Helena Kaznowska
- Senior Lecturer in English Literature (Early Modern)
- Email: h.kaznowska@bathspa.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44(0)1225 875896
- School or Department: School of Humanities
- Campus: Newton Park
- Office: NP.CM.204

Personal statement
After completing her AHRC-funded DPhil in English at the University of Oxford in 2018, Helena moved to Santiago, Chile, where she worked as a Research Associate in art history. In 2019 she was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in English Literature (Early Modern) at Bath Spa University.
Her wide-ranging interests embrace early modern poetry, drama and prose; art, crafts and architectural history; epistolary communication and manuscript sources; feminist literature and theory; the history of reading and book history.
During her final year at Oxford she was awarded the Chancellor’s Essay Prize and the Gordon Duff Prize for bibliographic studies.
Academic qualifications
- BA (Hons)
- MA
- DPhil (Oxon)
Professional memberships
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Teaching specialisms
- Early Modern Literature and Material Culture
- Manuscript and Print Cultures; Book History
- Women's Writing; Feminist Writing
Book chapters
‘Women are from Venus: Addressing Women’s Agency with Classical Allegory’, in More than Merely Passive: Addressing the Early Modern Audience, ed. John Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives (Routledge, 2021)
Research and academic outputs
Stories between storeys: the uses of stairs to gain domestic control
article
Kaznowska, H (2020) 'Stories between storeys: the uses of stairs to gain domestic control.' Early Modern Literary Studies, 29. ISSN 1201-2459