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Ihor Yudkin

Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine

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Ihor Yudkin

    born in 1948

Art Historian, Researcher of Artistic Culture, Cultural Theory and Stylistics

    Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine (2006)

    PhD in Art History (1996)

Ihor Yudkin has been working at the M. T. Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1970, including serving as head of department from 1996 to 2016. Since 2008, he has also held a position at the Institute of Cultural Research of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. He is a member of the International Committee of Slavists (since 2020), a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine, and a member of the International Society for Music Theory (since 2016).
His main fields of academic interest include the application of linguistic methodologies in cultural studies, rhetoric as a tool for textual analysis, rhythmology as an interdisciplinary integrative field, general stylistics, and the history of stylistic trends. Ihor Yudkin is actively engaged in both scientific and pedagogical work. He authored the course “Applied Cultural Studies,” and his monograph “Cultural Studies of the Enlightenment” has been approved as an academic textbook. He teaches original lecture courses based on accredited programmes covering the history of culture, cultural research methodologies, and the psychology of creativity for postgraduate students at the Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Under his supervision, six PhD and one PhD Candidate dissertations have been successfully defended.
He is a regular participant in many international forums and conferences, including those organised by the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. He has repeatedly taken part in congresses of Slavists and international linguistic conferences, including over two decades of consistent participation in the “Language and Culture” conference named after S. Burago. His scholarly and creative legacy includes over ten authored monographs and editorial work on nineteen collective research publications, including volumes 1 and 2 of the “History of Ukrainian Theatre.” He has contributed numerous articles to Ukrainian and international journals on current issues in musicology, cultural theory, and stylistics. Under his guidance, nine major research topics have been successfully completed at the Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnology, and four more at the Institute of Cultural Research of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. He is also a member of the Specialized Academic Council for Dissertation Defense at the M. T. Rylsky Institute of NASU and served as an expert for the Higher Attestation Commission from 1996 to 2008.
Among his most important scholarly contributions are the works: “Essays on German Musical Culture of the Second Half of the 20th Century” (1994), “Cultural Studies of the Enlightenment” (1999), “The Culture of Romanticism” (2001), “Concise Semantic and Etymological Reference: Slavistics and Romance-Germanic Studies” (2004), “The Formation of Determinants of Ukrainian Culture” (2008), “Aphoristic Foundations of Dramatic and Lyrical Poetry” (2014), and “Phenomenology of Culture as a Methodology of Interpretation” (2020). His notable articles include “Hryhorii Skovoroda as a Dramatist” (2015), “The Multidimensionality of Text as a General Artistic Problem” (in English, 2015), “Theatrical Images and Devices in Ukrainian Culture: from Skovoroda to Kotsiubynskyi” (2016), “The Abstraction of the Everyday as a Foundation of Textual Integrity: The Experience of Ivan Kocherha” (in English, 2017), “Hermeneutics, Heuristics, Morphology: The Metatext as a Starting Point for Interpretation” (2018), “G. Prokofiev – One of the Founders of Music Psychology” (2018), “The Historicism of Panteleimon Kulish” (2019), “Myth, Linguistic Worldview, and Historical Consciousness” (in German, 2019), “Phenomenology as a Methodology of Historical Poetics” (2019), “Phenomenological Intuition in the Artistic Interpretation of History” (2020), “Semantic Ambiguity as a Reflection of Syncretism in Gerhart Hauptmann’s Final Play” (in English, 2020), “Artistic Detail in the Semantic Rhythm of a Dramatic Work” (2020), and “The Subject Content of Artistic Text: From Phenomenology to Mereology” (2021), among many others.
He is currently a leading research fellow at the M. T. Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

He has been recognised with the “1500th Anniversary of Kyiv” Medal (1984), the national musicology award “Primus inter pares” from the National Union of Composers of Ukraine for his monograph “Aphoristic Foundations of Dramatic and Lyrical Poetry” (2017), the Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2018), and the Medal of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine “For the Preparation of Scientific Personnel” (2018).

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