Ursula Phillips is a writer on Polish literature, mainly in the field of women's writing, gender and feminism, and also a translator of literary and academic works, including "The Palace "by contemporary novelist Wiesław Myśliwski, historian Antoni Mączak's "Travel in Early Modern Europe, "Grażyna Borkowska's "Alienated Women: A Study on Polish Women's Fiction 1845-1916 "and the recent research project "Humanism in Polish Culture". She is Honorary Research Associate of the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies.