Inna Bulkina
Inna Semenivna Bulkina was a Ukrainian literary critic, writer and editor.
Biography
Bulkina was born on 12 November 1963 in the city of Kiev, Ukrainian SSR.In the 1980s, she attended the University of Tartu in the Estonian SSR. Her master's thesis was titled "Авторские сборники Е.А.Баратынского на фоне традиции русского поэтического сборника первой половины XIX века", which she defended in 1993. Her doctoral dissertation was titled "Киев в русской литературе первой трети XIX века", and she graduated with a PhD from the University of Tartu.
Bulkina studied 19th-century Russian poetry and Soviet and post-Soviet culture in Russia and Ukraine. She later worked at the Pushkin Museum in Kyiv and was a researcher at the Institute of Cultural Policy at the.
She was a columnist for the Russian Journal, as well as a writer for various magazines and websites. She contributed to the print magazines and journals ', ', and ' as well as the online magazines, ', Гефтер, and . Her writing focused on literature and socio-political topics, including on Kyiv's place in Russian and Ukrainian culture, the Russian war against Ukraine, and modern Ukrainian literature.
Bulkina was the author of the project "Magazine Pulp", and compiled the anthologies Киев. Фотографии на память and Киев в русской поэзии and the poetry collection Числа.
Bulkina died unexpectedly in Kyiv on 20 January 2021.