drKornelia Boczkowska
Adiunkt (Assistant professor)
- kornelia@amu.edu.pl
- (+48) 61 829 3774
Collegium Heliodori, room 359
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
Research interests
- American studies
- Film studies
- Avant-garde and experimental film and video
- Independent film
- American New Wave and auteur cinema
- American and Russian astroculture (particularly space art and space documentary film)
Teaching experience
- EFL at university level
- 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
- Avant-garde and experimental film and video
- Independent film
- Cinema and the city
- Cinema and the senses
- Major figures in cinema
- BA seminars
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)
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
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
Editorial
- Peer-reviewer for The International Journal of the Image; Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature; Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo [Humanities and Natural Science]; Screenworks; Arts; Papers on Language and Literature; ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance; Feminist Media Studies
- Guest editor, Landscape, Travel and the Gaze in Experimental Film and Video, special issue of Papers on Language and Literature 57(1)
- Book review editor, European Journal of American Studies, 2021-
Honours
- Award of the Head of the School of English of Adam Mickiewicz University for the best M.A. thesis in literary studies, 2011