Kalina Janeva – Chair of English Literature including the Literatures of the Middle Ages

Kalina Janeva, M.A.

PhD Candidate

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Kalina Janeva is a PhD candidate in English and American Studies. In her project she examines how women communicated female food refusal or restraint in nonfiction prose texts in English from the early modern to the Victorian periods.

Research interests:

Women’s Writing
Non-Canonical Texts
History of Female Food Restraint
Early Modern Literature
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Romantic and Victorian Literature
Literary Modernism
Diachronic and Comparative Literary Studies
Music and Literature
Literary Translation

Employment:

Since 04/2021-	Research Assistant Department of English and American Studies \| University of Regensburg
04/2022-10/2022	Editorial Intern New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession https://escholarship.org/uc/ncs_pedagogyandprofession
08/2021-10/2022	Research Assistant University College Freiburg EPICUR
03/2017-03/2021	Research Assistant English Department \| University of Freiburg
11/2019-12/2020	Research Assistant SFB 1015 Muße \| University of Freiburg
2016	EFL Teacher for Italian speakers Istituto Dante Alighieri Skopje
2016	External Translator School of Journalism and Public Relations, Institute of Communications – Skopje
2014-2016	External Translator Political Thought (Magazine for Political and Societal Issues) Konrad-Andenauer-Stiftung – Skopje
08/2015-12/2015	Macedonian Language and Culture Facilitator Peace Corps Macedonia
07/2013	Internal Translator Magor Publishing – Skopje, Macedonia
2013	External Audiovisual Translator SDI Media (www.sdimedia.com)
2010	External Audiovisual Translator Final Fiction – Skopje, Macedonia
2007-2009	External Translator Identities, Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture Euro Balkan Institute– Skopje, Macedonia
2006-2009	External Translator / Text editor Skopje
09/2007-06/2008	EFL Teacher Centre for foreign Languages – Skopje, Macedonia
04/2007-06/2007	Internal Translator Education Development Centre – Skopje, Macedonia USAID E-Schools Project
09/2004-06/2005	EFL Teacher Hello Language School – Skopje, Macedonia
11/2003-06/2004	EFL Teacher NOVA Language Institute – Skopje, Macedonia

Education:

Since 12/2020-	PhD Candidate, English and American Studies Working Title: “Female Food Refusal in Women’s Prose from the Early Modern to the Victorian Periods” Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen English Department \| University of Freiburg State Graduate Funding Baden-Württemberg Scholarship (since 1.11.2022)
10/2016-09/2020	MA English Literatures and Literary Theory English Department \| University of Freiburg Master’s thesis: “Riffing on the Page: Blues and Jazz as Political Speech in Interwar Modernist Writing” Alumni Prize Recipient 2021
01/2010	BA English Language and Literature (major), Italian Language and Literature (minor) Blaže Koneski Faculty Philology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University – Skopje Certificate of Praise for Outstanding Results in the course of the Studies 2010

List of Publications

Academic Publications

“‘I Will Send to Them Women’: Josephine Butler’s Catharine of Siena (1878), Ethical Fasting, and Victorian Feminist Medievalism”. Studies in Medievalism XXXIV (forthcoming, May 2025)
with Benjamin Kohlmann (trans.), “Karl August Varnhagen von Ense: In the Spirit oft he Wanderers”. PMLA 138.1 (January 2023): 105-9.

Select Literary Translations

Али, Моника. Брик Лејн [Ali, Brick Lane.] Скопје: Антолог, 2014. Funded by EACEA Culture Programme (2007-2013)
Банделе, Бији. Улица [Bandele, The Street]. Скопје: ИЛИ-ИЛИ, 2010. Funded by EACEA Culture Programme (2007-2013)
Бергер, Џон. Џ. [Berger, G.]. Скопје: Магор, 2006.
Велш, Ирвин. Ѓубре [Welsh, Filth]. Скопје: ИЛИ-ИЛИ, 2011. Funded by EACEA Culture Programme (2007-2013)
Веронези, Сандро. Тивок хаос [Veronesi, Caos calmo]. Скопје: ИЛИ-ИЛИ, 2016. Funded by the Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020)
Голдони, Карло. Гостилничарката Мирандолина [Goldoni, Carlo. La locandiera]. Скопје: ТРИ, Дел Џудиче, Даниеле. Вимблдонскиот стадион [Del Giudice, Daniele. Lo stadio di Wimbledon]. Скопје: ИЛИ-ИЛИ, 2013.
Дел Џудиче, Даниеле. Подвижен хоризонт [Del Giudice, Orizzonte mobile]. Скопје: ТРИ, 2015.Funded by the Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020)
Елиот, Т. С. Избор есеи [Eliot, Thomas Selected Essays]. Скопје: КСЦ, 2013.
Јејтс, Вилијам Батлер. Автобиографии [Yeats, Willam Autobiographies]. Скопје: КСЦ, 2015.
Капело, Луиџи. Оваа слобода [Cappello, Pierluigi. Questa libertà]. Скопје: Бата Прес, 2016. Funded by the Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020)
Курејши, Ханиф. Нешто да ти кажам [Kureishi, Hanif. Something to Tell You]. Скопје: ИЛИ-ИЛИ, Funded by EACEA Culture Programme (2007-2013)
Курејши, Ханиф. Последниот збор [Kureishi, The Last Word]. Скопје: ИЛИ-ИЛИ, 2015. Funded by the Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020)
Мејлер, Норман. Голи и мртви [Mailer, Norman. The Naked and the Dead]. Скопје: КСЦ, О’ Брајан, Флан. Долкиската архива [O’Brien, Flann. The Dalkey Archive]. Скопје: Антолог, 2015. Funded by the Ireland Literature Exchange
Фаулс, Џон. Колектор [Fowles, The Collector]. Скопје: ИЛИ-ИЛИ, 2008.
Фаулс, Џон. Црвец [Fowles, John. A Maggot]. Скопје: ИЛИ-ИЛИ, 2014. Funded by EACEA Culture Programme
Форна, Амината. Сеќавање на љубовта [Forna, The Memory of Love]. Скопје: Антолог, 2015. Funded by the Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020)
Џордано, Паоло. Црна и сребрена [Giordano, Il nero e l’argento]. Скопје: Паблишер, 2016. Funded by the Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020)
Џордано, Паоло. Човековото тело [Giordano, Paolo. Il corpo umano]. Скопје: ТРИ, 2014. Funded by EACEA Culture Programme (2007-2013)

Conference Papers

‘“She was very sparing in her diet”: Female Food Restraint and the Politics of Victorian Women’s Catholic Biography’. Passau/Regensburg Research Colloquium (16-17.05.2024, Passau/Regensburg)
‘Women’s Speaking (Un)Justified: Elizabeth Cary’s Life and The Tragedy of Mariam’. Guest Talk at the Seminar ‘Women Behaving Badly: Portrayals of Unruly Women in English Literary History’ (December 2023, Freiburg).
“’Thy voyce through her’: Fasting and Embodied Speech in the Spiritual Narratives of Anna Trapnel (1654), Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers (1662–63). Early Modern Women on Politics and Ethics (5-7.10.2023, Gothenburg, Sweden).
“‘I Will Send to Them Women’: Gender, Food Abstinence, and Public Action in Josephine Butler’s Catharine of Siena: A Biography (1878)”. International Workshop: Medieval Identities – (Re)Constructing the Self and the Other (23.05.2023, Freiburg).
“Food Refusal and Possession in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Spiritual Narratives: Anna Trapnel and Hannah Allen”. Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America (30.11- 12.2022, online).
“Melophrasis and Beyond: Anthony Burgess’s Mozart and the Wolf Gang (1991)”. Outside the Frame of Theory Conference (23-24.06.2017, Freiburg).
“Shakespeare and Verdi: An Interart Dialogue”. English Studies at the Interface of Disciplined: Research and Practice Conference (11-13.03.2016, Skopje, Macedonia).
“Embracing Babel: On the Best Young Translator Competition”. Third IAPTI International Conference (5-6.09. 2015, Bordeaux, France).
“Transformation, Translation and Transposition of Cultural Identities: Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century Western Music”. (11-12.09.2014, Lisbon, Portugal).

Memberships:

Macedonian Association of Translators and Interpreters (MATA)
Delegate to the European Council of Literary Translators’ Association (CEATL)
For MATA, Organising Committee Member for the Babylon Best Young Translator Prize (2013-2016)

Teaching:

Winter term 2021/2022

Topics in European Identities: Memories, Images, Utopias. University College Freiburg. With Kerstin Fest, Thierry di Costanzo, Grigoris Paschalidis und Allard den Dulk

Summer term 2019

Tutorial, “Introduction to Literary Studies”

Winter term 2018/2019

Tutorial, “Survey of English Literature I, from the Middle Ages to the 18^th Century”

Summer term 2018

Tutorial, “Introduction to Literary Studies”