Dr. Justyna Kostkowska
Associate Professor

Member, Graduate Faculty

Office: PH 331; Phone/Voice Mail: 898-2778

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 has translated works of Polish contemporary poets into English. She is writing a book on Virginia Woolf.

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Conference Presentations

• “Scissors and Silks,” “Flowers and Trees,” and “Geraniums Ruined by the War”: Virginia Woolf's Ecological Critique of Science in Mrs.Dalloway” at the 13 Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Smith College, MA, June 5-8, 2003.
• “Across Generations: Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, and Jeanette Winterson Think Through Their Virginia Woolf” at the Twelfth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Sonoma State University Rohnert Park, CA, June 6-9, 2002.
• “The Text, The Body, and the Journey of Self-Discovery, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body at the Eleventh Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, University of Bangor, Wales, June 13-16, 2001.
• “Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson: Uniting the Modern with the Postmodern,” at the “Women and Power” conference, MTSU, Murfreesboro, March 8-10, 2001.
• “Percival as The Waves’ Other Androgyne,” at the Tenth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, June 8-11, 2000.
• “Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body as a Palimpsest on V.  Woolf’s Orlando, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Waves, at the Ninth Annual V. Woolf Conference, University of Delaware, Newark, June 10-13, 1999.
• “Facets of the Image Flicker: the Letters of Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth and Vita Sackville-West as Catalysts for the Poetic Language of The Waves” at the Eighth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, St. Louis University, St. Louis, June 1998.
• “The Not-So-‘Dumb’ Letters: Language of Intimacy in the Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf,” at the Seventh Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, June 1997.
• “Vita and Virginia,” at “Women and Power,” Women’s Studies Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, February 1997.