Position: Associate Professor
Department: College of Arts, Education, and Humanities
Phone: 610-282-1100, x1651
Office: 267 Dooling Hall
Galina Yermolenko, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of English at DeSales University. She received her Ph.D. in English from Marquette University, with a specialty in British Renaissance literature. She also holds a doctorate degree in Germanic/English Philology from Simferopol State University, Crimea, Ukraine. Dr. Yermolenko teaches a variety of courses: Introduction to Drama; Literature of the Middle Ages; Shakespeare; Topics in the Renaissance; Russian Literature; and Russian Culture. Her scholarly interests involve British Renaissance authors, as well as early modern literary and cultural relations between Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean world.
She has published articles and book reviews in various academic journals. She edited a collection of scholarly essays, Roxolana in European History, Literature, and Culture (Ashgate, 2010). Her book chapters have appeared in Through the Eyes of the Beholder: The Holy Land 1517-1714 (Brill, 2013), Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era (Ashgate, 2014), and Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographic History (Brill, 2015; 2016). She is currently working on a book, Early Modern Russian Pilgrims in the Holy Land, 1453-1703. A native of Ukraine, she has been living and working in the United States since 1990.