Lena Magnone : International symposium ‘Literary History(ies) and Nationalism’

As part of the international symposium ‘Literary History(ies) and Nationalisms,’ Lena Magnone, researcher in residence at the Collegium, will present her work: ‘Precarious Modernists: A Look Back at a Research Project.’ This event is organised by the CREE/INALCO, the IHRIM, and the French Institute in Bulgaria.

Programme website French Institute in Bulgaria

Lena Magnone is a literary scholar with a particular interest in Central European modernism, psychoanalysis and women's writing. She defended her Ph.D. (2007) and habilitated (2017) at the University of Warsaw in Poland, where she is a lecturer until 2020. After a Fulbright fellowship at New York University, she moved to Germany, first as a Humboldt Scholar and then as a Research Associate at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Oldenburg. She has recently published a two-volume monograph, Freud's Emissaries. The Transfer of Psychoanalysis by the Polish Intelligentsia to Europe 1900-1939.