Urszula Chowaniec

Urszula Chowaniec, also Ula Chowaniec was born 17 May, 1976 in Oświęcim. She is a Polish literary scholar, literary critic, and professor of humanities.

Biography
She spent her childhood and youth in Oświęcim where she graduated from the Stanisław Konarski High School in Oświęcim, becoming the best graduate in 1995. In 2000, she earned a master's degree in Polish philology from the Jagiellonian University. She studied philosophy and journalism at the same university. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the emancipatory work of the Jewish writer and feminist, Irena Krzywicka, under the supervision of Professor Stanisław Jaworski. Since 2000, she has lived permanently outside Poland, teaching Polish literature, women's literature and the Polish language in various research centres. In 2017, she received her doctoral degree from the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Since 2018 she has been living in Stockholm where she teaches at Paidea - the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden and at Lund University. She has three children, Alexander, Hana and Max.

Academic work
After completing her PhD, while working at University College London, she went to Finland, where she worked at the University of Tampere. Since 2007, she has been affiliated with the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków Academy, where she teaches cultural and literary theory and history of literature, and culture of the Polish language. From 2011 to 2018, she worked in the Department of Slavonic East European Studies at University College London. Since 2020, she has been lecturing on Jewish women's literature in Stockholm at the European Paideia Institute for Jewish Research. In addition, she holds a professorship at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Academy and is a lecturer at Lund University. She also holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University College of London. As part of her scholarly activities, she records with Katarzyna Tubylewicz the literary podcast SNACK: Stockholm Talks, and organises scholarly and artistic events. She has curated exhibitions and festivals, including One Hundred Years, so What? - an exhibition on the centenary of women's emancipation in Poland organised by the Centrala gallery in Birmingham. She is currently working on a monograph on the poetry of Irena Klepfisz Her most recent research focuses on Jewish history and Jewish identity in women's literature.

Books

 * In Search of a Woman: On the Early Novels of Irena Krzywicka , WUJ 2007.
 * Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women's Writing, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2015