
Eva Eglaja-KristsoneInstitute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia · Department of Literature
Eva Eglaja-Kristsone
PhD
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Areas of interest and research: Baltic Literature, Literary Anthropology, Gender Studies, Women Writing, Autobiographical Studies, Cold War Studies, and Digital Humanities.
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June 2021 - present
Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia
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This paper aims to shed light on the joint careers of married couples, focusing on the often overlooked and extensive work performed by married women in support of their husbands’
careers, particularly through the lens of the pastor’s wife. Despite the significant role they play,clergymen’s wives have remained an understudied and marginalised popul...
This article examines the ways in which distant reading, as a facet of the digital turn in the humanities, has affected the study of literature, with particular attention to the ways the digital turn has impacted the examination of authorship, genre, and style. In the process, it reflects on the ways in which distant reading developed both as a con...
The aim of this article is to broaden feminist scholarship on women writers by exploring the relationship between women’s writing, intimacy, vulnerability and censorship, and the rediscovering and canonization of women’s writing in Latvian literary culture. In the early twentieth century, intimacy and motherhood as a source of vulnerability in wome...
This article aims to name and place women as active participants in foreign affairs and to offer a case study through the research of autobiographical documents. The Latvian Foreign Service from 1919 to 1940 had 575 paid women employees in civil service positions, both at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in diplomatic and consular missions abroa...
The aim of the article is to explore the use of digital mapping tools in the study of history
of women’s writing. Considering that space is never neutral and women are positioned in the world differently than men, women’s relationship to space also differs. Applying digital mapping tools (Google Maps, GIS) to the corpus of 110 prose texts (sketches...
Keywords: children’s poetry, public engagement, reading aloud, recording of poetry, Veidenbaums The development of public engagement technologies has provided new ways of ensuring societal participation. Public engagement events developed by various institutions provide ways to combine learning about cultural heritage with individual participants....
During the nineteenth century, Latvian society experienced significant social and cultural changes due to a transition from agrarian to modern society and the emergence of a Latvian national culture. Reading, previously a mostly religious and practical activity, took new forms among the Latvian middle class and steadily began to be depicted as a da...
To describe the exilic condition, many scholars have made use of the concept of liminality. Being neither here (Great Britain as a place of exile) nor there (Latvian exile society as a substitute of a nation) characterizes the life of one of the best Latvian existentialist prose writers – Guntis Zariņš (1926–1965). In Zariņš’ life and work he negot...