Viktoriia Bazyk

After earning her first degree in International Relations at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Viktoriia Bazyk studied Art History and German Philology at the University of Stuttgart. She later moved to Vienna where she completed her master’s degree in Art History with a thesis on transgressive masculinity in William Bouguereau’s painting “Dante and Virgil in Hell”, which was awarded the Sir-Ernst-Gombrich-Nachwuchspreis in 2024. During her studies she served as an intern at the Laboratory for Cognitive Research in Art History (CReA Lab) and worked as an academic tutor and project assistant at the Vienna Department of Art History. In 2024 she became a fellow of the Vienna Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies and is currently working on her dissertation, provisionally entitled "Constructing hypermasculine masculinities: The envois de Rome and the academic male nude in mid-19th century France" and supervised by Prof. Marianne Koos (University of Vienna) and Prof. Mechthild Fend (Goethe University Frankfurt).

Academic and salon painting in 19th century France, gender and queer studies in art history, representations and constructions of masculinity in visual arts, the nude as a means of artistic expression.