Bio

Julia Lewandowska received her PhD in 2016 (summa cum laude) in cultural studies from the University of Warsaw where she is Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”. She is a specialist of the female conventual culture of the Spanish Golden Ages, which she approaches from an interdisciplinary perspective (literary studies, cultural studies, history of religion, philosophy).

Currently she is the principal investigator (PI) of the ministerial research project entitled: The Mother Tongue: Textuality, Authority and Community in the Post-Teresian Reform Female Monasticism (c.1560-1700 ) (2020/39/D/HS2/00902) and a Research Fellow in two international research projects: Fastos, simulacros y saberes en la América Virreinal of the ILLA CCHS CSIC (PI Judith Farré Vidal, PID2020-113841GB-I00) and Prácticas culturales y discurso epistolar de las mujeres españolas de la primera Edad Moderna (BIESES 7) of UNED, Madrid (PIs: María Martos Pérez and Nieves Baranda Leturio, PID2022-140064NB-I00). Since 2021 she is general co-editor of the Brepols Publishers book series Women in Christianity. A Cultural History of Women Religious from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period.

She has been repeatedly a Visiting Research Fellow at the ADHUC. Centro de Investigación Teoría, Género, Sexualidad (Universitat de Barcelona) (2011, 2014, 2019, 2019, 2022; 2023); Instituto de la Lengua, Literatura y Antropología del CCHS of the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid (2021; 2022; 2023); and Instituto de Historia of the same institution (2013).

Her book Escritoras monjas. Autoridad y autoría en la escritura conventual femenina de los Siglos de Oro (Iberoamericana/Vervuert 2019) has been recognised by the Polish Association of Hispanists as the best monograph in cultural studies, history and literature of the biennium 2019-2020 and by the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies AEGS with the honourable mention with the Victoria Urbano Prize for the best critical monograph of 2020.

Lewandowska has participated in more over thirty international conferences and has given more than twenty invited talks and lectures at, among others, the University of Barcelona; Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; Universidad de Alicante; University of Münster, University of Chicago, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, National Spanish Council CSIC; and Polish Academy of Sciences. She is an active member of several international associations such as: European Society of Women for Theological Research (ESWTR); Polish Association of Hispanists (PSH); Association for Gender and Sexualities Studies (AEGS); GEMELA. Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas pre-1800 and Indoctas. Grupo de estudio sobre la investigación y enseñanza de la escritura de mujeres (Universidad de Santiago de Chile).

Her research and teaching interests include issues related to Renaissance and Baroque literary culture, theology, rhetoric and the history of emotions in religious discourses.

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