Fending off a triple inferiority complex in academia: an autoethnography

Olga Burlyuk is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) at the Centre for EU Studies, Ghent University (Belgium). She has worked on this essay also during her stay as a Visiting Scholar at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (USA). Her research is situated at the intersection of EU/European studies (with a focus on external policies of the European Union) and Ukrainian studies (with a focus on Ukraine’s socio-political transformation). Her current project examines culture in EU-Ukraine relations. She has published articles in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, The International Spectator, East European Politics and Societies, East European Politics, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law and others, as well as co-edited and contributed to volumes published with Routledge, Palgrave and Ibidem-Press. She can be reached at olga.burlyuk@ugent.be