ABOUT ME |
Hi! I am Ula Chowaniec
I am a Professor at the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracow Academy in Poland and the Research Fellow at University College London in School of Slavonic and East European I am an author of a monograph Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Women’s Writing (2015) and W poszukiwaniu Kobiety: O wczesnych powieściach Ireny Krzywickiej (In Search for a Woman: Early Novels of Irena Krzywicka, Kraków 2007). I also edited and contributed to Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory (2012), Mapping Experience on Polish and Russian Women’s Writing (2010), Masquerade and Femininity. Essays on Polish and Russian Women Writers (2008). My current research concentrate on women emancipation movement from the non-heterosexual perspectives, mainly concentrating on the movement in Eastern Europe, but also generally on the dialogues between women’s movement and lesbian emancipation as well as the connection between the development of the feminist language and the language of non-heteronormative sexualities.
I teach among other courses on: Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing; Gender and Body Politics in Literature and Film (Eastern-European Perspectives); Eastern European Contemporary Literature and Introduction to Cultural Studies. Academic side: https://cudzoziemki.weebly.com Most recent project: https://impactsofgender.weebly.com |