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February 1, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Episode 1 and video recording are available at:
Polish Cultural Institute New York YouTube<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Encounters with Polish Literature<\/strong> is a new video series for anyone interested in literature and the culture of books and reading. Each month, host David A. Goldfarb<\/strong> will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series<\/a><\/strong> and the timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction with Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto), Joanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska (Indiana University), and Przemys\u0142aw Czapli\u0144ski, editors of Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (University of Toronto Press<\/strong>, 2018).
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Joanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska and Tamara Trojanowska at 2020 AATSEEL Awards Ceremony in San Diego.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the first episode of Encounters with Polish Literature our host, David A. Goldfarb begins with a few brief thoughts about points of contact between Polish literature in English translation and American culture in recent history, in the works of Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz and Wis\u0142awa Szymborska and the way that New Yorkers found comfort in Adam Zagajewski\u2019s poem, \u201cTry to Praise the Mutilated World\u201d after 9\/11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we meet the editors of Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture Since 1918<\/em>\u2014Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto), Joanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska (Indiana University\u2014Bloomington), and Przemys\u0142aw Czapli\u0144ski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144, Poland). This recent book updates older histories of Polish literature by Manfred Kridl, Julian Krzy\u017cyanowski, and Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz, by addressing new currents in Polish literature and new questions that are relevant to our current cultural environment with English-speaking readers and students in mind. Rather than presenting a monographic view in the voice of a single author, this book is presented as an anthology of competing and even contradictory views by around sixty authors, and does not shield readers from any particular viewpoint about Polish culture or water down any controversies within Poland today. Rather it highlights those tensions to provide a quick route to the most interesting debates happening today, and takes risks in introducing authors who may not yet be well known outside of Poland to present an active picture of an evolving scene. Being Poland<\/em> maps the history of 20th<\/sup>-century and contemporary Polish culture onto multiple possible grids, considering traditional themes like Sarmatism and Romanticism, canonicity, genres, strategies for responding to tradition, and evolving political debates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For students interested in advanced study of Polish literature and culture, our three guests describe the academic programs in Polish studies at the University of Toronto<\/a>, Indiana University<\/a>\u2014Bloomington, and Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska (Indiana University)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska is an Associate Professor of Polish Literature and Culture in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University where she also served as Director of the Polish Studies Center from 2015 to 2020. She approaches her field from a comparative perspective and pursues research that crosses disciplinary and national borders. Her longstanding interests in intersections between trauma, memory, and the everyday are reflected in her monograph, The Kingdom of Insignificance: Miron Bia\u0142oszewski, and the Quotidian, the Traumatic, and the Queer<\/em> (Northwestern UP, 2013; Polish translation Kr\u00f3lestwo ma\u0142oznacz\u0105co\u015bci: Miron Bia\u0142oszewski a trauma, codzienno\u015b\u0107 i queer<\/em>, Universitas 2018), and in Germany, Poland and Postmemorial Relations: In Search of a Livable Past<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She is a coeditor of Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918<\/em> (Toronto UP, 2018), an 800-page interdisciplinary volume with sixty contributions from a team of international scholars written with an English-speaking audience in mind. Her new book project investigates contemporary Poland\u2019s cultural memory from the perspective of long lasting imprints of communist politics of memory, particularly as pertaining to Polish-Jewish past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A graduate of the Drama Centre at the University of Toronto (PhD) and of Theatre Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w (MA), Tamara Trojanowska has also formerly held an Oxford University scholarship and an internship at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. She has taught at universities in Poland, Canada, and the United States, returning to University of Toronto as a faculty member in 1998. Since then, she has directed the Polish Language and Literature Program at the Slavic Department, strengthening in strides its profile and presence in North America, as well as the University College Drama Program (2008-2012). She now serves as Director of the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at U of T where she co-founded the BMO Lab in Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her current research focuses on the intersections of drama and theatre with history, philosophy, and religious thought, and emphasizes issues of subjecthood and transgression. Her latest research project, co-edited with Joanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska and Przemys\u0142aw Czapli\u0144ski (with assistance of Agnieszka Polakowska) and entitled Being Poland. A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918<\/em> (University of Toronto Press, 2018) includes her extensive analysis of the transgressive practices in Polish drama and theatre (\u201cDelectatio furiosa, or the modes of cultural transgression\u201d). She has also contributed a paper on this subject to Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context<\/em> (eds. Magda Romanska and Kathleen Cioffi, Northwestern University Press, 2020). Her investigations of the dramatic and the sacred have resulted in a new selection of, and an extensive introduction to, the plays of Roman Brandstaetter (2016), and a new book project on transgressive crypto-theology in Polish theatre and drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tamara Trojanowska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Przemys\u0142aw Czapli\u0144ski<\/strong> (Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144, Poland)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Przemys\u0142aw Czapli\u0144ski \u2013 professor, historian of Polish and European literature, essayist, translator, literary critic, co-founder of the Department of Anthropology of Literature (Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144, Poland), membership of Polish Academy of Sciences, director of Center for Open Humanities.  Author of more than ten books – most recently: Polska do wymiany. P\u00f3\u017ana nowoczesno\u015b\u0107 i nasze wielkie narracje<\/em> [Poland for exchange. Late modernity and our grand narratives<\/em>] (Warsaw, 2009), The Remnants of Modernity. Two Essays on Sarmatism and Utopia<\/em> (Tr. Thomas Anessi, Frankfurt am Main 2015), Poruszona mapa. Wyobra\u017ania geograficzno-kulturowa polskiej literatury prze\u0142omu XX i XXI wieku<\/em> (Krak\u00f3w 2016) [The Shifted Map. Geo-cultural Imagery of Polish Literature at the turn of 20th and 21st century<\/em>]; Literatura i jej natury<\/em> (Pozna\u0144 2017) [Literature and Its Natures<\/em>; co-authors: Joanna B. Bednarek, Dawid Gosty\u0144ski]. Winner of the Ko\u015bcielski Prize (1998), Prime Minister’s Prize (1999), Kazimierz Wyka Prize (2004), and Jan Dlugosz Prize (2016), among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Przemys\u0142aw Czapli\u0144ski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

David A. Goldfarb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David A. Goldfarb is an independent scholar of Polish literature and literary theory, a literary translator from Polish to English, and a liaison for Polish authors to US publishers. In 2018 he translated feature articles and interviews from Wysokie Obcasy\u2014the weekly women\u2019s supplement to Poland\u2019s main independent daily paper Gazeta Wyborcza<\/em>\u2014for Newsmavens.com, a pan-European women\u2019s news portal. From mid-2010 to the end of 2013, he was Curator of Literature and Humanities Programming at the Polish Cultural Institute New York, a diplomatic mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Prior to that he served as Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as well as an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Cornell University and Deep Springs College. He has published articles on Bruno Schulz, Zbigniew Herbert, Stanis\u0142aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Mikhail Lermontov, and East European cinema in such journals as East European Politics and Societies<\/em>, Indiana Slavic Studies<\/em>, Philosophy and Literature<\/em>, Prooftexts<\/em>, The Polish Review<\/em>, Slavic and East European Performance<\/em>, and Jewish Quarterly<\/em>, and he has published book chapters on Jozef Wittlin, Witold Gombrowicz, and Nikolai Gogol and Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He has written the introduction and notes for Tolstoy’s „The Death of Ivan Ilych” and Other Stories<\/em> and Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons<\/em> for the Barnes and Noble Classics series, and for the Penguin Classics edition of the The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories <\/em>by Bruno Schulz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David A. Goldfarb<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bartek Remisko, Executive Producer<\/em>
David A. Goldfarb, Host & Producer <\/em>
Natalia Iyudin, Producer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project is part of  21-anniversary celebration of Polish Cultural Institute New York<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wyobra\u017ania geograficzno-kulturowa polskiej literatury prze\u0142omu XX i XXI wieku (Krak\u00f3w 2016) [The Shifted Map. Geo-cultural Imagery of Polish Literature at the turn of 20th and 21st century]; Literatura i jej natury (Pozna\u0144 2017) [Literature and Its Natures; co-authors: Joanna B. Bednarek, Dawid Gosty\u0144ski]. Winner of the Ko\u015bcielski Prize (1998), Prime Minister's Prize (1999), Kazimierz Wyka Prize (2004), and Jan Dlugosz Prize (2016), among others.\\nDavid A. Goldfarb\\nDavid A. Goldfarb is an independent scholar of Polish literature and literary theory, a literary translator from Polish to English, and a liaison for Polish authors to US publishers. In 2018 he translated feature articles and interviews from Wysokie Obcasy\u2014the weekly women\u2019s supplement to Poland\u2019s main independent daily paper Gazeta Wyborcza\u2014for Newsmavens.com, a pan-European women\u2019s news portal. From mid-2010 to the end of 2013, he was Curator of Literature and Humanities Programming at the Polish Cultural Institute New York, a diplomatic mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Prior to that he served as Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University.\\nHe holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as well as an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Cornell University and Deep Springs College. 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Each month, host David A. Goldfarb will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series and the timeline.\nIntroduction with Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto), Joanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska (Indiana University), and Przemys\u0142aw Czapli\u0144ski, editors of Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 (University of Toronto Press, 2018).\nIn the first episode of Encounters with Polish Literature our host, David A. 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Rather than presenting a monographic view in the voice of a single author, this book is presented as an anthology of competing and even contradictory views by around sixty authors, and does not shield readers from any particular viewpoint about Polish culture or water down any controversies within Poland today. Rather it highlights those tensions to provide a quick route to the most interesting debates happening today, and takes risks in introducing authors who may not yet be well known outside of Poland to present an active picture of an evolving scene. Being Poland maps the history of 20th-century and contemporary Polish culture onto multiple possible grids, considering traditional themes like Sarmatism and Romanticism, canonicity, genres, strategies for responding to tradition, and evolving political debates.\nFor students interested in advanced study of Polish literature and culture, our three guests describe the academic programs in Polish studies at the University of Toronto, Indiana University\u2014Bloomington, and Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144.\nJoanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska (Indiana University)\nJoanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska is an Associate Professor of Polish Literature and Culture in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University where she also served as Director of the Polish Studies Center from 2015 to 2020. She approaches her field from a comparative perspective and pursues research that crosses disciplinary and national borders. Her longstanding interests in intersections between trauma, memory, and the everyday are reflected in her monograph, The Kingdom of Insignificance: Miron Bia\u0142oszewski, and the Quotidian, the Traumatic, and the Queer (Northwestern UP, 2013; Polish translation Kr\u00f3lestwo ma\u0142oznacz\u0105co\u015bci: Miron Bia\u0142oszewski a trauma, codzienno\u015b\u0107 i queer, Universitas 2018), and in Germany, Poland and Postmemorial Relations: In Search of a Livable Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She is a coeditor of Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 (Toronto UP, 2018), an 800-page interdisciplinary volume with sixty contributions from a team of international scholars written with an English-speaking audience in mind. Her new book project investigates contemporary Poland\u2019s cultural memory from the perspective of long lasting imprints of communist politics of memory, particularly as pertaining to Polish-Jewish past.\nTamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto)\nA graduate of the Drama Centre at the University of Toronto (PhD) and of Theatre Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w (MA), Tamara Trojanowska has also formerly held an Oxford University scholarship and an internship at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. She has taught at universities in Poland, Canada, and the United States, returning to University of Toronto as a faculty member in 1998. Since then, she has directed the Polish Language and Literature Program at the Slavic Department, strengthening in strides its profile and presence in North America, as well as the University College Drama Program (2008-2012). She now serves as Director of the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at U of T where she co-founded the BMO Lab in Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI.\nHer current research focuses on the intersections of drama and theatre with history, philosophy, and religious thought, and emphasizes issues of subjecthood and transgression. Her latest research project, co-edited with Joanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska and Przemys\u0142aw Czapli\u0144ski (with assistance of Agnieszka Polakowska) and entitled Being Poland. A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 (University of Toronto Press, 2018) includes her extensive analysis of the transgressive practices in Polish drama and theatre (\u201cDelectatio furiosa, or the modes of cultural transgression\u201d). She has also contributed a paper on this subject to Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context (eds. Magda Romanska and Kathleen Cioffi, Northwestern University Press, 2020). Her investigations of the dramatic and the sacred have resulted in a new selection of, and an extensive introduction to, the plays of Roman Brandstaetter (2016), and a new book project on transgressive crypto-theology in Polish theatre and drama.\nPrzemys\u0142aw Czapli\u0144ski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144, Poland)\nPrzemys\u0142aw Czapli\u0144ski \u2013 professor, historian of Polish and European literature, essayist, translator, literary critic, co-founder of the Department of Anthropology of Literature (Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144, Poland), membership of Polish Academy of Sciences, director of Center for Open Humanities. Author of more than ten books - most recently: Polska do wymiany. P\u00f3\u017ana nowoczesno\u015b\u0107 i nasze wielkie narracje [Poland for exchange. Late modernity and our grand narratives] (Warsaw, 2009), The Remnants of Modernity. Two Essays on Sarmatism and Utopia (Tr. Thomas Anessi, Frankfurt am Main 2015), Poruszona mapa. Wyobra\u017ania geograficzno-kulturowa polskiej literatury prze\u0142omu XX i XXI wieku (Krak\u00f3w 2016) [The Shifted Map. Geo-cultural Imagery of Polish Literature at the turn of 20th and 21st century]; Literatura i jej natury (Pozna\u0144 2017) [Literature and Its Natures; co-authors: Joanna B. Bednarek, Dawid Gosty\u0144ski]. Winner of the Ko\u015bcielski Prize (1998), Prime Minister's Prize (1999), Kazimierz Wyka Prize (2004), and Jan Dlugosz Prize (2016), among others.\nDavid A. Goldfarb\nDavid A. Goldfarb is an independent scholar of Polish literature and literary theory, a literary translator from Polish to English, and a liaison for Polish authors to US publishers. In 2018 he translated feature articles and interviews from Wysokie Obcasy\u2014the weekly women\u2019s supplement to Poland\u2019s main independent daily paper Gazeta Wyborcza\u2014for Newsmavens.com, a pan-European women\u2019s news portal. From mid-2010 to the end of 2013, he was Curator of Literature and Humanities Programming at the Polish Cultural Institute New York, a diplomatic mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Prior to that he served as Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University.\nHe holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as well as an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Cornell University and Deep Springs College. 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