Marko Pavlyshyn is Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, and convenor of Ukrainian Studies in Monash University’s School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics.

His research specialisations and preferred areas for higher degree supervision include modern and contemporary Ukrainian literature, post-colonial approaches to the study of Slavic literatures and cultures, and issues of culture and national identity.

Marko Pavlyshyn is the author of Kobylianska: Interpretations (Kharkiv, 2008), Canon and Iconostasis (Kyiv, 1997), and more than 70 chapters in books and articles in scholarly journals, including Slavic Review, Slavonic and East European Review, Slavic and East European Journal, Suchasnist’, Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, and Australian Slavonic and East European Studies.

In 2000-2005 Marko Pavlyshyn was the Director of Monash University’s Centre for European Studies. He was the founding President of the Ukrainian Studies Association of Australia and is a member of the Bureau of the International Association for Ukrainian Studies. In 1998-2003 he was President of the Australia and New Zealand Slavists’ Association. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.