Volodymyr Yermolenko

Volodymyr Yermolenko (Володимир Анатолійович Єрмоленко; born 1980) is a Ukrainian philosopher, essayist, translator, doctor of political studies (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences: EHESS, Paris), candidate of philosophical sciences (Kyiv, 2009), and senior lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is laureate of the Yurii Sheveliov Prize and of the Petro Mohyla Award (2021).

In 2002, Yermolenko graduated from NaUKMA, and in 2003 from the Central European University in Budapest. In 2011, he defended his doctoral thesis at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris). He teaches at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

In 2020, together with Tetiana Oharkova, Yermolenko started the Kult podcast, dedicated to defining epochs in the history of culture and cult authors who had a great influence on the development of literature and culture.

Since November 2022 Yermolenko has served as president of PEN Ukraine.

In December 2024, he started the philosophical podcast Thinking in Dark Times.

Prizes 2018, Yurii Sheveliov Prize for Fluid Ideologies 2018, "Book of the Year" in 2 nominations, for Fluid Ideologies. 2021, Petro Mohyla Prize: for Fluid Ideologies Distant Relatives, Krytyka, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2015 Ocean Catcher: The Story of Odysseus, Stary Lev, 2017. Fluid ideologies. Ideas and Politics in Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 2018.

Publications

Оповідач і філософ: Вальтер Беньямін та його час / В. Єрмоленко. — Київ: Критика, 2011. — 280 с. Далекі близькі. Есеї з філософії та літератури / В. Єрмоленко. — Львів: Видавництво Старого Лева, 2015. — 304 с. Ловець океану: Історія Одіссея / В. Єрмоленко. — Львів: Видавництво Старого Лева, 2017. — 216 с. «Плинні ідеології. Ідеї та політика в Європі ХІХ–ХХ століть»/ В.Єрмоленко — К.: ДУХ I ЛIТЕРА, 2018. — 480 с From Pushkin to Putin: Russian Literature’s Imperial Ideology - Foreign Policy 25 June 2022