Dr Stanislava Dikova
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Email
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Location
5.602, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
I'm a literary and intellectual historian specialising in twentieth-century British fiction and political thought. I'm particularly interested in the relationship between the novel, capitalism, and democracy; in women's writing and feminist histories of knowledge; in theories of autonomy and sovereignty; in histories of citizenship and immigration; in transnational writing; and, increasingly, in literatures of migration (esp. in connection with the Balkans). I completed my PhD in English Literature at the University of Essex in 2019. My thesis examined Virginia Woolf's engagement with the ideal of self-determination in relation to wider political and aesthetic debates in modernist literature and culture. Following this I was a fixed-term lecturer at Essex (2019) and a postdoctoral research associate at Keele University (2020-2021), contributing to the first scholarly edition of May Sinclair's two volumes of idealist philosophy.
Publications
Journal articles (1)
Dikova, S., (2022). Characterization and the hermeneutics of recognition in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out. Feminist Modernist Studies. 5 (2), 227-241
Books (2)
Dikova, S., Savage, J. and McMahon, W., (2023). Love and the Politics of Intimacy. Bloomsbury Academic. 1501387383. 9781501387388
Dikova, S., McMahon, W. and Savage, J., (2022). Love and the Politics of Care. 1501387642. 9781501387647
Book chapters (3)
Dikova, S., (2024). The Literary Public Sphere in Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day. In: Virginia Woolf and Capitalism. Edinburgh University Press. 203- 223
Dikova, S. and Bowler, R., (2024). Archiving the Intellectual Life: May Sinclair's Workbooks. In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives. Bloomsbury Academic. 71- 80. 1350450553. 9781350450554
Dikova, S., (2020). Radical Hope as Protest. In: Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace. Liverpool University Press. 237- 252
