Staff Profile
Dr Alina Legeyda
Researcher
email: alya.legeyda@newcastle.ac.uk
BACKGROUND
I joined the School of Modern Languages, Â鶹´«Ã½ in September 2023 as a Fellow of British Academy Fellowship and a researcher into Holocaust contemporary mediations across genre (literary, filmic, artistic, photographic, etc.)
Associate Professor at School of Foreign Languages,
VN Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine (2000-2024)
Director of Research at School of English Philology, VN Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2013-2022
Organizer of the Symposium Colour Spectacle in Trauma Narrative Across Genre: Ethics. Aesthetics. Spectatorship. Authenticity.
and curator of the Symposium Exhibition.
Board Member of The British and Irish Association of Holocaust Studies
Founder of a Lecture-to-Victory Project in support of Ukrainian communities over the globe, 2023.
Founder of Culture Lab: BEYOND Text Project, 2024-ongoing
Co-Founder with Professor Alan Marcus of a Project in support of Ukrainian film and theatre-directors, 2024-ongoing
Co-founder and organizer of International Germanistics Forum at VN Karazin Kharkiv National University, 2006-2022
Chief Editor of International Germanistics Forum Proceedings VN Karazin Khaliv National University, 2006-2022
Member of The Literature Film Association
Member of BASEES Association
QUALIFICATIONS:
PhD in Linguistics from VN Karazin Kharkiv National University (2004)
MPhil in Modern Languages (German, French, English and Literature) and Linguistics from VN Karazin Kharkiv National University (2000)
Diplome de l'Institut Provence Marseille, France (1999)
My Hobbies are writing poetry and prose and old photographs.
RESEARCH
My research and publications focus on
-the Holocaust contemporary mediations and representations across genre (literary, filmic, artistic, photographic, testimonial);
-transformations of the Holocaust cultural memory;
- totalitarianism in film, Stalin epoch and the Nazi filmic propaganda;
- The Holocaust representation in Soviet and Post Soviet cinematography.
I regularly organize and curate Holocaust and Genocide memorial events as a Board Member and in collaboration with BIAHS (The British and Irish Association of the Holocaust Studies), EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, Professor Karel Berkhoff), Professor Alan Marcus (the University of Aberdeen) and Professor Matthew Pauly (Michigan State University)
PUBLICATIONS
Papers submitted for publication in 2024:
Representing The Unrepresentable And Beyond: The Case Of Prussian Blue (2024)
Exhibition Materialities As Creative Practice: Revisiting Colour In The Holocaust Contemporary Representation: Ethics. Aesthetics. Spectatorship. Authenticity. (2024)
Charlotte in Conversation with Charlotte: The Reflection of the Nazi Propaganda in Art and Dreams (based on Charlotte Beradt's Third Reich of Dreams and Charlotte Salomon's Leben? Oder Theater?) (2024)
Published Papers/ Attended Conferences
Legeyda A. Mediating Holocaust Through Poetry: Do Butterflies Live in a Ghetto? British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies Online Conference 2024.
Legeyda A Shall We Bring Colour to Holocaust? Holocaust Centre North Symposium 1 March 2024
Legeyda Holocaust Novels On Screen: Cases of Close and Loose (Shadow) Literature-Film Adaptation. International Assocostion of Literary Semantics Conference. Kent, UK 2024
Legeyda A. The "Shadow" of the Holocaust in Soviet /Post-Soviet Cinematography BIAHS Annual Conference, Exeter, UK 2024
Legeyda A V. N. Cross-media Adaptation of Anna Frank Tagebuch as a Reconnecting Polylogue of the Past and the Present”. Reconnecting and Recovering: The Second virtual joint conference (16-17 February, 2023), UK
Legeyda A., Legeyda D. @Eva stories Project: Adaptation in Re(shaping) the Architecture of Memory.
HUMANITIES. 2023 Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow.
Legeyda A. Metatextuality in cinematographic discourse. Kyiv Language and Conceptual Images of the World Journal 2018 (62/2), 152-164
Legeyda A. The Art of Screen Adaptation: Recognizing Semiotic Differences Or Thinking Outside The Page. Kherson State University Scientific Journal. Linguistics Series 2013 (20), 184-190.
Legeyda A. Screenadaptation in Synergetic Paradigm: in Search of the Blue Bird of Interdisciplinary Methodology. Otrog Academy Scientific Journal 2013 (38), 203-206.
Module Leader for:
GER1016-1116 Deutschland: Geschichte. Kultur. Gesellshaft / Germany: History. Culture. Society,