Dr. Manca G. Renko
Dr. Manca G. Renko
Affiliated Researcher
Manca G. Renko earned her doctorate with a dissertation on Russia and the importance of Slavic reciprocity in the northern Adriatic between 1848 and 1914 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska, Slovenia in 2017. Joining the ERC EIRENE project at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana in 2019, she delved into researching women intellectuals in post-war transitions from a transnational perspective, covering Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, and Italy. In the fall of 2023, she became a member of the ERC HERESSEE project team. She is especially interested in different concepts of work and intellectual labor and researches this topic at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts. Beyond her academic and research roles, she is also active as an editor and essayist, focusing on literature, theory, and popular culture. She served as the artistic director of the international literary festival Fabula from 2016 to 2020. In 2022 she assumed the role of president of the Council of the Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia. Since 2021, she has held the position of editor-in-chief of the magazine Cukr, published by the Museum and Galleries of the City of Ljubljana (MGML). In 2024 she founded a micro indie publishing house called No! Press.
Selected Publications
- Renko, Manca G. “’Uninvited, History Entered Our Lives’ The post-war transitions in autobiographical perspective”. In Dacoromania litteraria 10, no. (2023): 18-42. https://doi.org/10.33993/drl.2023.10.18.42.
- Renko, Manca G. “The Woman Without Qualities? The Case of Alice Schalek, Intellectual Labour and Women Intellectuals.” In Acta Histriae 29, no. 4 (2021): 921-946. https://doi.org/10.19233/AH.2021.36.
- Renko, Manca G., et. al. “Suffrage, democracy and citizenship.” In Socialist women and the Great War, 1914-21: protest, revolution and commemoration, edited by Corinne Painter, Ingrid Sharp, Matthew Stibbe, 99-132. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. DOI:10.5040/9781350110373.
Focus in the HERESSEE Project
- Women from Yugoslavia from the interwar period onwards