Visiting Faculty from Poland

Koehler, Krzysztof, Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor, Center for the Study of Languages, Rice University

PhD. Jagiellonian University
Phone: 12-6336377x1341/ Fax: . . . / E-Mail: . . .
MAJOR INTERESTS: Poetry
POLAND/AMERICA TRANSATLANTIC SCHOLARSHIP:
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS:

• Rice University: 1997-1998; 1999-2000

AFFILIATION IN POLAND:Institute of Polish Philology, Jagiellonian University

Polański, Andrzej K., Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Rice University

Ph.D.
Phone: 713 348-3685 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: polanski@stat.rice.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Statistics of DNA Polymorphisms POLAND/AMERICA TRANSATLANTIC SCHOLARSHIP:
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS:

• Rice University: 2001-2002

AFFILIATION IN POLAND:
Dept. of Automatic Control, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice

Skorczewski, Dariusz Andrzej, Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor of Polish Studies, Rice University @

Ph.D., Catholic University of Lublin, 2001
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MAJOR INTERESTS: Literary criticism, literary theories, history of Polish literature, Polish philology and culture, postcolonial criticism, relation between literature and politics.
POLAND/AMERICA TRANSATLANTIC SCHOLARSHIP:
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS:

• Rice University: 2001-2003

COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

• Contemporary Polish and Central European Politics and Culture
• Modern Polish Poetry in Translation
• Central and Eastern European Film
• Slavic Cultures

PRESENTATIONS

• "The Use of Modern Technology in The Teaching of Central and Eastern European Culture," Texas Foreign Language Education Conference, University of Texas in Austin,, Texas, March 2002
• New Polish poetry of the 1990s and its frustration with power. A release from bondage or a "posthumous victory of the dragon"?, Conference on Power and Power Relations in East European Politics and Societies, The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, November 2002.

AFFILIATION IN POLAND:Department of Literary Theory at Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

Rybicki, Jan, Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Assistant Professor of Polish, Rice University

PhD. Krakow Pedagogical University
Phone: .... / Fax:...... / E-Mail: strybick@cyf-kr.edu.pl
MAJOR INTERESTS: The Poetry of Adam Mickiewicz
POLAND/AMERICA TRANSATLANTIC SCHOLARSHIP:
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS:

• Rice University: 1996-1997

TRANSLATIONS

• My Several Worlds by Pearl Buck, Katowice: Od Nowa, 1994
• Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut, Warszawa: Amber, 1994
• The Beautiful and Damned by Scott Fitzgerald, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1996
• Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, Warszawa: Prószynski i Ska, 1996
• None To Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1996

AFFILIATION IN POLAND: Krakow Pedagogical University

Wilczek, Piotr, Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor of Polish Studies, Rice University

Ph.D., University of Silesia, Katowice, 1992
D. Hab., University of Silesia, Katowice, 2001
Phone: . . . / Fax . . . / E-Mail: piotrwilczek@pro.onet.pl
MAJOR INTERESTS:
Polish and Central European cultural history; Polish Literature - Humanism and Reformation, the age of Baroque, contemporary Polish literature
POLAND/AMERICA TRANSATLANTIC SCHOLARSHIP:
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS:

• Rice University: 1998-1999
• University of Illinois at Chicago: 1999-2000 i 2000-2001
• University of Chicago (concurrently): 2000-2001

COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

• Masterpieces of Polish Literature - Rice University, 1998/99.
• Eastern and Central European Film - Rice University, 1998/99.
• Religious Discourses in Early Modern Polish Poetry - University of Chicago, 2000
• Non-Fiction Genres in Post-War Polish Prose - University of Chicago, 2001
• Polish Masters of the Poetic Word - University of Chicago, 2001
• History of Polish Language - University of Illinois/Chicago, 1999-2001
• Studies in Polish Literature - "Aspects of the Sacred in Polish Poetry" - University of Illinois/Chicago, 1999-2001
• Studies in Polish Enlightenment and Romanticism - University of Illinois/Chicago, 1999-2001
• Studies in Polish Literature ? ?Polish Prose after World War II" - University of Illinois/Chicago, 1999-2001

BOOKS

• Slady egzystencji: szkice o polskich pisarzach emigracyjnych ("Traces of existance: Sketches about Polish emigree authors) by Piotr Wilczek, Sląsk Publishers, Katowice. 1997.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Czarne sezony by M. Glowinski in Chicago Review 3 & 4(2000) : 383-385
• "Speaking Volumes about Poles" by L. Klos Sokol
• Jesuits in Poland by A. F. Pollard

PUBLICATIONS

• "Images of America in Modern Polish Poetry: An Essay on Alienation" The Polish Review 3 (2001) : 303-312.
• "Polish Nobel Prize Winners in Literature: Are They Really Polish?" Chicago Review 3 & 4 (2000) : 375-377.

EDITORIAL WORK

• Co-editor of Special Issue of Postscriptum: Numer poświęcony polonistyce w Ameryce Północnej (Issue dedicated to Polish Studies in North America), 1-2, 2001
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Committee, the Sarmatian Review, Huston, TX

AFFILIATION IN POLAND: Faculty of Philology, University of Silesia-Katowice