Dr. Justyna Kostkowska
Professor
Departments / Programs
Degree Information
- PHD, University of Delaware (1995)
- MA, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University (1986)
Areas of Expertise
- British and American Female Modernist Writers
- Jeannette Winterson
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Century women writers
- Virginia Woolf
- Wislawa Szymborska
Biography
A native of Poland, Dr. Kostkowska teaches courses in 20th Century British literature and women writers. Her areas of specialization include Virginia Woolf, British and American female modernist writers, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century women writers, Jeanette Winterson, Wislawa Szymborska. She is the author of Virginia Woolf's Experiment in Genre and Politics 1926-1931: Visioning and Versioning The Waves(Mellen 2005), and working on a new book entitled Ecocriticism and...
Read More »A native of Poland, Dr. Kostkowska teaches courses in 20th Century British literature and women writers. Her areas of specialization include Virginia Woolf, British and American female modernist writers, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century women writers, Jeanette Winterson, Wislawa Szymborska. She is the author of Virginia Woolf's Experiment in Genre and Politics 1926-1931: Visioning and Versioning The Waves(Mellen 2005), and working on a new book entitled Ecocriticism and Women Writers: Environmentalist Poetics of Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith,forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.
Publications
- Kostkowska, Justyna. Ecocriticism and Women Writers: Environmentalist Poetics of Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson and Ali Smith. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 .
- ___. Virginia Woolf's Experiment in Genre and Politics 1926-1931: Visioning and Versioning The Waves. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.
