"Women's Writing On Line"

WWoL is a new international e-journal that specializes in the scholarship in literature in Polish and Russian as well as other Slavic languages

http://womenswriting.fi/online-journal/


The editors of Women’s Writing On-Line are happy to announce that first issue of the journal has Just been Publisher on:
http://womenswriting.fi/online-journal/

The first issue is devoted to Polish women’s writing and Polish feminist scholarship,
Please have a look! We appreciate it if you can distribute the information among everyone you know they may be interested. The journal’s flyer is attached to this email,

On behave of the editors,
Ula Chowaniec

ABOUT THE JOURNAL
The journal is an international cooperation between academic researchers and book and art specialists and enthusiasts. The idea of founding such a journal was born during the international seminar Poland Under Feminist Eyes held in London (November 2008) at UCL School of Slavic and East European Studies, where a group of women’s studies researchers gathered to discuss the role of feminism in contemporary Poland and in Polish literary and cultural history. Several of the speakers were already connected with the teamwork of Urszula Chowaniec, Marja Rytkönen and Kirsi Kurkijärvi at the University of Tampere (2007-2010) where the joint project Women’s Writing: Generation, Body and Transformation in Poland and Russia (www.womenswriting.fi) as well as with the conference on Femininity and Masquerade (2006). This Polish-Finnish initiative was joined, also in 2006, by Ursula Phillips, who organized the seminar in London altogether with Urszula Chowaniec. The seminar was attended by many dedicated and enthusiastic women and men from Poland, Britain and Finland keen to share their research results and ideas.

The MAIN AIM of our annual journal is to popularize academic research on women’s writing, art, film, theatre, cultural history in both Poland and Russia as well as in other countries Eastern and Central Europe. We wish to build an international network of researchers, thinkers and writers as well as to initiate a platform for academic exchange in the form of academic conferences, research seminars and workshop, projects, internet websites, blogs on women’s writing or other feminist concerns in Eastern and Central Europe, which will reach interested readers in all over the world, and contribute especially to building bridges between so-called East and West.

The main LANGUAGE of the journal is English; however, some issues and/or articles in the particular issues may be published in Polish or Russian.