Editors
In addition to the permanent editors listed here, we will invite visiting editors to work on separate issues of Women’s Writing Online. Their information will be found from the editors section of the issue they have been co-editing.
Main Editor
Urszula Chowaniec: Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracow Academy in Poland. She is also a researcher within international project at the University of Tampere, Finland: Body, Generation and Transformation: Polish and Russian Women’s Writing (www.womenswriting.fi, 2007-2010). She also teaches at University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
She gained her PhD in literary studies at the Jagiellonian University in 2004 and is the author of In Search of Woman: On the Early Novels of Irena Krzywicka (W poszukiwaniu kobiety. O wczesnych powieściach Ireny Krzywickiej, 2007), she has co-edited Masquerade and Femininity. Essays on Polish and Russian Women Writers (with Marja Rytkönen and Ursula Phillips, Cambridge Scholar Publishing 2008). She has published articles and book chapters on women’s writing, literary theory and literary and cultural history (e.g. in Gender and Sexuality in Ethical Context: Ten essays on Polish prose, ed. Knut Andreas Grimstad and Ursula Phillips, Slavica Bergensia, Volume 5, 2005).
Editors, co-operators:
Ursula Phillips: Ph.D. (Institute of Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 2006). Since April 2007 Honorary Research Associate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. She was a contributor to and joint editor with Knut Andreas Grimstad of Gender and Sexuality in Ethical Context: Ten Essays on Polish Prose (University of Bergen, 2005); and joint author (with Grażyna Borkowska and Małgorzata Czermińska) of Polish Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Pisarki polskie od średniowiecza do współczesności, Gdańsk, 2000). She contributed chapters on Polish women writers to A History of Central European Women’s Writing, edited by Celia Hawkesworth (Basingstoke, 2001). Her book on Narcyza Żmichowska (Narcyza Żmichowska. Feminism i religia) was published in Warsaw in 2008. She was a contributor to and joint editor with Urszula Chowaniec and Marja Rytkönen, of Masquerade and Femininity: Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). She was joint editor of Women’s Writing Online’s first issue “Poland Under Feminist Eyes” (2009). She has published articles on Mickiewicz, Orzeszkowa and other Polish writers, and also translated Polish fiction and academic works into English.
Marja Rytkönen: Docent, Ph.D. Senior lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland, Department of Russian. Head of the project Polish and Russian Women’s Writing in Transformation: Generation, National Identity and the Body (PURU) based at the University of Tampere, Department of Russian Language and Culture. Her publications include About the Self and Time: On Autobiographical Texts by E. Gershtein, T. Petkevich, E. Bonner, M. Plisetskaja and M. Arbatova (Tampere 2004). She was a contributor to and joint editor with Markku Lehtiniemi and Simo Leisti of Real Stories, Imagined Realities: Fictionality and Non-fictionality in Literary Constructs and Historical Contexts (Tampere 2007).
Kirsi Kurkijärvi: M.A. Doctoral student at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her main research interests are the Second World War, women’s war writing, and gender and cultural studies. She has been writing her thesis within the framework of the international project on Polish and Russian women’s writing—Polish and Russian Women’s Writing in Transformation: Generation, National Identity and the Body (PURU), based at the university of Tampere, School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies. She is a contributor to Masquerade and Femininity: Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers (Newcastle 2008) and Recalling the Past—(Re)Constructing the Past. Collective and Individual Memory of World War II in Russia and Germany (Helsinki 2008) and joint editor of Women’s Writing Online’s first issue “Poland Under Feminist Eyes” (2009).
