Komparatistická středa | Anna Dżabagina: Comparative Sapphism

Ústav české literatury a komparatistiky FF UK zve na další Komparatistickou středu, kde vystoupí členka CEFRES Prague Anna Dżabagina s přednáškou „‚Comparative Sapphism.‘ (Re)constructing the Transnational History of Sapphic Modernism on the Territories of the Russian Empire“.

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Our lecturer will present her research focused on the phenomenon of Sapphic Modernism – a kind of literature that is evidence of a search for a new language to express female same-sex desires, identities, and experiences – on the territories of the Russian Empire, with its unique conditions, interconnections, tendencies, and tensions, which cross national cultural frameworks and remain invisible within the traditional scope of national literary research. Employing a transnational perspective, Dżabagina investigates works by such writers as Narcyza Żmichowska, Lesia Ukrainka, Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal, Sofia Parnok, Lyudmila Vilkina-Minskaya, and others, living and creating within the same imperial structure, not only to reconstruct the history of queer women’s writings in the region but also to highlight the intrinsic connection between sapphic expressibility and national, cultural, and geopolitical conditions for literary production.

Anna Dżabagina, Ph.D.: assistant professor at the Institute of Polish Literature, University of Warsaw and postdoctoral research fellow at CEFRES Prague. Dżabagina is a literary historian primarily interested in 19^th and early 20^th century Central and Eastern European literature, with a core focus on women’s writings, queer literature, and transnational modernist networks. She defended a thesis on Polish-German modernist writer Eleonore Kalkowska (1883-1937), investigated through the lenses of transnational modernism studies, exile studies, and locational feminism. She is the finalist of Poznań’s Literary Award 2022 and the laureate of several renowned scholarships (with the prestigious START Scholarship funded by the Foundation of Polish Science and Fulbright Senior Award, among others). She is working on a project on sapphic modernism in Central and Eastern European women’s writing in the 19^th and early 20^th centuries, particularly in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian literature (OPUS research grant funded by the National Science Centre).