A native of Odesa, Professor Chernetsky completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at Columbia University and at Miami University of Ohio, where he was the director of the Film Studies Program. His teaching and research interests are the literature and culture of Ukraine, Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. He has also studied the intellectual history of Russia and Ukraine, cultural aspects of globalization, and postmodernism/postmodernity. He currently teaches courses in 20th and 21st century Russian literature, Soviet and Post-Soviet film and is preparing a course on Slavic Science Fiction. He has been an associate professor at Kansas University since 2013.