Work University of Southern California, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Anna Krakus [email protected]

Work University of Southern California, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Assistant Professor, Tenure Track Since July 2012

Education New York University Department of Comparative Literature: Ph.D. May 2012, Dissertation Title: No End in Sight: Complicated Closures in Late Communism in Poland” M.A. Thesis Title: ”Grammar As Guilt: Linguistically Murdering Marie in Büchner’s Woyzeck”

Stockholm University, Sweden B.A. Comparative Literature 2 years of Law School

Fellowships & Grants 2015 Södertörn University, Sweden, Centre for Baltic and Eastern European Studies (Fall) 2015 Ricklundgården, Saxnäs, Sweden, Residential Research Stay (August) 2011 Sverige-Amerika Stiftelsens Stipendium (declined) 2009 NYU GSAS Pre-dissertation Fellowship 2009 Helge Ax:son Johnson Fellowship 2007 Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship 2006 New York University Full Tuition Scholarship 2006 The J. William Fulbright Scholarship for non U.S. Students

Publications Book:

No End in Sight: Polish Cinema and Literature in the Late Socialist Period (Under contract with Pittsburgh University Press) Articles:

“Men of Paper: Polish Lustration Law and Its Biographical Basis” (currently revising for Slavic Review)

“Death is Merely a Comma: Immortality in the Cinema and Literature of Tadeusz Konwicki” (currently revising for Studies in Eastern European Cinema)

“Zanussoids and Their Metaphysical Angst”, (forthcoming in East European Film Bulletin)

“Revealing the Past: The Formerly Secret Police Files in Poland and Andrzej Wajda’s Counter-Archive” Perspectives on Europe spring, 2015

”The Uses and Abuses of Censorship: An Interview with Andrzej Wajda”, Cineaste (April 2014) “I Hereby Find You Guilty of Cheating” in ed. David Cowan, Sociolegal Studies, (Palgrave MacMillan, Summer 2012) (edited volume) “Crime Stories: The Polish Secret Police File and the Conflation of the Legal and the Literary” in Law and Humanities, Vol. 5, No. 1 (June 2011) (peer reviewed) Guest editor. Law and Literature, Special Issue “Law and Literature Today” Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer 2011) ”Police Aesthetics”, in Samlaren (Uppsala: Uppsala Unversity Press, 2012) (Review Essay)

“Lov og Litteratur” in Samlaren, (Uppsala: Uppsala University Press, 2007) (Review Essay)

Invited Speaker “Polish Cinema After Forever” at Stockhol University Advanced Seminar in Polish Studies, Stockholm, November 30, 2015 “But it is Our Country: Historical Rewriting in the Polish 1970s" CBEES Advanced Seminar, Stockholm, December 14, 2015 “After Forever: Polish Cinema after 1989” To be presented at Kino Polskie jako kino Transnarodowe, Krakow, November 26, 2015 “Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds” at Martin Scorsese Presents, Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Bing Theater, May, 2014 (Invitation from The Motion Pictures Academy) Discussant on round table, “Ethnographies of the Communist Secret Police”,

2 Anna Krakus CV

ASEEES , Boston, 2013 “Fear of the Files: Archive as Alibi in Post-socialist Poland” , Workshop/lecture, Center for Law Culture and Humanities, USC Gould Law School, September 25, 2013 Attendant at the West Coast Retreat, respondent on graduate student workshop, at the University of Washington, Law School, Seattle, September 2013 “Fear of the Files: Building an Alibi in Post Communist Poland” Dept. of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine, November 22, 2010

Select Conference Presentations “Nostalgia for the Present: the Socialist Past in Contemporary Polish Cinema" at "Places and Non-Places of Modernity Movement, Memory and Imagination in Contemporary Europe" at Södertörn University, Stockholm, December 3-4, 2015, (forthcoming) “Constitutional Amendments and Historical Rewriting in the Polish 1970s” on panel “Jurispolitics: Law, Legitimacy, Power” at the annual meeting for the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities, March 6, 2015, Washington DC Chair and panelist: “Secrecy and Exposure During the Cold War and the War on Terror” at The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities (ASLCH) at the University of Virginia Law School, March 2014 “Fear of the Files: Andrzej Wajda Building an Alibi in post-Communist Poland”, ASEEES, Boston, November 2013 “Moments of Unfinalizability in Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble” American Comparative Literature Association, April 1-4, 2010 New Orleans, LA “Law and Literature, or Law and Society?” at Hors Normes: Colloque International de Droit et Litterature, Ecole Normal Superieure, November 20- 22, 2010, Paris, France “I Hereby Find You Guilty of Cheating: How Television Judges Give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions” at Intersections of Law and Culture, October 2- 4, 2009, Lugano Switzerland.

Organizer of two panels regarding “New Regions of Interest for the Field of Law and Humanities” and “New Theoretical Approaches to the Field of Law and Humanities” at the Rutgers Centennial Celebration April 23-35 2009,

3 Rutgers, NJ Organizer of a panel on “Law and Literature” at Codex and Code: Aesthetics, Language, and Politics at an Age of Digital Media, (NorLit) August 6-9 2009, Stockholm, Sweden "But it is our country": (Un)finalizability of the Republic in Wajda's The Man of Marble at The Ranieri Conference on Ancient Studies, Discourses of Republicanism, November 2008, New York University, NY“ “Visualizing Power: Politics and Penalty From Premodern Europe to Contemporary United States”, at The Critical Legal Conference at Birkbeck, September 5-7, 2007, London, United Kingdom “It's very difficult in hindsight to explain...Troublesome testimonies and the construction of meaning in silence”, at Beyond Reasonable Doubt, September 2007, Cambridge, UK

Professional Affiliations Member of Steering committee USC Center for Law History and Culture, (2013- present) Member of the international Research Group “Humanistic Legal Studies: On the Construction of Legal Narratives” University of Bergen, Norway (2013- present) Officer of the Board & Treasurer, the Law and Humanities Institute, (2010- present) Board member of the Nordic Network for Law and Literature Member of the American Comparative Literature Association, Member of the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies Member of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities

Languages Native fluency: Swedish, English, Polish Understand and reading: Norwegian, Danish Reading: French, German