Lena Magnone: "Uncredited patronesses. The women who financed Polish modernist magazines"

As part of the international workshop "Backstage of Modern Art: market, industry and propaganda that shaped the art and literature in 1890-1960s", organised by the Université Libre de Bruxelles from 10 to 12/02/25, Lena Magnone, researcher in residence at the Collegium, will present her research : "Uncredited patronesses. The women who financed Polish modernist magazines".

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.

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