Document
Yasna Bozhkova
Election
Position
Name
Yasna Bozhkova
Candidate statement
Associate Professor, Université Paris Nanterre, France
I am Associate Professor of American Literature at Université Paris Nanterre, France. My research focuses on intertextual, intermedial and transnational poetics from modernism to the present. My first monograph, Between Worlds: Mina Loy’s Aesthetic Itineraries, was published in 2022 in Clemson UP’s series “Seminal Modernisms”. I am the co-editor of The Wanderings of Modernism: Errancy, Identity, and Aesthetics in Interwar Modernist Literature and a special issue on “Modernist Transmissions” (forthcoming). I have published articles and book chapters on modernist and contemporary poetry, fiction, and avant-garde experimentation across the arts. Being a Bulgarian-born scholar working on American literature in France has contributed to shaping my approach to modernism, prompting an interest in transnational figures like Loy, Djuna Barnes, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Hope Mirrlees, and Claude McKay. I would be honored to serve as International Relations Chair of the MSA. Since 2021, I have been a board member of the French Society for Modernist Studies (SEM). I regularly participate in MSA conferences and other modernist events, and I have represented the SEM in promoting international collaborations with other modernist organizations like the MSA, BAMS, MSIA and AMSN, so I would be well-suited to promote MSA membership and partnerships outside the USA.
I am Associate Professor of American Literature at Université Paris Nanterre, France. My research focuses on intertextual, intermedial and transnational poetics from modernism to the present. My first monograph, Between Worlds: Mina Loy’s Aesthetic Itineraries, was published in 2022 in Clemson UP’s series “Seminal Modernisms”. I am the co-editor of The Wanderings of Modernism: Errancy, Identity, and Aesthetics in Interwar Modernist Literature and a special issue on “Modernist Transmissions” (forthcoming). I have published articles and book chapters on modernist and contemporary poetry, fiction, and avant-garde experimentation across the arts. Being a Bulgarian-born scholar working on American literature in France has contributed to shaping my approach to modernism, prompting an interest in transnational figures like Loy, Djuna Barnes, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Hope Mirrlees, and Claude McKay. I would be honored to serve as International Relations Chair of the MSA. Since 2021, I have been a board member of the French Society for Modernist Studies (SEM). I regularly participate in MSA conferences and other modernist events, and I have represented the SEM in promoting international collaborations with other modernist organizations like the MSA, BAMS, MSIA and AMSN, so I would be well-suited to promote MSA membership and partnerships outside the USA.
Candidate CV