Education
M.A. 1975 and ABD 1980, Warsaw University
Ph.D. 1998 New York University, Comparative literature, specialization in Polish Language and Literature within the context of European modernity.
Research Interests
Polish language and culture in the global context, theatre and language acquisition, theatre, film, Polish and European modernity, Polish women and history, Polish identity formations. My recent interest focuses on the image of America in Poland in the 1920’s and the 1930s. I am the co-editor of European Stages, a CUNY online theatre magazine covering theatre events in Europe.
Current Courses
Elementary Polish I and II, Intermediate Polish I and II, Advanced Polish, Polish Communism and Post-communism in Film, Polish Theatre and Its Traditions
Recent Publications:
Book chapters:
“Introduction” – Dorota Masłowska: Four Plays. Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications,
New York, 2023.
“Good Americans and Polish Identity Constructions after World War I. A chapter in
Polishness: Rethinking Modern Polish Identity. University of Rochester Press. 2023.
“Poetry of the Discarded (Dorota Kędzierzawska).“ In Being Poland: A New History of
Polish Literature and Culture since 1918. Ed. Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska,
Przemysław Czapliński. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2018.
“To Be or to Perform: Andrzej T. Wirth and Trans-Continental Gardening,“ in Andrzej.T Wirth
Kurztexte mit einem Essay von Krystyna Lipińska Iłłakowicz, Teater der Zeit, 2016.
“Remembering Wojciech Krukowski (1944 - 2014) the Founder of Akademia Ruchu.” The Live
Art Almanac Volume 4, Live Art Development Agency, London 2016.
“The Trajectories of Smuggling Polish Culture in the USA: Comparative Perspectives / Przemycanie kultury Polskiej w USA; perspektywa komparatystyczna.” In Modern Challenges for Polish Studies/ Polonistyka wobec wyzwań wspólczesności.
Ed Stanislaw Gajda, Irena Jokiel, Opole University, 2014.
“Od Miss Liberty do nowoczesnej pensjonarki. Mity i demityzacje Stanów Zjednoczonych w
latach dwudziestych i trzydziestych XX wieku w Polsce.” /From Ms Liberty to the
Modern Schoolgirl. Myth and demitologization of the United States in the 1920s and the
1930s of the Twentieth Century./ In Komparatystyka i konteksty. Komparatystyka miedzy Mickiewiczem a dniem dzisiejszym. Ed. Lidia Wisniewska /Comparative Studies and Their contexts: Between Mickiewicz and Today /. Bydgoszcz: Jan Kazimierz University, 2012.
“Flâneur Polonaise: Gombrowicz’s Slow Modalities.” A chapter in New Perspectives on Polish Culture: Private Encounters, Public Affairs. New York: PIASA Publications, 2012.
“Gombrowicz i Ameryka: boje wydawnicze” /Gombrowicz and America: Publication Struggles/ A chapter in Witold Gombrowicz – nasz współczesny / Witold Gombrowicz: Our Contemporary. Ed. Jerzy Jarzebski, Kraków: Universitas, 2011.
Articles:
“Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context.” A review article. The Polish Review. Vol. 68,
no 1, 2023).
“Apples and Oranges: Andrzej Bobkowski and Witold Gombrowicz as Diary Writers/Performers.” The Polish Review, September 2022, vol. 67, no. 3.
“Hymn to Love in a Love-less World: Chorus of Women, Berlin 2017.” European Stages,
Spring 2018.
“Theater More Arresting than Ever: A Conversation with Dorota Masłowska” European Stages,
Volume 6, Fall 2016.
“Remembering Wojciech Krukowski (1944 - 2014) the Founder of Akademia Ruchu.” The LiveArt Almanac Volume 4, Live Art Development Agency, London 2016.
“(A)polonia: Polish Twenty-First-Century Theatre in America” - PAJ: A Journal of
Performance and Art, Vol 37. No. 3, September 2015.
“Awantura Warszawska and History in the Making: Michał Zadara and His Docudrama.” Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego, August 2011. European Stages, Volume 4, Spring 2015.
“Remembering Wojciech Krukowski (1944 - 2014) the Founder of Akademia Ruchu.”
European Stages. Volume 2, Spring 2014.
“Ellen Stewart –Eastern European Bridges.” Slavic and East European Performance, Spring
2011.
“Further On, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre. By Michal Kobialka,” TDR. TDR. The Drama
Review: The Journal of Performance Studies Spring, 2011
Work in Progress
Image of America in the 1920s and the 1930s.
Gombrowicz and America. Slowness and Culture. Polish Women and History: Zofia Nałkowska. Theatre as community.