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Magdalena Baran-Szołtys is a Research Fellow and academic specializing in comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of Vienna's Department of Contemporary History. Her current Hertha-Firnberg Fellowship (2021-2024) supports research on post-socialist Poland's literary narratives of transformation and inequality. She holds a PhD from the University of Vienna's Austrian Galicia Doctoral Program (2018), focusing on Galician archival narratives in German and Polish literature post-1989.
- Affiliations: Research Cluster RECET, Mobile Cultures & Societies Platform, Jagiellonian University, University of Wrocław, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
- Grants: FWF-funded projects, Poland's National Science Centre (SONATA 14)
Her research explores spatial narratives, memory politics, and Habsburg legacies in Eastern Europe, emphasizing how literature reflects socio-political transformations. Key interests include Galician identity, postcolonial geographies, and transnational memory.
Selected achievements include monographs on Galician archives and edited volumes on Habsburg heritage. Awards include Vienna University's Graduation Fellowship and Literar-Mechana Fellowship.
Her work bridges literary analysis with historical inquiry, analyzing texts from 1989 to present to uncover evolving narratives of inequality in post-socialist contexts.
