Research Centre for Humanities

Prof. Dr. Katja Mihurko

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Full professor
Head of the Research Centre for Humanities
katja.mihurko.poniz@ung.si
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Research activity

Katja Mihurko Poniž explores representations of femininity and masculinity in the field of literature and literary studies with an emphasis on Slovene literature. She has published articles on the women’s movement before the Second World War and has integrated digital humanities approaches into literary research.

Research areas and keywords

Slovenian literature, female literary authorship, gender studies, digital humanities, correspondence

Selected publications

Books:

  • Drzno drugačna: Zofka Kveder in podobe ženskosti. Ljubljana: Delta, 2003.
  • Labirinti ljubezni v slovenski književnosti od romantike do II. svetovne vojne. Ljubljana: Sophia, 2008.
  • Evine hčere: konstruiranje ženskosti v slovenskem javnem diskurzi 1848-1902. Nova Gorica: Založba Univerze v Novi Gorici, 2009.
  • Zapisano z njenim peresom: prelomi zgodnjih slovenskih književnic s paradigmo nacionalne literature. Nova Gorica: Založba Univerze v Novi Gorici, 2015.
  • Literarna ustvarjalka v očeh druge_ga. Nova Gorica: Založba Univerze v Novi Gorici, 2016.

Articles:

  • Zofka Kveder as a cultural transmitter. Knjiženstvo : časopis za studije književnosti, roda i kulture, ISSN 2217-7809, 2020, vol. 10, no. 10. https://doi.org/10.18485/knjiz.2020.10.10.4, doi: 10.18485/knjiz.2020.10.10.4.
  • Literary journey from north to south : the reception of Nordic women writers, their books and ideas in the Slovenian literary system. Nora, ISSN 0803-8740, 2019, vol. 27, iss. 1, str. 1-13, doi: 10.1080/08038740.2018.1551245.
  • Der Bruch mit der literarischen Tradition : Weibliche Identitätskonzepte in Zofka Kveders multikulturellem Œuvre. Germanoslavica, ISSN 1210-9029, 2016, jg. 27, nr. 2, str. 37-64.
  • Mihurko Poniž, Katja, Parente-Čapkova, Viola. The new women from the margins. Interlitteraria, ISSN 1406-0701, 2015, vol. 20, no. 2, str. 184-198, doi:10.12697/IL.2015.20.2.15.
  • The representations of Slavic nations in the writings of Josipina Turnograjska. V: Sanz, Amelia (ur.). Women telling nations, (Women writers in history, 1). Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2014, str. 169-190.
  • Gendering the capital : Zofka Kveder’s rhetorical construction of women’s position in the urban topography. Neohelicon, ISSN 0324-4652, 2014, vol. 41, no. 1, str. 63-76
  • Representation and mythologisations of Aleksandrinke in Slovenian literature. In: Milharčič Hladnik, Mirjam (ed.). From Slovenia to Egypt : Aleksandrinke’s trans-Mediterranean domestic workers’ migration and national imagination, (Transkulturelle Perspektiven, Bd. 13). Göttingen: V&R; unipress, 2015, str. 131-155.
  • Gender and narration in the writings of three 19th-century Slovene women : Pavlina Pajk, Luiza Pesjak and Zofka Kveder. In: STEINBRÜGGE, Lieselotte (ed.), VAN DIJK, Suzan (ed.). Narrations genrées : écrivaines dans l’histoire européenne jusqu’au début du XXe siècle, (La République des Lettres, 56). Louvian; Paris; Walpole (MA): Peeters, 2014
  • “Schämen Sie sich nicht, wenn Sie slowenische Marlitt genannt werden!” : die Rezeption deutschsprachiger Prosaistinnen im slowenischen Kulturleben des 19. Jahrhunderts. In: WIEDEMANN, Kerstin (ed.), MÜLLER-ADAMS, Elisa (ed.). Wege aus der Marginalisierung : Geschlecht und Schreibweisen in deutschsprachigen Romanen von Frauen : 1780-1914 = Échapper à la marginalisation : genre et récit dans le roman féminin allemand : 1780-1914. Nancy: Presses Universitaires, Editions Universitaires de Lorraine, cop. 2013, str. 335-356.
  • What do we want? (1900). V: WAYNE, Tiffany K. (ur.). Feminist writings from ancient times to the modern world : a global sourcebook and history. Santa Barbara; Denver; Oxford: Greenwood, 2011, vol. 2, str. 351-353.

Selected projects

  • Researcher in the Slovenian Writers and Imperial Censorship in the Long Nineteenth Century project (1.9.2020-31.8.2023)
  • Researcher in the Collective Memory and Cultural Dynamics research programme group, 1.1.2009-31.12. 2022
  • Researcher in the Slovenian and European Literary Heritage: Fairy Tales in Slovenian Education from Preschool to High School project (1.4.2018-31.3.2020)
  • Researcher in the Unknown Slovene Manuscripts from the 17th and 18th Century project (1.2.2008-30.1.2011)
  • Researcher in the (Re)forming of the memory of the turning points in Slovenian History project (1.5.2010-30.4.2013)
  • Researcher in The role of women’s migrations and migrants in the construction of the Slovene national identity from national to postnational era: comparative Slovenian, European, and global aspects project (1.7.2011-30.6.2014)
  • Researcher in the Multicultural Heritage and the Nation state: The Cases of Prekmurje, Bela Krajina and Primorska project (1.7.2011-30.6.2014)
  • Principle investigator in Travelling Texts 1790-1914: The Transnational Reception Of Women’s Writing At the Fringes of Europe project (1.9.2013-31-8.2016)

CV

Katja Mihurko Poniž was born in Maribor (1972), where she attended primary school and grammar school. She graduated in 1995 from AGRFT with a dissertation on Thomas Bernhard and in 1997 from the Department of Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana with a degree on Slovenian Drama from the Beginnings to the Second World War and from the Department of German Studies at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana with a degree on the works of Elfriede Jelinek. She received her PhD in 2003 with a dissertation on the Prose and Drama of Zofka Kveder: Representations of Femininity in the Bicultural Space of Modernity. From 1997 to 2006 she was employed at the General and Vocational Gymnasium in Ljubljana, where she taught German. Since 2007 she has been employed as a researcher in the field of literary studies at the University of Nova Gorica.

Leadership functions

  • 31.12. 2020 – President of the Association of Women Writers Route
  • 1.12.2020 – Head of the Research Centre for Humanities University of Nova Gorica
  • April 2020 – Chair of the CEEPUS (“Central European Exchange Program for University Studies”) network for Women Writers in History
  • 2019 – Chair of the Working Group DARIAH Women Writers in History
  • 2018 Member of the Commission for electronic libraries and digital humanities of the International Committee of Slavists
  • 2018 Co-leader of the Working Group on Dissemination and Science Communication Manager of the COST Action Distant Reading
  • 1.9. 2011-31.8.2016 Dean of the School of Humanities
  • 2009-2013 Co-leader of Working group Dissemination (with Gillian Dow) and Member of the Management Committee of the COST Action: Women Writers in History. Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture

Awards

  • Zois’s award 2015for the monograph Written with her pen: a deviation of early Slovene female writers from the paradigm of national literature.
  • Zois’s awards are the highest state awards in the field of scientific research and development.
  • Prometej znanosti award 2013
  • Prometej znanosti awards for Excellency in Outreach are conferred yearly by the Slovenian Science Foundation to the researches who in efficient, persuasive and interesting ways communicate their findings to nonacademic audiences.

Bibliography

https://bib.cobiss.net/biblioweb/biblio/si/eng/cris/29625