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Katja Mihurko Poniz



Specializing in

  • Slovene and German women writers in the 19th Century
  • Gender and literary history
  • Feminist theory


Website of the University of Nova Gorica

Some recent publications relevant for NEWW

  • Labirinti ljubezni v slovenski književnosti od romantike do II. svetovne vojne (Labyrinths of Love in the Slovene Literature from romanticism until the World War II). Ljubljana: Sophia, 2008.
  • "Nation and gender in the writings of Slovene women writers : 1848-1918". Aspasia International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, 2008, vol. 2, p. 28-43.
  • "'Schämen Sie sich nicht, wenn Sie slowenische Marlitt genannt werden!'. Die Rezeption deutschsprachiger Prosaistinnen im slowenischen Kulturleben des 19. Jahrhunderts / 'N’ayez pas honte si l’on vous appelle la Marlitt slovène !’’ La réception des femmes écrivains allemandes dans la vie culturelle slovène au XIXe siècle", in Kerstin Wiedemann and Elisa Müller-Adams (eds.), Wege aus der Marginalisierung. Geschlecht und Schreibweisen in deutschsprachigen Romanen von Frauen, 1780-1914 / Echapper à la marginalisation. Genre et récit dans le roman féminin allemand, 1780-1914. Nancy, Presses universitaires de Nancy, 2013, p. 335-356.

Realized or planned activities/publications in NEWW-context

  • Participating, as member of the Management Committee and co-leader of Working Group 4, in COST Action IS 0901 “Women Writers In History” (2009-2013); cf. COST website.
  • Bochum, May 2009, "Genres development in the literature of Slovene Women Writers until 1900", contribution to the third international conference of the NEWW network (New approches to European Women’s Writing) Theorizing Narrative Genres and Gender, hosted by Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
  • Participating in the COST-WWIH session of “Les rôles transfrontaliers joués par les femmes dans la construction de l’espace européen, de la Renaissance au XXIe siècle”
  • Contributing to COST-WWIH workshop Turku 24-26 May 2010.
  • Organizer of Colloquium “Women’s Authorship and Literatures of Small Countries in the 19th Century” (Ljubljana World Capital of Books and COST-WWIH), Ljubljana September 2010
  • Participation in the Women Telling Nations: 1st Milestone COST conference, Madrid 11-13 November 2010
  • Participation in panel "Women's Biographical Traditions Across Europe" together with Maarit Leskelä-Kärki, Tiina Kinnunen, Renee Frangeur, and Birgitte Possing at the IABA Europe 2011: Trajectories of (Be)longing: Europe in Life-Writing conference, Tallinn, May 2011.
  • Participating in the Action conference Voices in Dialogue, Chawton 3-5 November 2011
  • (with Tanja Badalic) "Les femmes écrivains françaises dans le territoire slovène du XIXe siècle", in Guyonne Leduc (ed.), Les rôles transfrontaliers joués par les femmes dans la construction de l'Europe. Paris, L'Harmattan, 2012, p. 77-96.(abstract Mihurko-Badalic)
  • Participating in the International Workshop "Collaborating in networks: preparing future projects", Münster 3-5 April 2013
  • Contributing to the final COST-WWIH conference FEMALE AUTHORSHIP IN EUROPE, The Hague June 19-21 2013
  • Principal Investigator in the HERA Travelling TexTs CRP (2013-2016)
  • "Gender and narration in the writings of three 19th-century Slovene women: Pavlina Pajk, Luiza Pesjak and Zofka Kveder", in Lieselotte Steinbrügge and Suzan van Dijk, eds., Narrations genrées. Ecrivaines dans l’histoire européenne jusqu’au début du XXe siècle. Louvain etc., Peeters, 2014, p. 265-281.


E-mail

  • katja.mihurko-poniz[at]guest.arnes.si


More details

SvD, February 2014



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