prof. UAM dr hab.Paulina Ambroży

Paulina Ambroży
University professor

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Degrees

  • M.A. in English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań 1999
  • Ph.D. in American literature, Adam Mickiewicz University, 2003
  • D.Litt. in American literature, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, 2013

Research interests

  • Modernist American poetry
  • Contemporary American poetry
  • American Literature of the Romantic period
  • Theory of literature
  • Chicano/a poetry
  • Intermedial Studies
  • Ekphrastic poetry
  • Ecocriticism
  • Nature writing
  • American Graphic novel

Teaching experience

  • History of American Literature
  • Theory of literature
  • Intermedial studies
  • Introduction to Literary Studies
  • MA and BA seminars

Professional organizations

  • Polskie Stowarzyszenie Studiów Amerykanistycznych (Polish Association for American Studies)
  • European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
  • European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM)
  • Modern Language Association

Other organizations, societies, clubs, etc.

  • Wallace Stevens Society
  • Polskie Stowarzyszenie Stypendystów Fulbrighta

Scholarships

  • Fulbright Junior Grant 2002/2003 Stanford University
  • JFK Institute Foundation for North American Studies at Free University, Berlin 2001
  • JFK Institute Foundation for North American Studies at Free University, Berlin 2008
  • Clifford and Mary Corbridge Trust Scholarship, Robinson College, Cambridge University, UK (2013, 2014, 2015)
  • Senior Fulbright Advanced Research Grant, The University of Chicago, USA, September-March 2014-2015

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • Polish Association for American Studies Conference, Toruń, 2000
  • Polish Association for American Studies Conference, Poznań, 2003
  • Polish Association for American Studies Conference, Kamień Śląski, October 2005
  • European Association for American Studies Conference, Nicosia, 2006
  • Polish Association for American Studies Conference, “Ideology and Rhetoric”, Warsaw, 2006
  • "American Poetry in Europe: Teaching, Translation, Reception" Symposium, Poznań, 2007
  • Polish Association for American Studies Conference, "Communication Technologies and American Cultural Practice," Łódź 2007
  • The Annual Fatih University Conference on Literary and Cultural Studies, Stambuł 2008
  • Polish Association for American Studies Conference, “The Past and the Present: The American Uses of History,” Warsaw, 2008
  • “Tradycja, formy i przemiany dyskursu podróżniczego w literaturach narodowych,” University of Białystok, Białowieża-Białystok, Poland 2009
  • Polish Association for American Studies Conference, "American Diversity: Identities, Narratives, Politics", Łódź, 2010
  • Polish Association for American Studies Conference, American Experience, the Experience of America; paper: “Wading through Black Jade in Marianne Moore 痴 Sunken Cathedral: The Modernist Sea Poem as the Fold”, Gdańsk 2011
  • 8th Literature in English Symposium (LIES), Poznań, UAM
  • 3rd Biannual Conference of the European Network for Modernist and Avant-Garde Studies, Kent University; paper „The Interior Seen: Decoration and Psychology in Henry James and Edouard Vuillard” (with Prof. David Cottington); Canterbury UK, 2012
  • PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Annual Conference, "Eating America", Wrocław, Poland, October 2013
  • “Borderlands”, University of Białystok, May 2014
  • Semiotica: International Semiotic Conference, University of Łódź, May, 24-27, 2015, Title of paper: “Rendezvous of Light”: Emily Dickinson, Luminists and the Sign of the Absolute
  • Polish Association for American Studies Conference, “Homeliness, Domesticity and Security in American Culture”, SWPS, Warsaw, September 23-25, 2015; title of paper: “It Ghosts: Language as a Haunted Dwelling in Modernist American Poetry”
  • 15th LIES Conference, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, May 15-16, 2015, “Poetry and Beyond”; title of paper: “Signs of Absence in the Multimedial Plenum: The Musico-Poetic Experiments of Susan Howe”
  • Biennial European Association of American Studies Conference, Constanta, Romania, 22-25 April, 2016; title: “’The Third Image’: Ekphrasis and Memory in Charles Simic’s Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell”
  • ExRe(y): Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture, Maria-Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, April 7-8, 2016; title: “Portraits Painterly and Poetic: John Ashbery and Gerhard Richter”
  • Innovative Poetries – Innovations in Poetry, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland, 29-30 September, 2016; title: “The Plastic Poetics of the Contemporary Organic Poem: Kacper Bartczak’s Wiersze organiczne and Adam Dickinson’s The Polymers”
  • Polish Association for American Studies Conference, American Studies Center, Warsaw, October 27-29 2016: “’A Letter to the World’”: American Poetry and Polish Critical Audiences”

Organizer of international conferences and congresses

  • The Annual Conference of the Polish Association for American Studies, "The Natural and the Artificial" Poznań 19-21 October 2003
  • "American Poetry in Europe: Teaching, Translation, Reception" Symposium, Poznań, May 2007, co-organizer (with Magdalena Zapędowska)
  • REAL Student Symposium “Memory and Historicity: Postmodern Struggles with the Past”, Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University, March 2014
  • Head of the organizing committee of the international conference America and Deep Time: Alternate Geographies, Temporalities, and Histories, The Polish Association for American Studies  2023 Annual Conference, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 25-27 October 2023

Honors

  • Prize of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University for teaching excellence, 2018