Degrees:
Ph.D. – 2013 – degree in American literature – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University – Painter’s Word: Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley, and Ad Reinhardt as Writers
M.A. – 2003 – degree in English literature – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University – The Genre Revisited: Iris Murdoch’s and Muriel Spark’s Renditions of the Gothic
Research interests:
- American art (in its broader contexts: social, political, scientific, philosophical)
- multidisciplinary modernism
- American intellectual history
- the relation of modern art and literature to geometry, science and technology
- artists’ writings
- word & image; art & literature; interart correspondences
- American architecture
- avant-garde
- history of science and technology
Membership in scholarly societies:
- 2014-2018 Society for Paragone Studies
- 2004-present Polish Association for American Studies
- 2004-present European Association for American Studies
Grants and Awards
- 2021 “Miniatura” research grant (Polish), September 2021, the Terra Foundation for American Library, Paris, France
- 2014 Terra Foundation for American Art Academic Program Grant ($ 25000) for organizing “Wordstruck: American Artists as Readers, Writers and Literati,” an international academic conference at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, May 13-16, 2015
- 2013 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013
- 2013-2022 Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Rector’s Award for Academic Excellence, 2013, 2021, 2022
Major Publications:
- “What Scene, What’s Seen, What’s in a … Word: Thoughts in and on Artists’ Writings,” Discourses on Culture 19/1 (2023), 65-85
- “Building from the Ground Up: Frank Lloyd Wright as an Architect of Language,” Res Rhetorica 9/1 (2022), 52-68
- Kiedy malarz pisze (jak się patrzy). Wstęp do badań nad pisarstwem artystów (Writing About Seeing About Writing: An Introduction to the Study of Artists’ Writings). Lublin: Maria Curie Sklodowska University Press, 2021
- “Authoritatively Her/Self: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Life Writing.” Text and Image in Women’s Life Writing, eds. Valérie Baisnée-Keay et al. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 77-97
- “On the Necessity to Poetize Sensations in Order to Comprehend Them: Marsden Hartley as a Writer.” Marsden Hartley: The Earth Is All I Know of Wonder, ed. Lærke Rydal Jørgensen and Mathias Ussing Seeberg. Denmark: Narayana Press and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2019, 76-89 (also published in Danish)
- “Gender (według) Georgii O’Keeffe: (cudzy) obraz a (własne) słowo artystki” (Gender in/According to Georgia O’Keeffe), Pleć awangardy (The Gender of the Avant-garde), eds. Anna Kałuża et al. Katowice: Silesian University Press, 2019, 289-303
- “American Anti-intellectualism and Artistic Creativity: Some Observations on the ‘Dumbing’ of America at the Onset of the New Millennium.” Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture, ed. Julia Nikiel and Izabela Kimak (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2019), 163-172
- “Warto spojrzeć przez inne okno. Po lekturze antologii Piotra Sommera” (review of an anthology of American poetry), Akcent 156 (2019), 184-190 (co-authored with Jerzy Kutnik)
- “Gender (według) Georgii O’Keeffe: (cudzy) obraz a (własne) słowo artystki” (Gender in/According to Georgia O’Keeffe), Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich 61/2 (2018), 51-62
- “Pierwsza wśród równych sobie. Georgia O’Keeffe, kobieca twarz awangardy” (Georgia O’Keeffe: The Feminine Face of the Avant-Garde), Akcent 2 (2018), 78-87
- “Man Ray ≠ Marcel Duchamp,” Nowa Dekada Krakowska 6 (2017), 75-84
- “She Did Know a Few Things: Georgia O’Keeffe as an Intellectual,” Polish Journal for American Studies 11 (2017), 41-58
- Painter’s Word: Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley and Ad Reinhardt as Writers. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 201
- “Nowa odsłona. Muzea i galerie sztuki w Europie Środkowej” (New Art Museums and Galleries in Eastern Europe), Akcent 4 (2016), 154-159
- “W poszukiwaniu centrum – stolice kulturalne nowożytnego świata. Część druga: amerykańskie korzenie posthistorycznego myślenia o sztuce” (In Search of the Center: Cultural Capitals of the Modern World, part 1), ) Akcent 4 (2016): 17-29 (co-authored with Jerzy Kutnik)
- “W poszukiwaniu centrum – stolice kulturalne nowożytnego świata. Część pierwsza: europejska perspektywa historyczna” (In Search of the Center: Cultural Capitals of the Modern World, part 1), Akcent 3 (2016): 34-46 (co-authored with Jerzy Kutnik)
- “Brushed off Words: On Artists’ Writings,” Visions and Revisions: Studies in Literature and Culture, ed. Grzegorz Czemiel et al. (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015), 241-48
- “Ad Reinhardt: Painter-as-Writer,” American Art 3, Fall (2014), 104-125
- “Reading Ad Reinhardt in Poland,” Brooklyn Rail, special Ad Reinhardt centenary issue, December (2013), 132
- “Echoes of the John Cage Year in Poland – Publications,” Akcent 4 (2012), 198-201
- “‘Ideas freed from events that brought them into being’: Jasper Johns’s Use of History,” The American Uses of History: Essays on Public Memory, ed. Tomasz Basiuk, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska and Krystyna Mazur (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011), 31-40
- “Verbi-visual Contexts in 20th-century American Painting,” (Mis)reading America. American Dreams, Fictions and Illusions, ed. Jerzy Durczak and Paweł Frelik (Cracow: Universitas, 2011), 415-28
- “Thomas Hart Benton’s Personal Recovery of American History,” British and American Literature and Culture Conference Proceedings, ed. Piotr Skurowski and Mirosław Aleksander Miernik (Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press), 61-68
- “A Rebel Without a Pose: The Artist According to Thomas Hart Benton,” Conformity and Resistance in America, ed. Jacek Gutorow and Tomasz Lebiecki (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), 284-293
- “‘We simply help people to say what they should say anyway’: Art and Politics in Post- WWII America,” American Freedoms, American (Dis)Orders, ed. Zbigniew Lewicki (Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2005), 81-90
Invited lectures
- “Ad Reinhardt’s Writings,” presented at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, October 29, 2013
- “’If it were the eye that solely was to satisfy…’: Marsden Hartley and the Indispensability of Words,”
- “Pathways to Hartley” symposium, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark, December 6, 2019
- “Art and Intellect: What Makes an Artist Think,” invited lecture, University of Warsaw, March 29, 2021
- “Why Write If You Can Paint? Thoughts on Thoughts and Feelings in American Artists’ Writings,” American Studies Colloquium Series, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, January 13, 2022
Courses taught:
- American History
- American Art and Music
- History of American Cinema
- American Popular Culture
- American Media
- Introduction to Film Studies
- Critical Approaches to Mass Media
- American Life and Institutions
- BA and MA seminar courses on selected aspects of American culture
Other:
- 2019 – collaboration with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art – the first major European retrospective exhibition of the American modernist painter Marsden Hartley (contribution to the exhibition bilingual catalogue and participation in an international symposium accompanying the exhibition open to the general public)
- 2021 – representative of MCSU in the societal (local and international) impact of research (2017-2021): “Increasing society’s awareness of and knowledge about a broad spectrum of artists’ interests and concerns as expressed in their writings”
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