Polish Studies at University of Houston

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ENGL: Creative Writing: Poetry @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: A Graduate Poetry Workshop taught each spring by A. Zagajewki, noted Polish poet
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Zagajewski, A.

Faculty

Grabiec, Andrzej Professor of Violin, Moores School of Music, Univeristy of Houston @

M.M., Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music
Phone: (713)743-3152 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: a.grabiec@worldnet.att.net
MAJOR INTERESTS:Performance as soloist in symphonic concerts performing works by Karol Szymanowski, Grazyna Bacewicz, and Henryk Wieniawski
POLAND-RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
RECORDINGS

• Soloist and Concertmaster of the Polish National Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra

Urquhart, Gregory Teacher, Language and Culture Center, Univeristy of Houston@

M.A., Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
Phone: . . . / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: englmm@jetson.uh.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Teaching English as a Foreign Language
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
AWARDS

• Fulbright Scholarship, Poland - teaching English as Second Language

Zagajewski, Adam Visiting Professor of English, Univeristy of Huston @

M.A., Jagellonian University (Krakow, Poland)
Phone: 713-743-2969 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: . . .
MAJOR INTERESTS: The political and philosophical aspects of totalitarianism: one of the most widely known Polish poets, and essayists in the world.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP @:
POETRY

• Komunikat (Communique). Cracow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1972.
• Sklepy miesne (Meat Shops). Cracow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1975.
• Letter: An Ode to Multiplicity. Paris: Instytut Literacki, 1983.
• Jechac do Lwowa (Travelling to Lwow). London: Aneks, 1985.
• Plotno . Paris: Zeszyty Literackie, 1990. TRANS: R. Gorczynski, C. K. Williams , B. Ivry, Canvas, New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991
• Ziemia ognista (The Fiery Land). Poznan: a5, 1994.
• Pragnienie (Desire). Cracow: a5, 1999.
• Without end : new and selected poems, TRANS: C. Cavanagh, R. Gorczynski, B. Ivry, and C.K. Williams New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001
  
• Mysticism for beginners, trans: C. Cavanagh, New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, c1997.

NOVELS AND OTHER PROSE

• Cieplo, zimno (Warm and Cold). Warsaw: PIW, 1975.
• Cienka kreska (The Thin Line). Cracow: Znak, 1978.

ESSAYS

• Swiat nieprzedstawiony (The Unpresented World) (With Julian Kornhauser). Cracow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1974.
• Drugi oddech (Second Wind). Cracow: Znak, 1978.
• Solidarnosc i samotnosc . Paris: Zeszyty literackie, 1986; TRANS: Solidarity, solitude : essays Ecco Press, 1990)
• Dwa miasta. Paris-Cracow, 1991. TRANS: L. Vallee Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination, Univ. of Georgia Press, 2002
• W cudzym pieknie. Cracow: a5, 1998. TRANS: C. Cavanagh, Another Beauty, New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000.

META-FACULTY - Faculty who have studied and/or taught at Polish institutions of higher education

Czernuszewicz, Roman Associate Professor of Chemistry, Univeristy of Huston @

M. Sc.,Technical University of Wroclaw, 1975

Ph.D., Marquette University, 1981
Phone: (713) 743-3235 / Fax: (713) 743-2709 / E-Mail: roman@uh.edu

MAJOR INTERESTS: Analytical-Bioinorganic Chemistry

Fajtlowicz, Siemion Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston@ @

Ph.D., Mathematical Institute, Polish Academy of Science, 1967

Phone: (713) 743-3458 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: siemion@math.uh.edu

MAJOR INTERESTS: Machine intelligence, graph theory, universal algebra