Svitlana Matviyenko

Svitlana Matviyenko (March 11, 1976, Kamianets-Podilskyi) is a Ukrainian writer, literary critic, cultural researcher, film and media theorist. She researches the political economy of the media, the Internet, information theory, the history of cybernetics and psychoanalysis.

Biography
She first studied at the Kamianets-Podilskyi Pedagogical Institute and later at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In the summer of 1998, she studied at Harvard. Her completion of her master's degree (2001) at an accelerated pace allowed her earlier admission to the postgraduate course of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

She was the editor of the literature department in the magazine "Art Line", and the editor-in-chief of the newspapers "Literatura plus" and "Komentary".

Studied the master's course "Violence and recognition in culture" at Lviv University. As a Fulbright Graduate Student Program scholar, she worked at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, United States (Ph.D. Program). She presently resides in Canada.

She has authored numerous literary, critical and cultural articles, poems, as well as the book "Formalism Discourse: Ukrainian Context" (Lviv, 2004).