Bahry, Romana

• Romana Bahrij, Romana Bahriĭ

Romana Bahry is a professor whose research areas include comparative Slavic literature (Ukrainian, Polish, Russian); English, Central and East European Film and Culture; and European Studies. She was born in Salzburg, Austria and came to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada as an infant with her parents after World War II. They joined her father’s uncle who had immigrated earlier to Canada from Poland in the 1920s. After three years as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Toronto, she joined York University in 1972. She has authored several books including “Shliakh Sera Val’tera Skotta na Ukrainu (Path of Sir Walter Scott to Ukraine” (1993), “Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine” (1990), Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: Forgotten Chemist of Łańcut and Pioneer of Probiotics /Zapomniany aptekarz miasta Łańcuta i naukowiec-pionier probiotyki (2018), and articles on N. Gogol, Les Kurbas and A. Dovzhenko. Bahry also produced and edited documentaries including a collection of ten videos titled “Ukraine in the 1990s”, a collection of five videos titled “Artists and Writers,” and a collection of three videos titled “Satire: Legends: Stories.”

2019/07/19 KCP. Created.
2023/07/25 KCP. Added biographical sketch and identifiers.