2. Education and the Diplomas held: • MA in Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, 2000 (Teacher’s and teaching specialisation, with distinction); • also: MA in Political Science with a specialization in journalism at the Jagiellonian University, 2002 (distinction); • PhD in Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, 2004 (PhD thesis title: In Search of a Woman: the Early Fiction of Irena Krzywicka. • Postdoc: Habilitacja (a diploma of associate professorship), Jagiellonian University, 2017 (based on the monograph: Melancholic Migrating Bodies: Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing, 2015).
Diploma of the Jewish Studies Institute 2019-2020 Paideia European Institute for Jewish Studies (Stockholm, Sweden)
From 2020 (till 2021) MA in Theology and the Jewish Studies at the Lund University, Sweden.
3. Information about previous employment in scientific/artistic establishments:
Since 2018: Associated Professor at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Andrzej Frycz – Modrzewski Krakow University (contemporary literature, literature and cinematic adaptation, rhetoric, and the world literature in film), Poland.
2007-2011: Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Cultural Studies of the Andrzej Frycz – Modrzewski Krakow University.
2011-2018: Senior Teaching Fellow, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK.
Since 2018: Associate Research Fellow at SSEES UCL.
2005-2007: Lecturer at the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Tampere. Finland.
2001-2009 Visiting Lecturer at the Department of School of Gender Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Poland.
•2004-2003: Teacher Fellow in Contemporary Polish Literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK.
4. Organized Conferences and Seminars (last three years 2019-2017): PLEASE SEE ALSO MERITS IN ADMINITRATIVE DUTIES FOR DETAILS
June 11-12, 2018 International conference on Impacts of Gender Discourses in Poland, UCL SSEES, website: https://impactsofgender.weebly.com/
June 5-11, 2017: Art/Gender/LGBT in the Other Europe: LGBT art and the debate on gender. Series of seminars and exhibition at the Festival of Cultures at UCL.
February 2, 2017: Women’s Writing, Translation and Rethinking Nostalgia. Discussion seminar (altogether with Portobello Publisher).
5. Scholarships and Grants:
July 2017-May 2018: The Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University funding for the research on Retoryka choroby/retoryka obcego w najnowszej literaturze polskiej i wschodnioeuropejskiej w kontekście badań i dokonań humanistyki medycznej (The rhetoric of illness/the rhetoric of otherness in the contemporary Polish ad eastern European literature in the context of medical humanities. Two-year research grand.
June 2017: a grant for organising a 2018 international conference on Gender in Europe (with Polish Focus). Granted by Oxford Noble Foundation. http://noblefoundation.pl
January 2017: small grant within the UCL Grand Challenge for organising a conference at the UCL Festival of Culture. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/small-grants
June 2015: a two- year additional grant for developing the e-learning course. E-Learning Bonus Funds at UCL SSEES.
March 2014: eMigrating landscapes Project awarder with the funding for developing the serious of seminars during the UCL Festival of the Arts by CEELBAS funding, http://www.ceelbas.ac.uk/
December 2013: ProeLang Project: two-year-funding on developing self-learning language environment - a two-years CEELBAS funding for further developing an on-line toolkit on teaching Polish Language, culture and literature (including module on politics and social studies), http://www.ceelbas.ac.uk/
November 2012 (also March 2014): a Polish Cultural Institute in London funding for the 8 seminars: series on contemporary emigration, post-communism and postcolonial discourses: (the title: eMigration Landscapes: transnational seminars on contemporary emigration and culture)
June 2012: a one-year CEELBAS funding for developing an on-line toolkit on teaching Polish Language, culture and literature (including module on politics and social studies), http://www.ceelbas.ac.uk/
December 2011-2013: a three-year scholarship of the Polish National Science Centre for the book on Polish contemporary emigration in the literary and cultural discourses, http://www.ncn.gov.pl/?language=en;
February 2011: the Aleksanteri Institute of University of Helsinki Stipend for the one-week stay at the Institute for the Eastern European Studies (stay and the visiting lectures in May 7-11, 2012)
September 2010: The Michigan University Stipend for one-week conference on Polish Studies at the Michigan University
2007-2010: a three-year full time Emil Aaltonen Foundation Grant for the Research within the International Project.
2006-2009: Foundation for Polish Science Grant (MISTRZ Programme): Three year scholarship, not exclusive of other work.
2001-2003: Socrates Exchange Scholarship, University College London.
6. Participation in Collective Projects, Networks, Discussion Groups:
a) Since January 2015: LGBTQ Network at UCL
b) June 2007 - May 2010: Polish and Russian Women’s Writing in Transformation: Generation, National Identity and the Body (PURU). Research project funded by Emil Aaltonen Foundation, Co-ordinator Marja Rytkonen, University of Tampere, School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies, Russian Language and Culture
c) 2006 – 2009: Forms of Pessimism in Polish Prose After 1985. Program: Mistrz, Foudation for Polish Science: Co-ordinator: Prof. Jerzy Jarzębski, 8 members, Jagiellonian University
d) 2006 - 2007: Intimacy and proximity Network (Slavonic Literatures and Culture): University of Tuebingen
7. Membership:
LGBTQ Research Network, University College London
Adam Mickiewicz Literary Association (Group for Comparative Studies), http://towarzystwo-literackie.org/
Polish Studies Association, part of ASEEES http://aseees.org/
Union of Polish Writers Abroad, http://www.zppno.com/
8. Languages: Polish: native English: fluent Spanish: good Russian: reading skills Swedish: reading and comprehensive skills Hebrew: reading skills
9. Academic website: For information about the evets, initiatives, talks, interviews and conferences, please go to my academic website: https://cudzoziemki.weebly.com