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Ula (Urszula) Chowaniec, Ph.D. is a Research Honorary Fellow at at University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She has worked as a teacher fellow in Polisg Studies between 2011 and 2019, and also studies at the UCL. She is a Professor at the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracow University in Poland. She lives in Stockholm and lectures also in Jewish Women’s Literature at the Paideila Folkhögskola.
She is an author of a monograph Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Women’s Writing (2015) and a monograph on the novels of Irena Krzywicka, a Jewish feminist in the 1930s W poszukiwaniu Kobiety: O wczesnych powieściach Ireny Krzywickiej (In Search for a Woman: Early Novels of Irena Krzywicka, Kraków 2007). She edited and introduced the issue on Queering Poland in Central Europe, Volume 19, Issue 1 (2021).
Currently she works on the monograph on the poetry of Irena Klepfisz as her research concentrates on Jewish history and Jewish identity in women writing and the contemporary lesbian women’s writing (https://jewishwomenswriting.weebly.com). Academic website, including the professional profile: https://cudzoziemki.weebly.com
