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Dr hab. Monika Świerkosz, prof. UJ

Professor of the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

monika.swierkosz@uj.edu.pl

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1752-6768

EDUCATION

Habilitation - 2018, Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Polish Studies

PhD- 2012, Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Polish Studies, Doctoral degree in Humanistic Sciences in the field of Literature Studies

MA - 2006, Jagiellonian University, Faculty od Polish Studies, Master degree in the field of Literature Studies

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2022 – present Professor of the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

2018 – 2022 Associate Professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

2015 – 2018 Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

2016 – 2017 Lecturer in Gender Theory at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

2012 – 2014 Lecturer in Women’s Writing at the Institute of Polish Philology, Humanistic Sciences Department, Pedagogical University, Cracow

2012 – 2015 Post-Doctoral Fellow (National Center of Science grant holder), at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2021 Jagiellonian University Dean’s Award for a Team Academic Achievement

2016 – 2021 main grant researcher in a NPRH project: “Critical constellations. Strategies of Literary Criticism of the 20th and 21st Century”

2018 Jagiellonian University Dean’s Award for an individual academic achievement

2012 – 2015 grant holder in a NCN SONATA programme: „Arachne and Athena. Literature, Politics, and Women’s Classicism”

2005 Socrates/Erasmus Exchange Programme at UCL London

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

Arachne and Athena. Literature, Politics, and Women’s Classicism, Jagiellonian University Press, Cracow 2017.

Within the Realms of Tradition. Prose works by Olga Tokarczuk and Izabela Filipiak in Dispute on Literature, Canon, and Feminism, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2014.


Edited Books

Critical Constellations: Vol. I: Theories and Practices, Vol. II: Anthologies, ed. D. Kozicka, M. Świerkosz, K. Trzeciak, Universitas Press, Cracow 2020.

Reading into Dąbrowska, ed. D. Kozicka, M. Świerkosz, Jagiellonian University Press, Cracow 2018.

Disputed Figures in Polish Feminist Criticism After 1989, ed. M. Świerkosz, Katedra Press, Gdańsk 2016.

Fifteen Shades of Polish Feminism: Literature, Culture and Gender Discourses in Polish Academia, ed. U. Chowaniec, M. Świerkosz, „Women Online Writing Journal” 2014 no 3.


Refereed Journal Articles

A Poetics of Fungal Threads. The Posthuman Imagination of Olga Tokarczuk, „Ruch Literacki” 2022, nr 3, pp. 345–367.

Time of Microhistory and Time of Micro-theater in Olga Tokarczuk's Novels, translated by A. Kowalcze-Pawlik, “The Polish Review” 2021, Vol. 66, no 2, pp. 56-79.

Disability Beyond Fabrication. Representation, Embodiment, and the Strategies of “Staring Back”, „Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna” 2021, nr 162, DOI: 10.34762/ejh3-9784.

Revolution Beyond Politics, transl. Paweł Schreiber, „Didaskalia”, English Issue, 2000, no 3. DOI: 10.34762/bxmw-5p05.

Vulnerable bodies: Judith Butler, self-destruction, and radical acts of resistance, „Etyka”, vol. 57, Oct. 2019, pp. 69–86, doi:10.14394/27

In search of a new view: Stanisława Przybyszewska's prose between avant-garde and vernacular modernism, „Pamiętnik Literacki” 2018, nr 3, s. 35 – 50.

All Feminist Readings of Wisława Szymborska, „Ruch Literacki” 2017, nr 3, pp. 277 – 287.

Arachne and Athena: Towards a Different Poetics of Women's Writing, transl. by B. Koschalka, „Teksty Drugie” (English edition) 2017, nr 2, pp. 8 – 26.

East meets West: Changing geoperspectives in History of Sexuality Studies, „Teksty Drugie” 2014, nr 5, pp. 348 – 355.


Book Chapters

Frauenbeziehungen Maria Dąbrowskas und ihre emotional-affektive Dimension, w: Schreiben über frauenbeziehungen konstellationen, räume, texte, ed. M. Bednarczuk, J. Górny, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2022, pp. 105–129.

Revolution as a positive catastrophe: natural space, vulnerable body and radical experience of history, in: Poetics of Ecocide. History, Nature, and Conflict, ed. A. Ubertowska, D. Korczyńska-Partyka, E. Kuliś, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2019, pp. 345 – 408.

Marianna in Bluebeard’s Castle: Tropes of Female Authorship in Izabela Filipiak’s Total Amnesia, w: Polish Literature in Transformation, ed. U. Phillips, K.A. Grimstad, Kris van Heuckelom, LIT Verlag, Zürich-Berlin-London 2013, s. 115-124.

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

since 2024 - member of the jury of the Stefania Tatarówna Award for the best master's and doctoral thesis in gender studies, Jagiellonian University

since 2023 - editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed, academic journal “The Polilogue”

since 2021 member of the research platform: “Disability Studies in Eastern Europe – reconfigurations”

2017 – 2023 editorial board member of the peer-reviewed, academic journal “The Polilogue”

since 2014 founding member of the Critical Questions Research Group at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University,

2011 – 2020 - member of Research Council of the “Women’s Space Foundation”, Cracow

2017 – 2018 - Faculty Coordination of the Science and Art Festival in Cracow

2008 – 2012 - editorial board member of the academic, peer-reviewed journal „uniGENDER”

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

feminist literary studies, women’s writing, critical theory, gender studies, disability studies, embodiment and somatic philosophy, posthuman ethics