Symposium / Seminar

Lena Magnone : Study day "The use of mythical figures in gender studies theory"

On The June 10, 2025


 

ENS de Lyon - 15 parvis René Descartes - Buisson Building - Room D8.001 - 69007 Lyon
10am - 5.30pm

Toyen (Maria Cerminova, dite), Le Paravent (1966), Peinture à l’huile, Paris, Musée d’Art moderne de Paris
Toyen (Maria Cerminova, dite), Le Paravent (1966), Peinture à l’huile, Paris, Musée d’Art moderne de Paris

As part of "The use of mythical figures in gender studies theory" study day (co-organised by Camille Islert, ENS de Lyon and Cassandre Martigny, ENS de Lyon / Sorbonne Université), Lena Magnone, researcher in residence at the Collegium de Lyon, will present her research:"Beata Rank and the feminist relecture of myth in psychoanalysis".


Programme website ENS de Lyon
 

 

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.