Lena Magnone : "Women as National Writers: A Central-European Appendix to La Fabrique de l’écrivain national"
On The April 10, 2025
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As part of the international workshop ‘Women writers and the construction of national identities in the long nineteenth century: Comparative perspectives’, organised by the University of Basel, Lena Magnone, researcher in residence at the Collegium, will present her research: ‘Women as national writers: A Central European appendix to La Fabrique de l'écrivain national".
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.