Lena Magnone

Lena Magnone defended her doctoral thesis in literary studies (2007) and obtained her postdoctoral degree (habilitation) in Humanities (2017) at the University of Warsaw in Poland, where she worked as an assistant professor until 2020. After a Fulbright fellowship at the New York University, she settled in Germany, first as a Humboldt fellow and now as a research associate professor at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Oldenburg. Thanks to DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) PRIME fellowship, she is now a visiting scholar at the Sorbonne Université, completing her book manuscript about transnational female modernism in Central Europe at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The project

Title: Precarious modernists. (Re)constructing "young women" movement in Habsburg-Slavic small literatures

Keywords: Habsburg Empire, cultural transfer, modernism, psychoanalysis, women’s writing

Hosting institution: Eur'Orbem – Europe orientale, balkanique et médiane (Sorbonne Université et CNRS)

Selection of publications

Freud’s Emissaries. The transfer of psychoanalysis through the Polish intelligentsia to Europe 1900-1939, Lausanne: Sdvig Press 2023;

Emisariusze Freuda. Transfer kulturowy psychoanalizy do polskich sfer inteligenckich przed drugą wojną światową, Kraków: Universitas 2016;

Maria Konopnicka. Lustra i symptomy, Gdańsk: słowo/obraz terytoria, 2011;

‘Eliza Orzeszkowa and Edith Wharton, or Worldly Rhythms of Polish Women’s Writing’ in Polish Literature as World Literature, ed. by P. Florczyk, K. A. Wisniewski, Bloomsbury, London 2023, pp. 71–87;

‘Psychoanalysis and Literature in Poland’ in Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West, ed. by M. Mrugalski, S. Schahadat, I. Wutsdorff, De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2023, pp. 423–438;

‘Die polnischen Gender Studies’. Die Welt der Slaven: Internationale Halbjahresschrift für Slavistik, no. 2, 2016;

‘Freuds Gesandte. Der kulturelle Transfer der Psychoanalyse und ihre Wirkung auf die polnische Intelligenz bis 1939’ in Zwischen Hoffnung und Verzweiflung, ed. by P. Dybel, L. M. Hermanns and E. Kobylinska-Dehe, Gießen: Psychosozial Verlag 2018, pp. 49–67.