Mag.^a Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ Magdalena Baran-Szołtys

Project Leader in the postdoc project "Stories Of/In Transformation – Narratives of Transformation and Inequality in Postsocialist Poland

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E-Mail: magdalena.baran@univie.ac.at


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Magdalena Baran-Szołtys holds a doctorate in literature and cultural studies and has been conducting research as a Hertha Firnberg Fellow of the FWF since March 2021 on her postdoc project "Stories Of/In Transformation – Narratives of Transformation and Inequality in Post-Socialist Poland", in which she examines the narrative shifts of inequality in transformation processes based on their occurrence in literature and public debates.

She studied German and Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna, the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the University of Wroclaw. At the end of 2018, she completed her doctorate at the FWF-funded, interdisciplinary doctoral programme "Austrian Galicia and its Multicultural Heritage" at the University of Vienna on the topic of travel to post-Galicia. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and taught German and Literature at the University of Sydney. She also received the University of Vienna's completion grant (2018) and the Literar-Mechana research grant (2019).

She is a research associate at the Department of 20th and 21st Century Literature at the University of Warsaw, where she is working on the National Science Centre Poland (NCN) funded project "(Multi)national Eastern Galicia in the Interwar Polish Discourse (and its Selected Counter-Discourses)" (2019-2021). She is a member of the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), the Research Platform Transformations and Eastern Europe and Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies.

At the beginning of 2021, her monograph "Galicia as Archive. Travel to (Post-)Galicia in Contemporary Literature".


Curriculum Vitae
List of publications

Key Research Topics

• Comparative approaches to Polish and German-language literature of the 20th and 21st centuries
• Narratives of inequality and transformation
• Relationship between literature and politics
• memory studies (archives, postmemory, nostalgia)
• literary and journalistic travels
• Austrian Galicia
• social and cultural history of Central Europe