Magdalena Baran-Szoltys
ORCID iD https://univie.academia.edu/MagdalenaBaranSzo%C5%82tys
University of Vienna, Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), Spitalgasse 2, Hof 1.1, 1090 Wien
Austria

Magdalena Baran-Szołtys is a scholar of literature and culture with a background in German and Slavic Studies working as a postdoctoral researcher (Hertha-Firnberg-fellow, FWF) within the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) and at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. Her postdoctoral project "Stories Of/In Transformation - Narratives of Transformation and Inequality in Post-Socialist Poland" examines the narrative shifts of inequality in transformation processes based on their appearance in literature and public debates.

She was a Visiting Scholar at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, taught German and literature at the University of Sydney and worked at the Institute of 20th and 21st Century Literature at the University of Warsaw. In 2022 she was awarded the Danubius Young Scientist Award by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research.

Her research interests include German, Polish, and Ukrainian literature; narratives of inequality and transformation; travels; memory cultures; postsocialism; Austrian Galicia; and the social and cultural history of East Central Europe.

Selected publications:

2020: Galizien als Archiv. Reisen im postgalizischen Raum in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Vienna University Press at V&R unipress. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/literatur-sprach-und-kulturwissenschaften/sprach-und-literaturwissenschaften/sprachwissenschaft-allgemein/55329/galizien-als-archiv

2020: Traveling to Post-Galicia and Uncovering the Habsburgian Past. In M. Baran-Szołtys & J. Wierzejska (Hrsg.), Continuities and Discontinuities of the Habsburg Legacy in East-Central European Discourses since 1918 (S. 155-173). Vienna University Press at V&R unipress.

2019 (mit J. Wierzejska): Continuities and Discontinuities of the Habsburg Legacy in East-Central European Discourses since 1918. Vienna University Press at V&R unipress.

2019: Gonzo, Ironic Nostalgia, Magical Realism, or, How to Re-Narrate Traumatic Transnational Borderland Stories. Examples from the Twenty-First Century Polish(-German) Literature. Philological Studies. Literary Research [PFLIT] 9(12)/1, 63-80.