News from Faculty Units
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Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska’s East Coast book launch and special program at UnionDocs in New York, NY
On December 7, 2023, Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska’s (American Studies Research Unit) recent book had its East Coast premiere at UnionDocs in New York, NY, at the invitation of executive artistic director and artistic co-director of UNDO, Christopher Allen and Jenny Miller.
19.12.2023 -
Dr Halszka Bąk among the winners of the Networking Awards for Junior Scientists of Women in Cognitive Science+ (WiCS)
It is with great pleasure that we announce dr Halszka Bąk has been awarded the Networking Award for Junior Scientists of Women in Cognitive Science+ (WiCS+).
6.12.2023 -
WA Tableau Vivant Contest (2023)
The Department of Studies in Culture & English Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Print Culture Research Unit are proud to announce the first edition of a contest addressed to Faculty of English (WA) students: WA Tableau Vivant Contest 2023.
29.11.2023 -
Dr Kornelia Boczkowska’s project awarded an NCN OPUS 25 grant
We are pleased to announce that dr Kornelia Boczkowska from the American Studies Research Unit: Language and Culture has received funding from the National Science Center (NCN) OPUS 25 program for her project “An animal is not a metaphor: Animals and human-animals relations in American experimental ecocinema.”
29.11.2023 -
Prof. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk’s 40 years of academic career — a tribute film with interviews
This film was made on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Prof. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk’s academic work by the Department of Contemporary English Language. The film shows Prof. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk and the Faculty of English (formerly School of English), seen through the lens of researchers from all over the world.
23.11.2023 -
Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska’s book talk for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
On October 27, 2023, Kornelia Boczkowska gave a book talk for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies on the invitation of John Powers from Washington University in St. Louis and Oksana Chefranova from Yale University, co-chairs of the ExFM (Experimental Film and Media) scholarly interest group at SCMS.
6.11.2023 -
Dr Kornelia Boczkowska’s book launch and special program at Other Cinema in San Francisco, CA
On September 23, 2023, Kornelia Boczkowska’s recent book, Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video (Brill, 2023), had its world premiere at Other Cinema in San Francisco, CA, which served as her principal West Coast tour stop. Kornelia Boczkowska also curated a special program ...
9.10.2023 -
Dr Kornelia Boczkowska at the 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival
On March 21-26, 2023, dr Kornelia Boczkowska attended the 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival as a screener, screening advisor, moderator and panelist.
25.04.2023 -
Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video by Kornelia Boczkowska
It is our pleasure to announce that a new book by Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska, Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video, was published by Brill on February 9, 2023.
27.02.2023 -
(Im)politeness in McEwan’s Fiction: Literary Pragma-Stylistics by Urszula Kizelbach
It is our pleasure to announce that a new book by Dr. Urszula Kizelbach, (Im)politeness in McEwan’s Fiction: Literary Pragma-Stylistics was published by Palgrave Macmillan on February 26, 2023.
26.02.2023