dr hab.Kornelia Boczkowska

Kornelia Boczkowska
Adiunkt (Assistant professor)

Pracownia Studiów Amerykanistycznych: Język i Kultura

Websites / Profiles:

Degrees

  • B.A. in English, Poznań, 2009
  • M.A. in Russian, Poznań, 2010
  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 2011
  • Ph.D. in English, Poznań (summa cum laude), 2015
  • D.Litt. in literature, Poznań, 2025

Research interests

  • American studies
  • Experimental film and video
  • American cinema
  • Independent film
  • New media
  • American and Russian astroculture (particularly space art and space documentary film)

Teaching experience

  • EFL at university level (writing, speaking, grammar)
  • British and American life and institutions
  • Cultural studies of English speaking countries
  • Selected aspects of British and American culture
  • Film in the English speaking countries: genres and conventions
  • American film
  • Experimental film and video
  • Independent film
  • Cinema and the senses
  • City film
  • Major figures in cinema
  • Women’s film
  • BA and MA seminar

Professional organizations

  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies
  • Polish Association for American Studies / European Association for American Studies
  • Polish Association for the Study of English / European Association for the Study of English
  • European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
  • Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
  • San Francisco Cinematheque

Scholarships/grants

  • University of Vienna, 2010/2011
  • PCA/ACA Madonna Marsden International Travel Grant, 2013
  • John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Research Grant, Berlin, 2014
  • PCA/ACA Madonna Marsden International Travel Grant, 2015
  • EAAS Conference Travel Grant, 2016
  • The Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center Research Travel Grant, Purdue University Libraries, West Lafayette, 2016
  • Terra Foundation Research Travel Grant to the United States, Anthology Film Archives, New York City, Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge and Canyon Cinema, San Francisco, 2017
  • ESSE Type B Bursary for 2018, The Academy Film Archive, Los Angeles, CA and Canyon Cinema, San Francisco, CA, 2018
  • National Science Center post-doctoral grant within the SONATA 14 funding scheme (UMO-2018/31/D/HS2/01553): Lost highways, forgotten travels: The road movie in the post-war American avant-garde and experimental film through the lens of women and men filmmakers, 2019-2023 (Principal Investigator)
  • National Science Center grant within the OPUS 25 funding scheme (UMO-2023/49/B/HS2/00653): An animal is not a metaphor: Animals and human-animal relations in American experimental ecocinema, 2024-2027 (Principal Investigator)

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • 42nd Annual Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association National Conference, Boston, 2012 (paper, session chair)
  • 11th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, Istanbul, 2012
  • 3rd International Conference on the Image: The Thread to the Unknown, Poznań, 2012
  • 2013 Online Conference on Multidisciplinary Social Sciences
  • 43rd Annual Popular Culture Association and American Cultural Association National Conference, Washington, D.C., 2013
  • 22nd Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English; Face to Face, Page to Page, Warsaw, 2013
  • 7th Global Conference: Fear, Horror & Terror at the Interface, Oxford, 2013
  • 35th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Fantastic Empires, Orlando, 2014 (paper, session chair)
  • 23rd Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English: Visions and Revisions, Lublin 2014
  • Cosmo-graphies: Textual and Visual Cultures of Outer Space, Penryn, 2014
  • 22nd International Conference of the European Society for Astronomy in
    Culture: The Materiality of the Sky, Valetta, 2014
  • 45th Annual Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association National Conference, New Orleans, 2015
  • 24th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English: Emotion(s), Wrocław, 2015
  • 27th Polish Association for American Studies Annual Conference: Homeliness, Domesticity and Security in American Culture, Warsaw, 2015
  • 25th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English: Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self, Szczyrk, 2016
  • 31st European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference, Constanta, 2016
  • Aboriginal North America and Europe: Strengthening Connections. An interdisciplinary international conference, Poznań, 2016
  • 27th International Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, 2017
  • 29th Polish Association for American Studies Annual Conference: Performing America, Szczecin, 2017
  • 9th Annual Small Cinemas Conference: From the Grassroots to the Global, Boca Raton, FL, 2018
  • 13th European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference: Structures and Voices: Storytelling in Post-Digital Times, Gdańsk, 2019
  • 28th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English: Diversity is inclusive: Cultural, literary and linguistic mosaic, Poznań, 2019
  • 3rd International Conference: The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture, London, 2019 (paper, session chair)
  • 117th Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, 2019
  • 61st Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, online, 2021
  • 33rd European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference, online, 2021
  • 14th European Network for Cinema and Media Studies conference: Transitions: Moving Images and Bodies, online, 2021
  • 66th Flaherty Film Seminar, online, 2021
  • 75th University of Film and Video Association conference, online, 2021
  • 118th Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, 2021
  • 12th Theory into Practice workshop, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main & Pálacky University, Olomouc, 2021
  • 34th Far West Popular Culture Association Annual Conference: Crisis, Culture and Communities, online, 2022
  • Cinema in the Anthropocene, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, 2022
  • 31st International Screen Studies Conference, online, 2022
  • XXVIII Visible Evidence Conference: Images of History, Gdansk, 2022
  • PopMeC/AACCP Conference: Animals in the American Popular Imagination, online, 2022
  • 63rd Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Denver, CO, 2023
  • 17th European Network for Cinema and Media Studies conference: Emergencies. Media in an Unpredictable World, Izmir, Turkey, 2024
  • XXX Visible Evidence Conference: Decentring Documentary. New Visions and Perspectives, Melbourne, Australia, 2024 (presented online)

Organizer of international conferences and congresses

  • Secretary of the Organizing Committee, Aboriginal North America and Europe: Strengthening Connections. An interdisciplinary international conference, November 11-13, 2016, Poznań
  • Secretary of the Organizing Committee, 28th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English: Diversity is inclusive: Cultural, literary and linguistic mosaic, June 27-28, 2019, Poznań
  • Co-organizer of a panel “Experimental Eco-Cinema: Perspectives on an Expanding Field” at the 17th European Network for Cinema and Media Studies conference: Emergencies. Media in an Unpredictable World, Izmir, 2024 (with Henning Engelke)

Program curation

  • Personal Road Movies (book launch/special program), Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA, 2023
  • Lost Highways, Embodied Travels (book launch/special program), UnionDocs, New York, NY, 2023
  • An Animal Is Not A Metaphor (special program), 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 2024
  • Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Revisited, 19th Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, NM, 2024
  • From West to East: Canyon Cinema Meets the Coop, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York, NY (co-curated with Dominic Angerame), 2024
  • Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Revisited 2, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA, 2024
  • Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Kornelia’s Interaktive Eco-Kino, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA, 2024

Editorial/reviewing

  • Guest editor, Landscape, Travel and the Gaze in Experimental Film and Video, special issue of Papers on Language and Literature 57(1)
  • Book reviews editor, European Journal of American Studies, 2021-
  • Papers & Panels reviewer for UFVA (University Film and Video Association), 2021-2022
  • Screener & screening advisor for the Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2022-
  • Reviewer for the National Science Center, Poland, 2023-now

Peer-reviewer for

  • Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo [Humanities and Natural Science]
  • Arts
  • Papers on Language and Literature
  • ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
  • Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance
  • Feminist Media Studies
  • European Journal of American Studies
  • Quarterly Review of Film and Video
  • Congent Arts & Humanities
  • Visual Studies
  • Mobilities
  • Studies in Documentary Film

Honours

  • Award of the Head of the School of English of Adam Mickiewicz University for the best M.A. thesis in literary studies, 2011
  • AMU Rector’s scholarship for outstanding research achievements, 2021
  • Scholarship from the Minister of Education and Science for outstanding young researchers, 2022
  • Bonus for publishing in top Scopus journals within the “Initiative of Excellence – Research University” (ID-UB) project, 2022
  • AMU Rector’s 1st degree award for outstanding research results, 2024

Guest lectures

  • SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Psychology, Warsaw, 2013
  • Department of English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, 2021
  • Virtual book talk for the ExFM (Experimental Film and Media) scholarly interest group at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), 2023
  • Panelist, What the Hell Was That?, 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 2023
  • Moderator, special program Celluloid Body curated by Diana Sánchez Maciel, 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 2023

Workshops

  • 12th Theory into Practice workshop, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main & Pálacky University, Olomouc, 2021
  • Milena Gierke in conversation with Federico Rossin: Practices of production, curatorship, and collaboration in experimental cinema, FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin, 2023
  • Botanical Conversations: Making Images with Plants, with Philip Hoffman, Oakland, CA, 2024