Viola Parente-Capkova

Specializing in

• Finnish literature in the 1890s and the turn of the 19th and the 20th century
  
• Decadent women writers in Europe
  
• Theory of (women’s) literary history, women’s authorship
  
  
  

Personal website

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Some recent publications relevant for NEWW

• ”Decadent Transgressions”, in Tiina Mäntymäki and Olli Mäkinen (eds.), Art and Resistance, Proceedings of the University of Vaasa, Research Papers 290, 2009, p. 15-46.
  
• ”Narcissuses, Medusas, Ophelias: Water Imagery and Femininity in the Texts by Two Decadent Women Writers”, in Z. Kalnická (ed.), Water and Women in Past, Present and Future. Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies. Xlibris Corporation: SUNY Cortland, 2007, p. 196-219.
  
  
  

Realized or planned activities/publications in NEWW-context

• Participating, as substitute member of the Management Committee, and as Working Group leader, in COST Action IS 0901 “Women Writers in History” (2009-2013); cf. COST website.
  
  
  

E-mail

• viocap[at]utu.fi
  
  

SvD, December 2009

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