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1 Curriculum Vitae Michael J. Mikoś Address 1 Curriculum vitae Michael J. Mikoś Address: 2513 E. Shorewood Boulevard Shorewood, WI 53211 Telephone: (414) 332-1728 Email: [email protected] Education: M.A. in English, 1963, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Lublin (Poland) Diploma in Applied Linguistics, 1966, University of Edinburgh Ph.D. in Linguistics, 1977, Brown University Awards: 1965 British Council Scholarship 1976 Brown University Research Assistantship 1981 University of Wisconsin-System American Ethnic Studies Coordinating Committee grant 1982 NEH Summer Institute grant 1982 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Research Incentive Program grant 1982 Amoco Foundation Award for excellence in teaching 1985 University of Wisconsin Faculty Development grant 1987 University of Wisconsin Faculty Development grant 1988 The Kosciuszko Foundation grant 1992 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Research Incentive Program grant 1995-96 NEH Research grant 1995 AATSEEL Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship 1995 Polish PEN Club Translation Prize 1996 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Faculty/Staff Development Award 1997 Polish Ministry of Culture and Art Publication grant 1997 The Kosciuszko Foundation Publication grant 1997 The Polish Women's Club of Milwaukee Publication grant 1996-97 Turzański Foundation Award, Toronto, Canada 2002 NEH Summer Stipend 2008 Order of Merit from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. 2019 Medal of Recognition for the 100th Anniversary of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. Experience: 1963-1967, Maria Curie University, Lublin (Poland) Instructor, Department of English 2 1968-1974, Ricker College Assistant Professor, Department of English 1976-1977, Brown University Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics 1977, Brown University Instructor, Department of Slavic Languages 1978-1984 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages 1982-1983 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Assistant Coordinator of the Language Laboratories and the Simultaneous Interpretation Facility 1984-1990 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages 1985-1989 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chairman, Department of Slavic Languages 1988 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Acting Director, Language Resource Center 1990-2008 Director, Language Resource Center and the Simultaneous Interpretation Facility 1990- present, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature 2011, Spring semester, Visiting Professor, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Lublin, Poland 2013-2017, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature Membership in American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East Associations: European Languages (AATSEEL) (1978-) American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (1987-) The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) (1981-) International Association for Learning Laboratories (IALL) (1990-2008) 3 The Kosciuszko Foundation (1997-) Membership of The Sarmatian Review (1996-), The Polish Review (2000-2008), Editorial Boards: Etnolingwistyka (2006-), Milwaukee History (1987-1995), Slavic and East European Journal (1989-1992). Roczniki Humanistyczne (2012-) at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. Annales, Sectio FF, Philologiae, at Maria Curie- Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland (2015-); Annales of the Association of Polish Scholars in Lithuania (2017-). Milwaukee County Historical Society Board of Directors (1986- 1994). Member of the Metchie J. Budka Award Committee at the Kościuszko Foundation, 1996-1998. A Board member, International Committee of Slavists (2003). Board member, National Screening Committee, Institute of International Education (2000-2003). Publications Books: 1978. Problems in Polish Phonology. Ph. D. dissertation. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International. 1982. Early Maps of Poland (1508-1772) in the American Geographical Society Collection. Milwaukee: American Geographical Society Collection. 1992. Medieval Literature of Poland. An Anthology. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1994. W pogoni za Sienkiewiczem. Z odnalezionych dzienników Almy Curtin. [On the Trail of Sienkiewicz. From the Unpublished Diaries of Alma Curtin]. Warszawa: Constans. 1995. Polish Renaissance Literature. An Anthology. Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers. 1995. Treny. Laments by Jan Kochanowski. Warszawa: Constans. 2nd ed. Lublin: Norbertinum, 1998. 1996. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature. An Anthology. Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers. 1998. Adam Mickiewicz. The Sun of Liberty. Warszawa: Energeia. 4 1999. Polish Literature from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. A Bilingual Anthology. Warszawa: Constans. 1999. Juliusz Słowacki. This Fateful Power. Lublin: Norbertinum. 2002. The Virgin Mary's Crown. A Bilingual Anthology of Medieval Polish Marian Poetry. Cracow: Collegium Columbinum (with Roman Mazurkiewicz). 2002. Polish Romantic Literature. An Anthology. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. 2006. Polish Literature from 1864 to 1918. Realism and Young Poland. An Anthology. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. 2008. Polish Literature from 1918 to 2000. An Anthology. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. 2012. Zarys historii polonistyki w Ameryce Północnej. [An Outline of the History of Polish Studies in North America.] Katowice: Silesian University Press. 2015. City of Memory. A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Polish Poetry. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. 2018. Jan Kochanowski. Trifles, Songs, and St. John’s Eve Song. Lublin: John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Press. Textbooks: 1986. Polish Vocabulary and Grammar I. Milwaukee: Language Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 1988. Polish Vocabulary and Grammar II. Milwaukee: Language Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Chapters in books: 1980. Polish in the United States: a study in language change. In Studies in Ethnicity: The East European Experience in America. Ed. by C. Ward et al. New York: Columbia University Press, 15-26. l984. Język polski w Stanach Zjednoczonych: Studium przemian języka. In II Kongres Uczonych Polskiego Pochodzenia. Zbiór Materiałów. Ed. by H. Kubiak and J. Wróbel, Wrocław: Ossolineum, 259-266. 1984. Wpływ Chłopów Reymonta na Pożądanie w cieniu wiązów O'Neilla. 5 [The Influence of Stanisław Reymont’s the Peasants on Eugene O’Neills’s Desire Under the Elms.] In II Kongres Uczonych Polskiego Pochodzenia. Zbiór Materiałów. Ed. by H. Kubiak and J. Wróbel, Wrocław: Ossolineum, 405-417 (with David Mulroy). 1990. Komputer w nauczaniu języka polskiego. [Using Computers to Teach Polish]. In O język i kulturę polską w środowiskach polonijnych. Ed. by E. Kantor and J. Rokicki, Warszawa: Biblioteka Narodowa, 139-142. 1990. Historia nauczania jezyka polskiego w Stanach Zjednoczonych. [The History of Teaching Polish in the United States]. In Język polskiw świecie. Ed. by W. Miodunka, Warsaw, PWN, 335-340. Also in: O język i kulturę polską w środowiskach polonijnych, Ed. by R. Kantor and J. Rokicki, Warszawa: Biblioteka Narodowa, 143-148. 1992. Monarchs and Magnates: Maps of Poland in the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. In Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps. The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe. Ed. by David Buisseret. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 168-181. 1993. The Reception of Bolesław Prus's The Pharaoh in the United States. In Bolesław Prus. Twórczość i recepcja. Ed. by Eugenia Łoch and Stanisław Fita. Lublin: Lubelskie Towarzystwo Naukowe, 229-247. 1997. Nauczanie języka polskiego za pomocą nowych systemów technicznych oraz perspektywy na przyszłość. [Teaching Polish with New Technologies]. In Oświata polskojęzyczna za granicą. Stan obecny i perspektywy rozwoju. Ed. by Jan Mazur. Warszawa: Stowarzyszenie "Wspólnota Polska," 250-256. 2003. On faithful translations. In Workshop on Translation III. Ed. by Richard Sokoloski, Henryk Duda, and Konrad Klimkowski. Lublin—Ottawa: Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego—Slavic Research Group University of Ottawa, 141-148. 2005. Confessions of a Polish translator. In Workshop on Translation IV. Ed. by Richard Sokoloski, Henryk Duda, Konrad Klimkowski, and Jolanta Klimek. Lublin—Ottawa: Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego—Slavic Research Group University of Ottawa, 265-279. 2007. Henryk Sienkiewicz. In Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 332. Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature. Part 4. Ed. by Tracy Bitonti. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomas Gale, 234-250. 2007. Zarys historii polonistyki w Ameryce Północnej. [An Outline of the History of Polish Studies in North America]. In Literatura polska w świecie. Vol. II. Ed. by Romuald Cudak. Katowice: Silesian University Press,206-222. 6 2009. Odbiór Sienkiewiczowskiego Quo vadis w Stanach Zjednoczonych. [The Reception of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis in the United States]. In Słowa i metody. Ed. by Alina Kochańczyk et.al. Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska Press, 369-377. 2010. Synowie Hermesa: północnoamerykańscy tłumacze literatury polskiej. [Hermes’s Sons: Sienkiewicz’s Translators in North America]. In: Literatura polska w świecie. Vol. III. Ed. by Romuald Cudak. Katowice: Silesian University Press, 404-413. 2012. Obecność literatury polskiej w Ameryce Północnej i Anglii. [The Presence of Polish Literature in North America and England]. In: Literatura polska w świecie. Vol. IV. Ed. by Romuald Cudak. Katowice: Silesian Uniwersity Press, 123-130.
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