Aleksandra Tobiasz

Aleksandra Tobiasz holds a double master’s degree in history and Latin American studies from the University of Lodz, Poland. She was awarded her doctorate by the Department of History and Civilisation at the European University Institute in Florence. She is currently employed at the Institute of Civilisation and Culture in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She participated in the Global Teaching Fellowship Program in Cluj Napoca, Romania and received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. She is interested in geopoetics and literary Central Europe with focus on poetics of particular writers and their transregional self-identifications shaped in relation to shifting historical situations and cultural contexts. She is a member of the international Egodocumental Research Group. She has published articles about Witold Gombrowicz, Vladimir Bartol, Stefan Zweig, Václav Havel, Egon Bondy, Ivan Diviš and on concepts of Central Europe.

List of the most recent publications:

• Tobiasz, Aleksandra. “From Epicureanism to Stoicism–Central European literary responses to History of the twentieth century and exile (Sándor Márai, Joseph Roth and Stefan Zweig).” European Journal of Life Writing, vol 14, (2025), 73-103, https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.14.41049
• Tobiasz, Aleksandra. “Between Central European burden of history and Argentinean ‘lightness of being’ – Witold Gombrowicz’s representations of time in diaristic practice.” Elective Affinities: Rethinking Entanglements between Latin America and East Central Europe, edited by Agnieszka Helena Hudzik, Joanna M. Moszczyńska, Jorge Estrada and Patricia A. Gwozdz (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024), 141-166, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111247861-008/html
• Tobiasz, Aleksandra. “‘Reisen ist Rast in der Unruhe der Welt’: Stefan Zweig as homo viator”, in Austrian Travel Writing, edited by Florian Krobb and Caitriona Leahy. Austrian Studies, vol. 31 (2023), 121–38, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/919427
• Tobiasz, Aleksandra. “‘Between the East and the West’ Vladimir Bartol’s self-identification between Central European Ljubljana and Mediterranean Trieste (1946–1956).” Primerjalna književnost, vol. 46, issue 3 (2023), 41-59; https://ojs-gr.zrc-sazu.si/primerjalna_knjizevnost/article/view/9281/8715
• Tobiasz, Aleksandra. “From geopolitics and regional identity to geopoetics and self-identification – a trajectory of conceptualization of Central Europe?” Revista Estudos do Século XX (December 2023), 77-96; https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/estudossecxx/article/view/12929/9565