GRZEGORZ KOSC American Studies Center, University of Warsaw Al. Niepodleglosci 22, 02–653 Warsaw e-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION Habilitation (post-doctoral degree) in humanities, literary studies, University of Lodz, 26 Jun 2015 PhD in American Literature, University of Lodz, English Institute, 23 Feb 2001 Dissertation: “The Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres: Robert Lowell Between Modernism and Post-Modernism.” Advisor: Professor Agnieszka Salska. PhD program 1 Oct. 1996–20 Oct 2000. MA in American Studies, University of Warsaw, American Studies Center, 6 Oct 1999 Thesis: “Two Sides of the Moon: Van Wyck Brooks and Lewis Mumford in Search for a Program of America’s Cultural Renewal.” Supervisor: Professor Piotr Skurowski MA in American Literature, University of Lodz, English Institute, 26 Aug 1996 Thesis: “The Developments of Narrative Realism in the Fiction of Henry James and Peter Taylor.” Supervisor: Professor Agnieszka Salska OTHER School of Criticism and Theory (SCT), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; a seminar on globalization by Perry Anderson, 25th session, Jun–Aug 2001 Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota, Department of English, Mar–Jun 1996 Chichester College of Technology, England, Teacher Training Program, Mar–Apr 1992 EXPERIENCE American Studies Center, University of Warsaw (tel: +48 22 5533321; [email protected]) Current status: associate professor, since 2006 . Culture Wars in American Monumental Art, 2015 . American Monuments, Fall 2014 . Race in American Visual Culture 2014 . Photography in American Literature 2012–2013 . Politics in American Literature, fall 2012 . American Political Body, fall 2012 . Postwar American Drama, fall 2011 . Academic Writing, BA program, first-year students, 2010–11, fall 2012 . American Short Story, 2009 . American Literature before 1945, 2009 . American Poetry after 1945, 2007–2009 . American Nationalism and Collective Memory, 2007–2008 . Photographs about America, 2007–2008, 2010 . MA Seminar, American Writer in the Public Sphere, 2006–2008 . Course “Photography in American literature” awarded from an innovative teaching fund of the University of Warsaw, fall 2012 . Agnieszka Kotwasinska’s MA thesis, written under my supervision, received, from the Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS), the Annual Award for the Best American Studies Master’s Thesis Written at a Polish University ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS . Director, Warsaw University, Dec. 2016- . Reviewing Committee at the English Institute of the University of Warsaw (Komisja Oceniająca, Instytut Anglistyki), March 16, 2018 . Deputy Director for Research of the Institute of the Americas and Europe (IAIE), University of Warsaw, 2016 . Head of the IAIE Election Committee, 2016 . Head of the ASC Admissions Committee, Sep 2012, 2013–2017 . Member on the ASC Admissions Committee, Jul 2012, Jul 2010, Jun 2008 . Coordinating American Studies Colloquium Lecture Series at the American Studies Center, 2016-2017 . Coordinating the American literature survey course in the B.A. program, 2012–2016, 2018- 2019 . Organizing an American studies session for the Warsaw Science Festival, Sep 24–25, 2007 SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities . PhD Supervisor, May 2018 American Literature and Culture Department, English Institute, University of Lodz (tel.: +48 665 52 20; [email protected]) associate professor, since 14 Oct 2000–30 Sep 2016 . Introduction to Literary Studies, 2014 . American Literature survey course, lecture, 2014 . Photography in Literature, MA seminar, fall 2012 . Proseminar “Literature Before 1945,” fall 2012 . American culture seminars (third- and fourth-year students), 2001–2010 . Literary Theory, a lecture, 2001–2010 . Introduction to American culture (first-year students), 1996–2010 . American Literature, a survey course (third-year students), 2000–2002, 2009–2010 . Composition, translation, and conversation classes (fourth- and third-year students), 2000– 2003 ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS . Chair of the American Studies Section, 2012–2016 . Member of the English Institute Council, 2012–2016 . Coordinator of the B.A. program of the English-Institute and Journalism Department fall 2012 . Organizing the visit of David Gewanter, a co-editor of Robert Lowell’s Collected Poems (2005) 2006 . Organizing a series of conferences on American regions in cooperation with the US Embassy, 2002–2004: “Contemporary American South,” Sep 16–19, 2002; “The Many American Wests,” Sep 21–25, 2003; “New England and the Urban Northeast,” September 19–22, 2004 . Secretary of the Admissions Committee, Jun–Jul 2005 . Member of the Admissions Committee, 2002 Spanish Philology Department, University of Lodz English language advanced course, 2012–2013 Introduction to American Culture, a lecture 2009–2012 Translation courses for first- and second years students, spring 2012 English Philology Department, Wszechnica Swietokrzyska, Kielce American literature survey course, 2004–2010 History of American literature, a lecture, 2004–2010 English Philology Department, College of Humanities and Economics WSHE, Lodz BA seminar in Contemporary Am. Literature for third-year students, 2002–2006 MA seminar, 2003–2006 English as a Foreign Language, WSHE, Lodz Teaching English to first- and second-year students, 1997–98 RESEARCH/TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS National Science Center Poland (NCN), OPUS Research Grant for 2019–2021. “Problemy finansowe Roberta Lowella a kryzys modernizmu” [Robert Lowell’s Economic Experience and the Crisis of Modernism] 2018/29/B/HS2/00749; grant amount: 196,728.00 zloty Eccles Centre Visiting European Fellow in North American Studies Award, 2018–2019, The British Library, London Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Frederic D. Weinstein Memorial Fellowship, University of Austin, Texas, 2016–2017 National Science Center Poland (NCN), OPUS Research Grant for 2013–2016. “Zapomniana proza amerykanskiego poety Roberta Lowella” [The unknown prose of the American poet Robert Lowell] UMO-2012/07/B/HS2/01590 National Science Center Poland (NCN), OPUS Research Grant for Jan 2012–Jun 2013. “Cialo polityczne amerykanskiego poety Roberta Frosta” [The “political body” of the American poet Robert Frost] UMO-2011/01/B/HS2/06117 University of Lodz, Rector’s Second-Degree Award for Robert Frost’s Political Body, 2016 JFK Institute of the Free University in Berlin, research fellowship, Nov–Dec 2010 Fulbright Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Literature, Chicago, IL, c/o Prof. Robert von Hallberg, Aug 2008–May 2009 Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Woodward & Bernstein Fellowship/Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, University of Austin, Texas, 2006–2007 University of Lodz, Rector’s First-Degree Award for the book Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone, 2006 John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Kennedy Research Grant, Jul 2005 Houghton Library of the Harvard College, Stanley J. Kahrl Fellowship in Literary Manuscripts, 2002– 2003 JFK Institute of the Free University in Berlin, research fellowship, Oct–Nov 1999 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Studies Network 2017-2018, jury member of the ASN Book Prize for the year 2017 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), since 2011 Modern Language Association (MLA), since 2011 Robert Frost Society, since 2010 2013–2019, Executive Board member 2013, 2019, President of Robert Frost Society “Re-Mystifying Robert Frost”—a panel sponsored by the Robert Frost Society for the 2013 MLA Convention, January 4, 2013 “Robert Frost and the Question of Inheritance” and “Robert Frost’s Inspirations”—two sessions for the 2013 ALA Conference in Boston, May 24, 2013 “New Trends in Robert Frost Criticism”—a session sponsored by the Robert Frost Society for the 2019 MLA Convention, January 2019 “RF and Animal Studies”-- a session sponsored by the Robert Frost Society for the 2019 ALA Confernece, May 2019 “RF’s Political Philosophy”-- a session sponsored by the Robert Frost Society for the 2019 ALA Confernece, May 2019 Robert Lowell Society, since 2007 Advisory Board member Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS), since 1996 2017–2021, Vice-President 2014–2017, Board member (Treasurer) 2012–2014, member of the audit committee 2012, 2016, jury member for the PAAS Annual Best MA Thesis Award EDITORIAL Text Matters (English Institute, Lodz University), review editor, since 2009 PEER REVIEWING The Americanist (University of Warsaw), 02.2014 EJAS – European Journal for American Studies, 03.2008, 12.2012, 04.2016, 04.2017 PJAS – Polish Journal for American Studies, 04.2017 RFR – Robert Frost Review, 07.2016 University of Warsaw Press, 03.2011 Litteraria Copernicana (Instytut Literatury Polskiej UMK), 10.2016 A/R/T Journal (University of Lodz), 08.2017 BOOKS Robert Frost’s Political Body. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014. 346 pages Second Degree Award from the Rector of the University of Lodz Reviews: Paulina Ambrozy, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 50, no. 1 (2015): 95–99; Andrew Hodgson, Journal of American Studies 50, no. 2 (May 2016) E23; Timothy O’Brien, Robert Frost Review 25 (2015): 125–30; Agnieszka Salska, Polish Journal of American Studies 9 (2015): 168–74; Donald G. Sheehy, Review of English Studies 67 no. 281 (2016): 822–24. Citation Index: Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005. 338 pages First Degree Award from the Rector of the University of Lodz Reviews: Joanna Durczak, Polish Journal of American Studies 2 (2008): 157–61; Frank Kearful, “Poetry: The