Paul Vickers completed his BA in Polish and German at UCL (SSEES) in 2006 is now in the final year of an AHRC-funded PhD at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow. His research is on the communist-era autobiographies of peasants in the former German areas of post-war Poland submitted for memoir competitions. The study examines the relationships between ordinary people's experiences, memory, censorship and
dominant historical narratives between 1944 and 1979. Paul has also researched representations of Polish-German relations in theatre. Publications include: “‘Czuję sie niczym - czy to w Polsce kapitalistycznej czy Ludowej’: Images of the Polish Father from Women’s Communist-era Memoirs”, in Postawy rodzicielskie współczesnych ojców, Maria Kujawska and Lidia Huber (eds), (Poznań: WSNHiD, 2010), pp. 48-70. [*this article is actually about women’s experiences of illegal and legal abortions in PRL but I think I must have used a (sub)conscious self-censorship in the title]; “Staging memoirs of forced migration: Jan Klata's Polish-German theatre project ‘Transfer!’”, Polish Theatre Perspectives 2010:1; “The Staging of Family Memories in Jan Klata's ‘Transfer!’”, in Rodzina-Tożsamość-Pamięć, Maria Kujawska, Izabela Skórzyńska, Grażyna Teusz (eds)* * (Poznań: WSNHiD, 2009).
