Maria Kovalchuk

Maria Kovalchuk is a doctoral student at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich and recipient of several scholarships, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes among them. She writes about exiled intellectuals from Soviet Ukraine in postwar Europe, her academic interests lie in intellectual history, memory studies, educational media and transnational Polish-Ukrainian entanglements. In 2022 she was a research assistant and a lecturer at the LMU Munich, previously working on the German-Ukrainian textbook research financed by the German Federal Foreign Office. She earned her BA and MA from the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" and the LMU Munich, studying Ukrainian philology, literature and East European history.