Biography:Urszula Chowaniec
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Urszula Ulla Chowaniec | |
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 Urszula Chowaniec w University College London, 2017 | |
| Alma mater | Jagiellonian University |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy |
| Institutions | Jagiellonian University, University College London, Tampere University, Lund University, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University |
Main interests | Literary criticism |
Notable ideas | feminist biography of Irena Krzywicka, women’s melancholy, Yiddish women’s literary history as alternative Yiddish literary history, the body as a women’s literary leitmotif′, Polish hertories |
Urszula Chowaniec, also Ulla Chowaniec is a Polish literary scholar, literary critic, and professor of humanities.
Academic work
After completing her PhD, while working at University College London, she went to Finland, where she worked at the University of Tampere. Since 2007, she has been affiliated with the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków Academy, where she teaches cultural and literary theory and history of literature, and culture of the Polish language. From 2011 to 2018, she worked in the Department of Slavonic East European Studies at University College London.[1] Since 2020, she has been lecturing on Jewish women's literature in Stockholm at the European Paideia Institute for Jewish Research.[2] In addition, she holds a professorship at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Academy and is a lecturer at Lund University. She also holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University College of London.[3] As part of her scholarly activities, she recorded with Katarzyna Tubylewicz the literary podcast SNACK: Stockholm Talks,[4] and organises scholarly and artistic events. She has curated exhibitions and festivals, including One Hundred Years, so What? - an exhibition on the centenary of women's emancipation in Poland organised by the Centrala gallery in Birmingham.[5] She is currently working on a monograph on the poetry of Irena Klepfisz[6] Her most recent research focuses on Jewish history and Jewish identity in women's literature.
Books and publications
- Threads of vulnerability: Migrant precarity and class-sensitive nostalgia in Wioletta Grzegorzewska’s autofiction. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 61(4), 582–595.[7]
- In Search of a Woman: On the Early Novels of Irena Krzywicka , WUJ 2007.[8]
- Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women's Writing, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2015[9]
- See the list of publications at Google Scholar Profile
Footnotes
- ↑ "Discovery". https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/22485-urszula-chowaniec.
- ↑ "Ula Urszula Chowaniec". https://ingeveb.org/people/ula-urszula-chowaniec-chowaniec.
- ↑ "Urszula Chowaniec". February 22, 2023. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/urszula-chowaniec-0.
- ↑ "SNACK SZTOKHOLMSKIE KONWERSACJE KASI I ULI". https://snackkasiiuli.weebly.com/.
- ↑ Szabelski, Tytus (July 28, 2018). "'100 Years, So What?' at Centrala Gallery". https://blokmagazine.com/100-years-so-what-at-centrala-gallery/.
- ↑ "Projekt badawczy prof. nadzw. dr hab. Urszuli Chowaniec: Sztuka pamiętania. Polityka pamięci.". 19 December 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EGoriiIvNM.
- ↑ Chowaniec, Urszula Ulla (2025). "Threads of vulnerability: Migrant precarity and class-sensitive nostalgia in Wioletta Grzegorzewska's autofiction". Journal of Postcolonial Writing 61 (4): 582–595. doi:10.1080/17449855.2025.2535695. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2025.2535695.
- ↑ "W poszukiwaniu kobiety". https://wuj.pl/ksiazka/w-poszukiwaniu-kobiety.
- ↑ "Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women's Writing - Cambridge Scholars Publishing". https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-4438-8097-8.
External links
- Foreigners' - an academic website about publications, meetings and events and projects of Prof. Urszula Chowaniec
- Urszula Chowaniec's project Leader. Musical Tributes about women's literature and songwriting
- Urszula Chowaniec's courses on women's literature and Jewish literature at the School of Jewish Studies - Paideia
- Ula Chowaniec and Katarzyna Tubylewicz's podcasts SNACK: Stockholm Chatter
- Urszula Chowaniec talks about her project of Irena Klepfisz
- Interview with Irena Klepfisz, Stockholm, Bait, May 2019
- E-migrating Landcapes. Seminars organized by Urszula Chowaniec at the at University College London, 2013-2018
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