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
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 (WG 1), in COST Action IS 0901 “Women Writers in History” (2009-2013); cf. COST website.
- Co-organizing and ontributing to COST-WWIH workshop Turku 24-26 May 2010.
- Participating in the International Symposium "Women's authorship and literatures of small countries in the 19th century", Ljubljana 22-23 September 2010
- Participating in COST Training School The Hague 11-16 October 2010.
- Participation in the Women Telling Nations: 1st Milestone conference, Madrid 11-13 November 2010
- Participating in the COST-WWIH workshop, Belgrade 14-16 April 2011
- Participation in the Oslo Research Seminar, September 2011
- Participating in the 3rd Milestone conference of the COST-WWIH Action, Poznan 26-28 November 2012.
Contribution to database WomenWriters
- See list
E-mail
- viola.capkova[at]utu.fi
SvD, November 2012
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