Sergiy Yakovenko completed his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. He also holds a Candidate of Philology degree from the Institute of Literature at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He currently teaches in the Department of English at MacEwan University. His research interests include Canadian literature, English literature, Slavic literatures, and literary theory. He has published on Sheila Watson, Howard O’Hagan, Charles G. D. Roberts, Roy Kiyooka, and Michael Crummey. He is also the author of two comparative monographs (in Ukrainian) on Polish and Ukrainian prose fiction of the twentieth century and modernist literary criticism. His translation of Tamara Hundorova's The Post-Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s received MLA's honorary mention.