Assya Humesky

734.647.2136
assyakh@umich.edu

Ph.D., Radcliffe College, 1955

Professor Humesky figures among the senior American scholars specializing in Russian and Ukrainian literatures. Her broad range of interests includes Russian poetry and stylistics, Russian drama, Ukrainian language and literature, and applied linguistics. She has translated poetry and prose from Russian and Ukrainian and is active in the field of Reading and Oral Proficiency Testing.

Publications:

• Majakovskij and His Neologisms, New York: Rausen Publishers 1964.
• Modern Russian I and Modern Russian II, together with Clayton Dawson and Charles Bidwell, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1964-5.
• Modern Ukrainian, Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1980 and several reprints.
• Individual Ukrainian, Elementary I and II, Intermediate I and II, and Advanced I and II, Columbus: Ohio State University, 1984-97.
• Ukrainian Reader I, with Ruth Shamraj and Katherine Rowenchu, and Ukrainian III, with Ruth Shemraj, Columbus: Ohio State Foreign Language Publications, 1993, 1995.
• Prof. Humesky  has published articles on poetic neologisms, rhyming, and sound expressivity in Russian and Ukrainian poetry and on serveral poets and novelists.   Her latest publications include an article on "Symbolism in Lesja Ukrainka's 'Vila-Posestra'" (Kiev, Suchasnist, 9 September 1996) and "Conversational and Literary Elements in Contemporary Ukrainian Press," in Essays on Ukrainian Orthography and Language, Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York- Lviv, 1997.