Urszula Ulla Chowaniec

Associate Professor (Docent) at Lund University, Sweden, affiliated with the Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL). She teaches Polish literature and culture, memory studies, gender studies, and Jewish and Yiddish women’s writing. She also lectures at Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden and Paideia Folkhögskola in Stockholm, and serves as Associate Professor at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University. She is the author of Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Women’s Writing (2015) and In Search for a Woman: On the Early Novels of Irena Krzywicka (2007), and is currently involved in the international project Visualizing the Invisible: The Maternal Turn in Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practices in Central Europe (OPUS 28, LAP). Her research focuses on women’s writing and art, migration, cultural memory, war and exile, Jewish secularism, and contemporary artistic practices. She combines academic research with curatorial and international collaborative projects.