![]() ![]() What has emerged instead from the significant body of secondary literature that has evolved around her life and work is a meta-archive of scattered auto/biographical documents with different and often competing translations, extracts from her letters, diary entries, as well as novels and plays that create palimpsests of traces of the self. And yet, apart from her autobiography of her early years in Russia her personal writings have never been translated in their entirety and remain inaccessible to non-Russian speaking scholars. As the first woman to hold a chair in mathematics in modern Europe, but also as a novelist and playwright, Kovaleskaya is a figure who has inspired generations of women mathematicians, as well as feminist and literary scholars around the world. ![]() ![]() In this paper, I draw on my research project of writing a feminist genealogy of automathographies, through excavating Sofia Kovalevskaya’s auto/biographical documents. ![]()
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