2011–2014): 97–106. Link · JSTOR
  • 2013“Sources for the Forgotten 1912 Discovery of the Probiotic Bacterium Bacillus carpathicus in Huslanka and the Forgotten Discoverer, Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: Pharmacist of Łańcut.” Organon 45 (2013): 185–207. Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. PDF
  • 2012“Archival and Printed Sources for the Biography of the Galician Scientist Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk.” In the proceedings of the international conference Knyzhkova ta rukopysna kultura: istoriia, metodolohiia, dzherelna baza. Lviv: Tsentr nezalezhnykh istorychnykh studii, May 2012.
  • 1994“Les’ Kurbas’ Jimmie Higgins: An Expressionist Avant-garde Drama.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 36, nos. 3–4 (September–December 1994): 349–362. Link
  • 1994“Dzhimmi Higgins: ekspresionistychna avangardysts’ka drama.” Slovo i chas (Kyiv), 1994, no. 7 (403): 67–74. In Ukrainian.
  • 1991“Rock and Roll Always Lives: The Rise of Rock Culture in Soviet Ukraine.” Compass (Toronto), March/April 1991: 45–49.
  • 1990“New Directions and Old Problems in Ukrainian Cinema.” Suchasnist (Munich and New York), 1990, no. 10 (October): 50–57. In Ukrainian.
  • 1990“Notebooks of a Snub-Nosed Mephistopheles.” Vsesvit (Kyiv), November 1990: 166–171. In Ukrainian.
  • 1988“Existentialist and Absurdist Motifs in the Works of Contemporary Soviet Ukrainian Writers: V. Shevchuk’s Naberezhna 12 (Riverside 12) and M. Osadchy’s Bil’mo (Cataract).” Suchasnist (Munich and New York), December 1988: 18–34. In Ukrainian.
  • 1987“Reason and Instinct in V. Vynnychenko’s Notebooks of a Snub-Nosed Mephistopheles.” Suchasnist (Munich and New York), April 1987. In Ukrainian.
  • 1984–85“Sir Walter Scott and Pantelejmon Kuliš.” In Studies in Ukrainian Literature, edited by Bohdan Rubchak. The Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. 16, nos. 41–42 (1984–85): 135–173. PDF
  • 1984“The Use of Historical Sources in Taras Bulba and The Black Council.” Studia Ucrainica 2 (University of Ottawa Press, 1984): 49–64.
  • 1982“The Individual and History in the Historical Novel: P. Kulish’s The Black Council.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 24, no. 2 (June 1982): 152–160. Link
  • 1980“Superheroes, Gentlemen or Pariahs? The Cossacks in Nikolai Gogol’s Taras Bulba and Panteleimon Kulish’s Black Council.” Journal of Ukrainian Studies 5, no. 2 (Fall 1980): 30–47. Link
  • 1972“The Expressionist Experiment in Berezil’: Kurbas and Kulish.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 14, no. 2 (Summer 1972): 324–344. Link

Book reviews

  • 1992Review of Nicholas Galichenko, Glasnost: Soviet Cinema Responds, edited by Robert Allington (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991). Canadian Slavonic Papers 34, no. 3 (September 1992): 329–331.
  • 1984Review of George S. N. Luckyj, Panteleimon Kulish: A Sketch of His Life and Times (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983). Journal of Ukrainian Studies 9, no. 2 (Winter 1984): 107–111.
  • 1983Review of George G. Grabowicz, The Poet as Mythmaker: A Study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Shevchenko (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1982). Canadian Slavonic Papers 25, no. 4 (December 1983): 600–601.
  • 1979Review of Khrestomatiia z ukrainskoi literatury XX storichchia (Readings in Ukrainian Literature of the Twentieth Century), edited by Eugene W. Fedorenko and Pawlo Malar (New York, 1978). Journal of Ukrainian Graduate Studies 4, no. 2 (Fall 1979): 101–105.
  • 1972Review of Les’ Kurbas: spohady suchasnykiv, edited by V. S. Vasyl’ko (Kyiv: Mystetstvo, 1969). Canadian-American Slavic Studies 6, no. 1 (Spring 1972): 342–343.
  • 1972Review of Lyubow Kolens’ka, Pawliw triyumf (New York, 1971). Knyho-kliub (Ukrainian Book Club), 1972. In Ukrainian.

Translations from Ukrainian

  • 1981“The Dragon of Kiev.” In Hédi Bouraoui and Saul Field, Tales of Heritage. Toronto: Upstairs Gallery, 1981. Translation from Ukrainian.
  • 1973Hryhorii Kosynka, “In the Grainfields.” In Modern Ukrainian Short Stories, edited by George S. N. Luckyj, 155–163. Littleton, Colo.: Ukrainian Academic Press, 1973. Translation from Ukrainian.

Unpublished manuscript

  • Hovorimo ukrainskoiu movoiu / Let’s Speak Ukrainian. Intermediate Ukrainian textbook with language drills. Unpublished manuscript, used as the course text for Intermediate Ukrainian at York University.

Dissertation

  • 1978“Taras Bulba and The Black Council: Adherence to and Divergence from Sir Walter Scott’s Historical Novel Pattern.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto, 1978. 454 pp.

Video

  • 1992Ukraine in the 1990s (ten documentaries), Artists and Writers (five) and Satire: Legends: Stories (three). Eighteen educational videos, Kiev Glasnost Films, 1992. Producer and editor.