Polish Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Polish Study Courses

Polish 111 19th-Century Polish Literature and Culture @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: A survey of the major works of nineteenth-century Polish literature and culture in English translation. Some readings in Polish for students who can use the language.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Holmgren, B and Levine, M.

Polish 112 20th-Century Polish Literature and Culture @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: A survey of the major works of nineteenth-century Polish literature and culture in English translation. Some readings in Polish for students who can use the language.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Holmgren, B and Levine, M.

Language Instruction

Polish 101/102 Beginning Polish @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course presents the foundations of Polish grammar and develops basic reading, writing, and pronunciation skills. No prerequisites. Counts towards the GE Foreign Languages Requirement.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Holmgren, B and Levine, M.

Polish 103/104 Intermediate Polish @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Continuation of the proficiency-based instruction begun in Elementary Polish.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Holmgren, B and Levine, M.

Polish 105/106 Advance Polish @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Advanced readings and discussion in Polish in humanities and social science topics.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Holmgren, B and Levine, M.

Poland-Related Courses

Slavic 164 Jews in Polish and Russian Literature @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Explores the fictional representation of Jewish life in Russia and Poland by Russian, Polish and Jewish authors from the nineteenth century to the present.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Holmgren, B and Levine, M.

History 60 Eastern Europe Since 1815 @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course follows the history of Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century to the present. Special emphasis will be given to the lands of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and the former Yugoslavia.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Bryant, C

Faculty

Bryant, Chad Assistant Professor of History Department @

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2002
Phone: (919) 843-3067 / Fax: ... / E-Mail: bryantc@email.unc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Nationalism, state practices, and the politics of everyday life in modern Eastern Europe.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES

• Eastern Europe since 1815

Holmgren, Beth Professor of Russian and Polish Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill @ @

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1987
Phone: (919) 962-7554 / Fax: 919-962-2278 / E-Mail: beth_holmgren@unc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Modern Russian and Polish literatures and cultures, ranging from the last turn of the century to the present day.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS

• Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies), University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998

COURSES

• 19th and 20th-Century Polish Literature and Culture
• Beginning, Intermediate and Advance Polish
• Jews in Polish and Russian Literature
• Slavic Immigrant Experience in Literature
• 20th-Century Russian and Polish Theater

Janda, Laura A. Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures @

Ph.D. University of California, 1984
Phone: (919) 962-7549 / Fax: ... / E-Mail: janda@unc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Specialized in West Slavic linguistics and in cognitive linguistics
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS

• Common and Comparative Slavic: Phonology and Inflection with Special Emphasis on Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgaria, Slavica Publishers, 1996

COURSES

• West Slavic Linguistics

Levine, Madeline G. Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill @

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1971
Phone: (919) 962-7553 / Fax: ... / E-Mail: mgl@unc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Teaching mainly about Russian literature and writing about things Polish. Publications, including criticism and literary translations, are focused predominantly on twentieth-century Polish literature.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS

• Contemporary Polish Poetry, Nineteen Twenty-Five to Nineteen Seventy-Five, Gale Group,1981
• Translations of Bogdan Wojdowski's Bread for the Departed,1997
• Translations of Agata Tuszynska's Landscapes of Memory: In Search of Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Jews of Poland, 1998

COURSES

• 19th and 20th-Century Polish Literature and Culture
• Beginning, Intermediate and Advance Polish
• Jews in Polish and Russian Literature
• Slavic Immigrant Experience in Literature

Vuletic, Ivana Assistant Professor of South Slavic Literatures @

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1996
Phone: (919) 962-7556 / Fax: ... / E-Mail: ivuletic@email.unc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Modern South Slavic literatures, aslo interested in different critical approaches: a survey of Russian and East European literary criticism
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES

• Literature in Eastern Europe

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

Grzesik, Wojciech Research Assistant Professor of Periodontology @

Ph.D. University of Warsaw, School of Medicine, 1989
Phone: (919) 966-5274 / Fax: ... / E-Mail: wojciech_grzesik@dentistry.unc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Medicine
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:...

Poland-related Resources

• Polish Collection @: UNC-CH Library has a sizable collection of Polish materials of approximately 19,476 volumes. It includes major reference works, dictionaries, selective belles-letra, poetry and literary criticism. In the areas of History, Economics, and Political Science, the Library holds only major publications.

• Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures @: It is the oldest Ph.D.-granting program in Slavic languages and literatures in the southern United States. The graduate programs proffer general professional development and specialized training in Russian, Polish, or Serbian and Croatian literatures, and in Slavic linguistics.

• Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center @: The collaboration with Poland began with the planning and implementation of a pilot study in 1980-81. A baseline survey screened over 5,000 men and women aged 35-64 in Warsaw and Cracow in 1983-84. A second survey was done in 1987-88 with the second screen also containing a rescreen of 25 percent of the initial survey. A third survey began in 1992 and continued through 1994. Mortality follow-up and community surveillance for CVD in the populations sampled remains as an ongoing activity.

• Libraries in Poland @: Provides links to National Libraries, University Libraries and Public Libraries in Poland