Coming up soon (October 2025): Kafka's bIopic, Franz, by Agnieszka Holland.
Planned next: a biopic of Jerzy Kosiński tentatively called Rabbit Garden.
@krzysztofeborowski.bsky.social
Faculty at UW–Madison. Scholar of Multilingualism & Slavic Cultures. Language, Identity & Digital Humanities in Post-Socialist Europe. President, North American Association of Teachers of Polish. Academic profile: gns.wisc.edu/staff/borowski-krzysztof-e
Coming up soon (October 2025): Kafka's bIopic, Franz, by Agnieszka Holland.
Planned next: a biopic of Jerzy Kosiński tentatively called Rabbit Garden.
From Nobel Prize–winning poet Wisława Szymborska, a dazzling bilingual collection of verse that reveals her signature themes and techniques.
Enjoy a free sample of Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts and save 30% with code PUP30:
🚨 Academic job alert!
We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.
Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!
Bartłomiej Błesznowski writes, "Subversive Modernity: Popular Institutions and Peasant Autobiographies in Poland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" for #SlavicReview. Read with open access.
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It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.
05.06.2025 08:04 — 👍 279 🔁 79 💬 16 📌 14💼 Job alert: Associate Professor/Professor in Polish History and the Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto.
More details: www.history.utoronto.ca/about-us/emp...
#HistoryJobs #AcademicJobs #PolishHistory #PolishStudies
Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy
In Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska examines what happens when translators, poets, and artists expose the act of translation by placing parallel translation variants next to one another in a standalone work of art.
Out now: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
New book in #PolishStudies:
Dialogue and Influence: Essays on Polish and American Poets by Piotr Florczyk.
More: www.academicstudiespress.com/9798887197166
How does autofiction contend with technologically mediated ways of seeing and projecting the self? In our read of the week, Marek Makowski produces “A New Exercise in Looking”: Experiments in Autofiction and the Novels of Olga Tokarczuk. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...
08.05.2025 19:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Fancy doing research in Poland? Check out the Mieroszewski Scholarship Programme – up to 9 months of funding for researchers and great academic networking. Highly recommended! 26.05-26.06 – submission of applications mieroszewski.pl/en/scholarsh...
27.05.2025 14:03 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Interesting on imagining the scope and the present of Polish fashion, which Karolina Sulej (author of a book about clothes in concentration camps) dates to 1918, and the many kinds of Poland that fashion has cultivated since as an incubator of diversity of sorts culture.pl/en/article/p...
17.05.2025 12:30 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Fascinating piece on the representation of Thailand in White Lotus Season Three, by @burrata.bsky.social via @asianstudies.org #AsianNow blog www.asianstudies.org/the-farang-g...
16.05.2025 04:46 — 👍 21 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0Being able to locate a Zoom link in time to join the meeting should now count as a basic academic job requirement.
14.05.2025 22:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very much and thank you!
14.05.2025 16:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A screenshot of a Polityka magazine news headline featuring a Polish crest-style white eagle with a body of a human and a caption that reads, "Poland is being praised abroad like never before. Is it time to start worrying?"
This might be the most Polish thing you see today.
"Poland is being praised abroad like never before. Is it time to start worrying?"
Miłej niedzieli! #Poland #Polska
I watched a 1997 movie this Saturday and it was supposed to feature a Russian mafia boss before it turned out that the boss's name was Alexei Vassili Sergei Fyodor Jovanovic, which then made me automatically explain why that random name combo was unlikely to be authentically Russian. #SlavistsAtWork
11.05.2025 06:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
My audiobook, at a discount:
Thank you for the thing, Katia! Such a time- and lifesaver.
11.05.2025 04:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Congrats on the book, gratulacje! 👏
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