Dr. Nataliia Voloshkova

Kazimierz Wielki University and Oxford Brookes University

Representations of Urban Sociability in Odesa in Early 19th-Century British Travel Accounts

Biography

Dr. Nataliia Voloshkova is associate professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She is a Visiting Researcher in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University (2022-2024). Dr. Voloshkova is a section editor in the research project “Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online” (EMCO, https:// https://emco.swansea.ac.uk/home/), which aims to prepare a fully annotated digital edition of Elizabeth Robinson Montagu’s correspondence. She is the Vice-President of the Ukrainian Society for the Eighteenth-Century Studies. Dr. Voloshkova received her PhD from Donetsk National University, Ukraine in 2011. In 2015, she got a research fellowship from the John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester University. Before 24 February 2022, she lived in Kyiv and worked at Drahomanov National Pedagogical University.

Nataliia Voloshkova is the author of Bluestockings and Travel Accounts: Reading, Writing and Collecting (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and a number of publications about British travelogues and women’s life writing. Her research interests focus on letter- and diary-writing by British women intellectuals as well as on British travel accounts about Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Her recent articles are Letters, Poems, Flowers, and Bluestocking Friendship: Mary Hamilton’s Collage-Biography of Mary Delany (The Review of English Studies, 2023) and Writing Travelogues in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Story behind Mary Holderness’s Travel Account of Journeying from Riga to Crimea via Kyiv (Ukrainian Historical Review, 2024).