Palina Urban

Personal information

First name

Palina

Last name

Urban

Institutional affiliation

University of Oxford, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. DPhil Candidate.

Narratological interest

My current research is focused on the role of contemporary technology in the production of Selves and autobiographical memory in the first generation of online life writers. I approach a sample of biographical cases from the perspective of narrative and discursive studies. I am investigating which strategies of the identity construction are allocated to the ego-narratives with different degree of intimacy (open and (semi-)closed online journals, hand-written diaries, letters and oral storytelling); how the writing of members of the community contributes to the co-production of meaning and reshaping the narrated Self; how the access to former ego-narratives produced with different intentions impact the reconstruction of life story.