Iva Dimovska (9F1F-4713-F00C)

Curriculum Vitae

Iva Dimovska

Iva Dimovska is an ERA Fellow under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (Horizon Europe) at the Center for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS). At CETAPS, she is working on the project “Utopias in Times of Crisis: Irish Modernist Literature in the 1920s and 1930s” (UT-MOLI). She holds a PhD (2021) in Comparative Gender Studies from Central European University (Vienna). Her PhD thesis was titled "Queer(ing) Time in Modernism and How to Read it: James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's The Waves." From 2022 to 2025, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on the project "Democracy in East Central European Utopianism" based at the Democracy Institute at Central European University in Budapest, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. She has taught courses in modernist literature, feminism and queer theory. Iva's research interests include: modernist literature, utopia and utopianism, 19th and 20th century literature, gender studies and feminism, and queer theory. She is a member of the steering committee of the Utopian Studies Society Europe, where starting from 2025, she also holds the position of an Early Career Research Officer.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Iva Dimovska

Citation names

Dimovska, Iva

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9F1F-4713-F00C
ORCID iD: 0009-0007-0271-2393

Websites

https://www.cetaps.com/project/utopias-in-times-of-crisis-irish-modernist-literature-in-the-1920s-and-1930s-ut-moli/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Languages and Literatures

Education

	Degree	Classification
2015/09/01 - 2021/09/16 Concluded	PhD in Comparative Gender Studies (Doctor of Philosophy) Major in Gender Studies Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria "Queer(ing) Time in Modernism and How to Read it: James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's The Waves" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/09/01 - 2015/06/01 Concluded	Master of Arts in Critcal Gender Studies (Master) Major in Gender Studies Central European University - Budapest Campus, Hungary "Queering Time through the Myth of the Fall in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and Marcel Proust’s Sodom and Gomorrah " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/01/01 - 2014/02/16 Concluded	Master of Arts in General and Comparative Literature (Master) Major in General and Comparative Literature Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje Department of General and Comparative Literature, Macedonia "Literary Canon and Religious Identity: Aspects of Demythologization in the novel Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008/09/15 - 2012/09/15 Concluded	Bachelor of Arts in General and Comparative Literature (Bachelor) Major in General and Comparative Literature Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje Department of General and Comparative Literature, Macedonia

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2025/11/01 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/01/09 - 2025/08/31	Postdoc (Research)	Central European University Democracy Institute, Hungary
	Central European University Democracy Institute, Hungary
2019/11/01 - 2020/01/30	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Switzerland
	Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Switzerland
2017/09/01 - 2019/10/31	Research Assistant (Research)	Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria
	Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria
2016/11 - 2017/07	Visiting Researcher (Research)	University College Dublin School of Languages and Literature, Ireland
	University College Dublin School of Languages and Literature, Ireland

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/02 - 2023/02	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Angol-Amerikai Intézet, Hungary
	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Angol-Amerikai Intézet, Hungary
2021/09 - 2022/02	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria
	Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria
2019/01 - 2019/04	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria
	Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria
2017/09 - 2017/12	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria
	Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/01/09 - 2025/08/31	Democracy in East Central European utopianism Individual Project: Utopia and Nationalism in the formation of Socialist Yugoslavia Post-doc Fellow Central European University Democracy Institute, Hungary	Gerda Henkel Stiftung Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2025/11/01 - 2027/10/31	Utopias in Times of Crisis: Irish Modernist Literature in the 1920s and 1930s (UT-MOLI) 101244207 Principal investigator Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	European Research Executive Agency Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Dimovska, Iva. "Utopia and Nationalism in Prewar Yugoslavia". In Utopia and Democracy: Theories, Practices, Fictions, 177-197. Switzerland, 2025. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-89913-3_10 Dimovska, Iva. "Engaging with Queer Foucault: The Power of Resistance as a Subversive Appropriation". In Engaging Foucault, Volume 2, edited by M. Ivkovic; D. Prodanovic; G. Pudar, 114-126. Belgrade, Serbia: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, 2016. Published
Edited book	Dimovska, Iva; Czigányik, Zsolt, ed. Utopia and Democracy: Theories, Practices, Fictions. Switzerland: Springer Nature, Palgrave Macmillan. 2025. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-89913-3 • Editor
Encyclopedia entry	Dimovska, Iva. "Queer Time". In Handbook of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe. Central European University Press and Amsterdam Press, 2026. Submitted
Journal article	Dimovska, Iva. "Queer(ing) Molly: Time, Queer Sexuality and Identity in ‘Penelope'". Joyce Studies Annual 2026-2027 1 (2026): https://www.fordham.edu/academics/departments/english/faculty/faculty-publications/academic-journals/joyce-studies-annual/. Submitted Dimovska, Iva. "Sexual “Non-Occurrence”: Celibacy in Elizabeth Bowen’s Interwar Fiction". Humanities, Special Issue "Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing" 15 51 (2026): Open access • Submitted Dimovska, Iva. "Utopian Imaginaries, 23rd Utopian Studies Society/Europe Annual Conference, Babe¿-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 4–7, 2023". Utopian Studies (2024): https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.35.2-3.0776. Published • 10.5325/utopianstudies.35.2-3.0776 Dimovska, Iva. "Queering Time through The Myth of the Fall in Marcel Proust’s Sodom and Gommorah". Journal of Contemporary Philology Ss Cyril and Methodius University B Koneski Faculty of Philology (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.37834/jcp21410093d. Published • 10.37834/jcp21410093d Dimovska, Iva. "Joyce in Rome". "News" in James Joyce Broadsheet 103 (2016): 4-4. Published Dimovska, Iva. "The 2015 Zürich James Joyce Foundation Workshop, Zürich Switzerland, August 2–9, 2015: Touring the No Timelike Absolent". James Joyce Literary Supplement 29 2 (2015): 20-20. Published
Journal issue	Dimovska, Iva; Czigányik, Zsolt; Károly Pintér ; Ildikó Limpár. "Utopia and Democracy". Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS) 32 1 (2026): https://reference-global.com/journal/HJEAS. Submitted • Invited editor
Thesis / Dissertation	"Queer(ing) Time in High Modernism and How to Read it: James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's The Waves". PhD, Central European University Department of Gender Studies, 2021. https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/dimovska_iva.htm#:~:text=Author,and%20Virginia%20Woolf's%20The%20Waves.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/12/04	The modernist fascination with time: “Penelope,” temporality and queer sexuality	Relational Forms X – 1925, 2025: Which Twenties? Empathy and Estrangement Across Time in Literature and the Arts Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2025/07/03	Rewriting the Nation: Feminist Utopias and Dystopias in Yugoslav Socialism	25th conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe: Ageing, Intergenerational Relationships and Utopia University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
2025/05/24	From Socialism to Utopia: Gender and Nationalism in Post-1960s Yugoslav Writings	29th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) Harriman Institute and Columbia University, New York City (New York City, United States)
2024/09/14	The Barbarian and The Genius: The Role of Utopia in Shaping Yugoslav Avant-Gardes in Times of War	The Avant-Garde and War. 9th European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) Conference Jagiellonian University Krakow (Krakow, Poland)
2024/09/10	Seminar on Queer Time	Central European University, Gender Studies Department (Vienna, Austria)
2024/07/04	Snow and Ice: Critiques of Late Yugoslav Socialism in Apocalyptic and Dystopian Satires	Utopia and Democracy. Utopian Studies Society/Europe 2024 Annual Conference Central European University, Democracy Institute (Budapest, Hungary)
2024/06/18	James Joyce and Eastern/Central Europe: A Utopian Endeavor?	Across the Waters. XXIX International James Joyce Symposium. University of Glasgow University of Glasgow (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
2024/06/06	Roundtable discussion: Utopian Thinking and the Transformation of Environment	RECET History and Social Sciences Festival “Green Transformations” Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
2024/04/07	Utopia and Nationalism in the Formation of Socialist Yugoslavia	British Association for Slavonic and East European (BASEES) Annual Conference 2024 Robinson College, Cambridge University (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2023/07/06	The Barbarian and The Genius: National(ist) and Utopian Imaginaries	Utopian Imaginaries. Utopian Studies Society/Europe 2023 Annual Conference Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
2023/05/23	Utopia and Democracy in East Central European Utopianism (Invited Talk with Zsolt Cziganyik)	Jeno Szucs Lecture Series Central European University, Democracy Institute (Budapest, Hungary)
2023/04/27	Barbarians and Geniuses, or the Democratic Potentials of a Balkan Utopia	Utopia and Democracy Workshop Central European University, Democracy Institute (Budapest, Hungary)
2022/06/12	Ulysses and Jacobs’s Room: Queering the Illegible as a Site of Crisis	James Joyce ‘Ulysses’: 1922–2022. XXVIII International James Joyce Symposium Trinity University (Dublin, Ireland)
2019/12/03	Lecture: “its just like yesterday to me”: Queering ‘Penelope’	Zurich James Joyce Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland)
2018/11/10	Queering Woolf’s Modernist Times	Virginia Woolf and the Writing of History. International Conference University of Rouen (Rouen, France)
2018/06/15	James Joyce and the Modernist Novel	The Art of James Joyce. XXVI International James Joyce Symposium University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium)
2016/09/30	James Joyce and Irish Modernist Times	Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities. International Conference University of Vienna, Department of English and American Studies (Vienna, Austria)
2016/06/17	In Search of Queer Past: James Joyce and the Queer Passage of Time	Anniversary Joyce. XXV International James Joyce Symposium, University of London University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2016/02/03	The Aesthetics of Failure: James Joyce and the Modernist Anti-novel	Joyce’s Fiction and the New Rise of the Novel. The X James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome James Joyce Italian Foundation” Conference in Rome, Università di Roma Tre (Rome, Italy)
2015/09/07	Queering Time through the Myth of the Fall in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and Marcel Proust’s Sodom and Gomorrah	Time and Culture. 2015 Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History University of Bucharest (Bucharest, Romania)
2015/08/08	Queering Time through the Myth of the Fall in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake	"Touring the No Timelike Absolent” – Time in the works of James Joyce. International Workshop Zurich James Joyce Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland)
2014/12/06	Engaging With Queer Foucault: The Power of Resistance as a Subversive Appropriation	Engaging Foucault: International Conference University of Belgrade. Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (Belgrade, Serbia)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/07/03 - 2024/07/05	Co-organizer of "Utopia and Democracy", the 2024 Annual Conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe, hosted at the Central European University's Democracy Institute, Budapest. (2024/07/03 - 2024/07/05) Conference (Co-organisor)	Central European University Democracy Institute, Hungary
2023/04/27 - 2023/04/28	Co-organizer of the 2023 workshop "Utopia and Democracy" held at Central European University's Democracy Institute. (2023/04/27 - 2023/04/28) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Central European University Democracy Institute, Hungary
2018/05/03 - 2018/05/05	Co-organizer of the 2018 conference "In/Equalities: Narrative & Critique, Resistance and Solidarity", Graduate Conference in Gender Studies, Department of Gender Studies, CEU, Budapest. (2018/05/03 - 2018/05/05) Conference (Co-organisor)	Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2017/07/30 - 2017/08/08	Summer Course in Narrative Studies Seminar	Summer Course in Narrative Studies Aarhus Universitet Afdeling for Engelsk, Denmark
2017/07/03 - 2017/07/08	The 2017 Dublin Joyce School Seminar	The 2017 Dublin Joyce School University College Dublin School of Languages and Literature, Ireland
2017/03/24 - 2017/03/25	XI Annual Feminist Theory Workshop in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies Workshop	Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, United States
2015/06/28 - 2015/07/04	The 2015 Trieste Joyce School Seminar	The 2015 Trieste Joyce School Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Elected member of the steering committee of the Utopian Studies Society Europe and the Early Career Research Officer (ECR) Member	Utopian Studies Society/Europe , United Kingdom
2022 - Current	Elected member of the executive board of PrivatePrint Publishing House and Studio, based in Skopje, North Macedonia and Ljubljana/Slovenia.	PrivatePrint Publishing House and Studio, Macedonia

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2019 - Current	Collaborator (Translator and Proofreader) and Editor at PrivatePrint Publishing House and Studio	PrivatePrint Publishing House and Studio, Macedonia

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/09 - 2023/02	1922: Modernism, Narrative, Gender	(Master)	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Angol-Amerikai Intézet, Hungary
2022/02 - 2022/06	Gender in Modern and Contemporary Fiction	(Bachelor (1st cycle))	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Angol-Amerikai Intézet, Hungary
2021/09 - 2022/02	Queer Modernisms	Master of Arts in Gender Studies (Master)	Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria
2019/01 - 2019/04	Assistant Professor, Performing Arts, Research, and the Public	Master of Arts in Gender Studies (Master)	Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria
2017/09 - 2017/12	Assistant Professor, Introduction to Queer Theory	Master of Arts in Gender Studies (Master)	Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2026/02/24	Interview with Zsolt Czigányik and Iva Dimovska on utopia and democracy, and their 2025 edited volume "Utopia and Democracy: Theories, Practices, Fictions" published by Palgrave Macmillan and based on their project "Democracy in East Central European utopianism" which was funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and was realized at Central European University’s Democracy Institute in Budapest.	L.I.S.A. Wissenschaftsportal Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Distinctions

Award

2019	CEU Doctoral Research Support Grant Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria
2019	Award for Advanced Doctoral Students Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria
2019	The Friends of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation Scholarship Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Switzerland
2017	Duke University’s Feminist Theory Workshop in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies - Travel Award Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, United States

Title

2021	Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Gender Studies - Graduated with Distinction Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria
2015	Master of Arts (Top Honors) in Critical Gender Studies Central European University Department of Gender Studies, Austria

Other distinction

2018	Certificate for Excellence in Teaching in Higher Education for Doctoral Students Central European University Center for Teaching and Learning, Austria