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Dr Ursula Phillips

Honorary Research Associate in Polish Literature


From January 1981 until July 2003 Ursula was a member of SSEES Library staff; from September 1988 Area Specialist for the Soviet Union and Poland. Her first degrees were in Russian (University of Durham) and Polish (University of London). In 2006 she was awarded her PhD by the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Since 2004 she has worked as a translator of academic and literary works and pursued independent research. In 2003-4 and 2008-9 she taught undergraduate courses in Polish Literature at SSEES covering for maternity and sabbatical leave. Her research interests include Polish literary and cultural history, contemporary Polish literature, women’s studies, gender and feminism, translation studies. Her recent literary translations are scholarly editions which include substantial introductions, bibliographies and footnotes.


Qualifications

PhD, Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 2006

Researcher Profile

Publications

Recent Publications
2014: ‘Narcyza Żmichowska’s Novel from Life Czy to powieść? (Is this a Novel?).’ The Polish Review 59(1): 18-34.
2013: Polish Literature in Transformation, edited by Ursula Phillips with the assistance of Knut Andreas Grimstad and Kris Van Heuckelom. Berlin et al.: LIT-Verlag. Introduction by Phillips, 3-24.
2012: ‘Epic Poem or Adaptation to Catholic Doctrine? Two Polish Versions of Paradise Lost.’ The European Legacy 17(3): 349-365 (Special Issue: John Milton European).
2012: ‘Generation, Transformation and Place in Inga Iwasiów’s Novels Bambino (2008) and Ku słońcu (2010).’ Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal 2(1): 17-35 (Special Issue: Philosophy and Literature: Generation and Transformation in Gender and Postdependency Discourse).
2012: Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory, edited by Urszula Chowaniec and Ursula Phillips. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Two articles by Phillips: ‘Spiritual Equal or Existential Void? Female Emancipation in Mickiewicz and Prus,’ 78-99; ‘Problems of Feminism and Postfeminism in Novels by Inga Iwasiów and Joanna Bator,’ 127-154.
2010: ‘Glory to the Vanquished or Tribute to Lived Experience: Eliza Orzeszkowa’s Recreation of 1863 in Her Cycle Gloria victis (1910),’ in Mapping Experience in Polish and Russian Women’s Writing, edited by Marja Rytkönen [et al.]. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 64-87.
2009: ‘Apocalyptic Feminism: Adam Mickiewicz and Margaret Fuller.’ Slavonic and East European Review 87(1): 1-38.
2008: Narcyza Żmichowska: Feminizm i religia. Warsaw: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN (book).
Recent Translations
2014: Zofia Nałkowska, Choucas: An International Novel, translated with an introduction by Ursula Phillips. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.
2012: Narcyza Żmichowska, The Heathen, translated with an introduction by Ursula Phillips. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.
2012: Maria Wirtemberska, Malvina, or The Heart’s Intuition, translated with an introduction by Ursula Phillips. 2nd edn. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.