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Polish Studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Institution
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a comprehensive, major public university that is ranked among the best in the world. As a land-grant institution chartered in 1867, it provides undergraduate and graduate education in more than 150 fields of study, conducts both theoretical and applied research, and provides public service to the state and the nation.The campus includes 214 major buildings on nearly 1,500 acres, with about 2,000 faculty members serving 28,000 undergraduates and 10,000 graduate and professional students. The annual budget is about $1 billion, of which about 27 percent comes from state appropriations and the rest from tuition, gifts, grants, contracts, and other revenues.
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Polish Studies are primarily the province of the Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures. It offers courses in Polish
language, literature, and linguistics. Its Ph.D. program accommodates also
Polish literature and linguistics.
Polish Studies Courses
- POLISH 101-102 Elementary Polish I, II @@
- COURSE DESCRIPTION: Oral and written work
on basic pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. For students with no prior
work in Polish.
COURSE TEXT: Elementary Polish I-II
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Gladney, F.
- POLISH 103-104 Intermediate Polish I, II @
- COURSE DESCRIPTION: Grammar review,
selected readings, written exercises, and conversation practice.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Gladney. F.
- POLISH 215 Introduction to Polish Literature, I @
- COURSE DESCRIPTION: Reading and discussion of representative prose and poetry works of Polish authors up to 1863. All readings are in the original language.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Gladney. F.
- POLISH 216 Introduction to Polish Literature, II @
- COURSE DESCRIPTION: Reading and discussion
of representative prose and poetry works of Polish authors since 1863. All
readings are in the original language.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Gladney. F.
- POLISH 345 Polish Literature in Translation I @
- COURSE DESCRIPTION: Critical survey, in translation, of Polish literature from the Middle Ages to the end of the nineteenth century; special attention given to the works in their cultural context.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Bristol, E.
- POLISH 346 Polish Literature in Translation II @
- COURSE DESCRIPTION: Critical study in translation,
of modern Polish fiction, drama, poetry, and essay, from Young Poland to the
"New Wave"; their conttribution to literary styles and genres in Poland and
abroad;special emphasis on Wyspianski, Witkiewicz, and Gombrowicz.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Bristol, E.
- POLISH 385 The Structure of Modern Polish @
- COURSE DESCRIPTION: Analysis of the sound system and grammar of the contemporary Polish language.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Gladney. F.
- POLISH 386 Readings in Polish @
- COURSE DESCRIPTION: Readings and analysis
of selected texts.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Gladney F.
Faculty
- Bristol, Evelyn C., Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign @
- Ph. D. University of California at Berkeley
Phone: (217) 333-3443 / Fax:...... / E-Mail: ebristol@staff.uiuc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS:Russian literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Russian poetry.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
- Gladney, Frank Y., Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign @
- Ph. D. Harvard University, 1966
Phone: (217) 244-3071 / Fax:...... / E-Mail: gladney@uiuc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS:Slavic linguistics
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES PUBLICATIONS:- Handbook of Polish (Urbana, 1983).Ed.
- "Polish Syllables: A Review Article", Slavic and East European Journal, 38 (1994), 149-60.
- "On the Syllabification of High Vowels in Late Common Slavic," Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 5 (1997), 233-50.
META FACULTY - Faculty who have studied and/or taught at Polish institutions of higher education
- Sroka, Marek, Assistant Professor of Library Administration @
- M.A, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 1986
Phone: (217) 333-5795 / Fax: . . . / e-mail: m-sroka@uiuc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Libraries in Poland
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
PRESENTATIONS::- "The Destruction of Jewish Libraries and Archives in Cracow (Krakow) During World War II"
- "'Soldiers of the Cultural Revolution': The Stalinization of Libraries and Librarianship in Poland, 1945-1953." Library History 16, no. 2 (November 2000): 105-125
- "The Web Site of the Institute of Library and Information Science at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow." Slavonic & East European Information Resources 1, no. 1 (2000): 101-103.
- "Polish bibliographies in electronic format: questionsof contents, structure, access and bibliographic standards." InternationalCataloguing and Bibliographic Control 26, no. 4 (October/December 1997): 79-82
- "The University of Cracow Library under Nazi Occupation: 1939-1945." Libraries & Culture 34, no. 1 (Winter 1999)
Poland-Related Resources
Slavic and East European Library on UIUC @
The Polish collection has about 49,494 volumes. There are about 11,425 volumes in Polish literature including standard collected editions of the major authors and a fairly complete selection of literary history and criticism. 10,175 volumes are in Polish history; holdings in Polish law are substantial. Retrospective periodical holdings are extensive in most fields. @Russian and East European Center (REEC) @
Founded in 1959, the Russian and East European Center (REEC) at the University of Illinois serves as an intellectual and institutional center for members of the university community and the public interested in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the newly independent states of Eurasia. Devoted to promoting and disseminating knowledge about the region, the Center supports undergraduate and postgraduate training programs and seeks to foster a lively intellectual life through conferences, lectures, colloquia, visiting scholars, faculty and graduate student seminars and study groups, exhibits, films, and social activities. The Center combines commitment to the university community with regional and national service to the profession, individual scholars, the schools, and the public.| RETURN TO MAIN PAGE | SEARCH INFO-POLAND SITE | SEND YOUR COMMENTS |
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