Professor Bożena Shallcross

Associate Professor of Polish Literature

BODIES, OBJECTS, AND THINGS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY INQUIRY
POLI 29300/3900, ISHU29300/39300, Section 01
Spring Quarter 2003

REPRESENTING THE HOLOCAUST IN POLISH CULTURE
POLI 29100/39100, GSHU 27500/37500, JWSC 29100/39100
Winter Quarter 2003

• Ph.D. in Polish Literature, Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Institute for Literary Research, Warsaw, November 1983.
  • Ph.D. dissertation: Art and Aestheticism in the Poetry of Leopold Staff. Dissertation advisor: Professor Ryszard Przybylski, Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Institute for Literary Research.
• M.A. in Polish Literature and Language, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, June 1976.
• B.A.(equivalent), in Art History, Jagiellonian University, June 1978.

• Associate Professor, The University of Chicago, 2001-.
• Associate Professor, Indiana University, 2000-2001.
• Assistant Professor, Indiana University, 1994-2000.
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hunter College, CUNY, 1993-1994.
• Assistant Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Institute for Literary Research in Warsaw, 1983-1987.

• Director, Polish Studies Center, 1999-2001.
• Associate Director, Polish Studies Center, 1996-1999.

• Russian Identity/Polish Encounters, a volume of proceedings of the conference "Polonophilia and Polonophobia of the Russians," co-edited with David Ransel, submitted to the press, refereed.
• Framing the Polish Home: The Postwar Literary and Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002), 360 pp., collection of essays by various authors, refereed.
• Through the Poet’s Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2002), 215 pp., refereed.
• Irena Grudzinska Gross, The Scar of Revolution. Custine, Tocqueville, and the Romantic Imagination. (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1994 and 2000, 2nd edition), 225 pp., refereed.
• Dom romantycznego artysty. (The House of the Romantic Artist), (Cracow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1992), annotated anthology with introduction, 315 pp., refereed.
• Cien i forma. O wyobrazni plastycznej Leopolda Staffa. (Shadow and Form. On the Visual Imagination of Leopold Staff), (Szczecin: Glob, 1987), 164 pp., refereed.

• "Chopin at Home," for the volume of proceedings of the symposium "The Age of Chopin," Halina Goldberg, Ed., (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming in 2003), 14 pp.
• "Ewa Felinska 1798-1855," Obraz literatury polskiej. (The Image of Polish Literature), Maria Janion, Ed., (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo IBL [Institute for Literary Research Press]), series 3, vol.4, 15 pp., refereed, forthcoming in 2003.
• Reprint of "Fragments of a Broken Mirror": Bruno Schulz and the Retextualization of the Kabbalah," Examining "the Other" in Polish Culture: Studies in Language, Literature, and Cultural Mythology. Elwira M. Grossman, Ed. (Lampeter, Wales: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002), 12 pp.
• "The Archeology of Occupation: Stefan Chwin on Danzig/Gdansk," Framing the Polish Home: The Postwar Literary and Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Homeland, and Self (Athens: Ohio U P, 2002), 17 pp., refereed.
• "The Artistry of Oscar," Günter Grass i polski Pan Kichot. Maria Janion, Ed. (Gdansk: Slowo-Obraz-Terytoria: 1999), 12 pp., 2nd edition.
• "Polish Literature in English Translation," The Comparative Reader: A Hand-list of Basic Reading in Comparative Literature, Kirby, John T., Ed. (New Haven: Chancery Press, 1998), 3 pp., bibliographic article.
• "Pencil, Pen and Ink: Bruno Schulz's Art of Interference," The Heart of Nation. Proceedings of PIASA International Congress, James Pula, Ed. (New York: PIASA & Columbia University Press, 1994), 11 pp.
• "A World Written, A World Drawn," Jerzy Nowosielski, Andrzej Kostolowski and Wlodzimierz Nowaczyk, Eds. (Poznan: The National Museum, 1993), pp.88-99.
• "The Artistry of Oscar," Polskie pytania o Grassa, Janion Maria, Ed. (Warszawa: Hybrydy, 1988), pp.97-102.
• "On Tadeusz Micinski's Poems W mroku gwiazd," Materialy Miedzynarodowej Sesji Naukowej Studentow Slawistyki (Proceedings of the International Congress of the Slavic Students), (Cracow: Jagiellonian University, 1976), pp.114-120.

• "Negotiating the Gaze: Olga Boznanska as a Portraitist," submitted to the press, 30 pp.
• "’That Impossible Gesture": Wislawa Szymborska’s Poetry on Art," In Other Words. Studies to Honor Vadim Liapunov, Indiana Slavic Studies, Stephen Blackwell, Michael Finke, Nina Perlina, Yekaterina Vernikov, Eds., 2000: 11, pp. 381-392.
• "The Divining Moment: Adam Zagajewski’s Aesthetics of Epiphany," Slavic and East European Journal, 2000:44, pp.234-252, refereed.
• "Re/Constructing the Manor House," review article, The Polish Review, 1999:4, pp.439-444, refereed.
• "Zbigniewa Herberta podroz do zachwytu," trans. Elzbieta Kislak, Teksty Drugie, 2000:3, pp.61-78, refereed.
• "Zbigniew Herbert’s Passage to Rapture," the English version of the above, The Other Herbert, special issue of Indiana Slavic Studies, Bozena Shallcross, Ed., 1998:9, pp.43-59.
• "The Barbarian’s Garden: Zbigniew Herbert and the Folly of History," East European Politics and Societies, 2000:1, pp.47-63, refereed.
• "Intimations of Intimacy: Adam Mickiewicz's "'On the Grecian Room,'" Slavic and East European Journal, 1998:2, pp.216-230, refereed; reprint in The Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 101; reprint in Poetry Criticism, vol.38.
• "Issac Bashevis Singer: Two Polish Works," The Polish Review, 1998:2, pp.239-245, review article, refereed.
• "’Fragments of a Broken Mirror’: Bruno Schulz's Retextualization of the Kabbalah," East European Politics and Societies, 1997:2, pp.270-281, refereed.
• "’The Wondrous Fire’: Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz and the Romantic Improvisation," East European Politics and Societies, 1995:3, pp.523-533, refereed.
• "Jankiel’s Identity," the abbreviated Polish version of the above, Kontury (Tel Aviv), 1997:8, pp.146-152.
• "Thrown Into Abyss," Naglos, 1994:14, pp.164-173.
• "The Weight of Memory," for Katarzyna Gruda. Serigraphs, (Warsaw: Galeria Krytyków Pokaz, 1994), pp.6-9.
• "Homo Viator," for Zdzislaw Czermanski. Rysunki, (Warsaw: Galeria Kordegarda, 1991), pp.2-3.
• "How to Paint Defeat," in Znak, 1989:1, pp.37-43.
• "American Notes," a column in the quarterly Zeszyty Literackie, 1996:53, pp.2; 1993:47, pp.3; 1993:43, pp.3; 1992:38, pp.3; 1990:29, pp.2; 1989:28, pp.3; 1989:27, pp.3.
• "One Sentence by Leonardo da Vinci," Odra, 1987:2, pp.81-82.

• "Foreword," co-written with David Ransel, Russian Ientity: The Polish Mirror, submitted to the press.
• "Home Truths: Towards a Definition of the Polish Home," Framing the Polish Home, Bozena Shallcross, Ed. (Athens: Ohio U P, 2002), pp. 1-9.
• "Preface" for The Other Herbert, Bozena Shallcross, Ed., Indiana Slavic Studies, 1998:9, pp.3-7.
• "Introduction: Bruno Schulz and Modernism," a preface for Bruno Schulz Forum organized and edited for East European Politics and Societies, 1997:2, pp.254-256, refereed.

• "Bruno Schulz 1892-1942," in The Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th-Century Eastern European Writers, series 1, vol. 215, Bogdan Czaykowski, Ed. (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman Book: 1999), pp.328-334.
• "Eastern European Literature," The Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year 1996, pp.250-251.
• "Eastern European Literature," The Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year 1997, pp.259-260.
• "Biedermeier," in Slownik literatury XIX wieku. (Dictionary of the 19th Century Literature). Kowalczyk Alina, Ed. (Wroclaw: Ossolineum, 1991), pp.102-103, refereed.

• Things Polish: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry, book project dedicated to the representation of objects in contemporary Polish literature.
• A volume of essays by various authors dedicated to Polish women and their artistic production, co-edited with Beth Holmgren and Helena Goscilo.

• Trans-Atlantyk, By Witold Gombrowicz. For The Slavic and East European Journal, 1997:1, 185-186.
• W pogoni za Sienkiewiczem. By Michael Mikos. For The Sarmatian Review, 1995:2, pp.347-348.
• Annihilation. By Piotr Szewc. Trans. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough. For The Polish Review, 1994:4, pp.471-473.
• Poles and Jews. A Failed Brotherhood. By Magdalena Opalska and Israel Bartal. For The Polish Review, 1994: 2, pp.226-228.
• The Scar of Revolution. Custine, Tocqueville, and the Romantic Imagination. By Irena Grudzinska Gross. For the Slavic Review, 1994:4, pp.1164-1165.
• The Drawings of Bruno Schulz. Ficowski, Jerzy, Ed. For the Slavic Review, 1992:1, 180-182.
• Salome and Judas in the Cave of Sex. The Grotesque: Origins, Iconography, Techniques. By Ewa Kuryluk. For Zeszyty Literackie, Fall 1988, pp.128-131.
• A Life of Solitude. Stanisława Przybyszewska. By Jadwiga Kosicka and Daniel Gerould. For The Polish Review, 1988:2, pp.239-242.

• "Morton Street 44," in More Than One Needs. Conversations with Joseph Brodsky. Illg, Jerzy, Ed. (Katowice: Ksiaznica, 1993), pp.166-179.
• "The White Men’s Masterpieces: A Few Remarks On Literary Canons. A Conversation with Fred Nichols," Teksty Drugie, 1992:2, pp.174-178.

• Jacques Derrida, "Exergum," Teksty Drugie, 1993:1, pp.144-148.
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Greenhorn at the Gate Sea," Odra, 1987:10, pp.24-25.
• Richard Burgin, Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer (fragments), Odra, 1986:6, pp.73-80; 1986:7/8, pp. 72-80; 1986:9, pp.25-34.
• D.W. Fokkema, "The Problem of Generalization and Procedure of Literary Evaluation," Pamietnik Literacki, 1985:4, pp.241-263, refereed.

2B, Visible Language, Periphery, Projekt, Nurt, Nowy Dziennik, Miedzy Innymi, The Sarmatian Review, Przeglad Polski, Fiberarts, NaGlos, Gazeta Wyborcza, Postscriptum.

• The Other Herbert, Indiana Slavic Studies, 1998:9.
• "The Bruno Schulz Forum," East European Politics and Societies, 1997:2.

• The Franke Institute Faculty Residential Fellowship for Fall and Winter Quarters 2003/4.
• The Polish Government’s Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for Promoting Polish Culture in the World, 2002.
• REEI international conference travel grant, July 2000, $850.
• IU International Programs travel grant, July 2000, $1,000.00.
• RUGS Grant-in-Aid, May 2000, $500.
• ACLS Fellowship for the book project Travel, Art, and Epiphany, 1998-1999, $20,000.00.
• REEI Mellon Summer Faculty Development Fellowship, for 1998, $3,000.00.
• ACLS grant for the conference Home/Less: The Polish Experience, 1997, $20,000.00.
• RUGS Grant-in-Aid, 1997, $1,500.00.
• Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, College of Arts and Sciences, 1997, $1,000.00.
• REEI Mellon Summer Faculty Development Fellowship, for 1996, $3,000.00.
• Summer Faculty Development Fellowship, Indiana University, for 1995, $5,000.00.

• "Objects Matter: The Manipulations of Objects in Contemporary Polish Literature," The Visiting Committee, Humanities Division, University of Chicago, December 2001.
• "The Silent Speech of Things: Visual, Philosophical and Textual Implications," The Franke Institute for Humanities, The University of Chicago, January 2002.
• "The Archeology of Occupation: Stefan Chwin's Writings on Danzig/Gdansk," The University of Chicago, February 2001.
• "Adam Zagajewski’s Epiphany in Blue," Barnard College, February 1999.
• "Transitions in East Europe: Two Talks and a Dialogue," (with Adam Zagajewski), Rutgers University, May 1998.
• "Wislawa Szymborska–-the 1997 Nobel Prize Laureate," an introductory address, National Convention of Teachers of English, Detroit, November 1997.
• "Fragments of a Broken Mirror: Bruno Schulz's Retextualization of the Kabbalah," University of Toronto, January 1996.
• "Painters on the Edge: Jewish School in Polish Painting," The Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation, Toronto, January 1996.
• "Polish Romanticism and the Art of Literary Improvisation," Canisius College, Buffalo, April 1995.
• "Delineations: An Inquiry into the Nature of Alexander Pushkin's and Cyprian K. Norwid's Drawings," University of Kansas, April 1995.
• "Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz and the Romantic Improvisation," Indiana University, February 1994.
• "The School of Order and the Order of Things: Zbigniew Herbert's Hermeneutics of Art," University of California at Los Angeles, 1992.
• "Poetry and Fragmentation," University of Pennsylvania, February 1988.
• "The Gesture of Negation," Columbia University, October 1987.
• "Russian Icons - Art and Theology," Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, December 1987.

• "Cataloguing as a Critique of Collecting: Wislawa Szymborska and Things," MLA annual convention, New York City, December 2002.
• "Negotiating the Gaze: Olga Boznanska as a Portraitist," Pittsburgh, AAASS annual conference, November 2002.
• "The Quotidian as Installation: The Case of Miron Bialoszewski, " New Orleans, MLA annual convention, December 2001.
• "The Hallow Mirror: Strategies of Disappearance in Joseph Brodsky's Watermark," Denver, AAASS annual convention, November 2000.
• "Warsaw: The Open City," VI ICCEES World Congress, Tampere, Finland, July 2000.
• "Between History and Domesticity: Appropriated Houses," AAASS annual convention, St. Louis, November 1999.
• "Chopin at Home," international conference The Age of Chopin: A Sesquicentennial Symposium, IU, Bloomington, September 1999.
• "Chobielin: Re/Constructing the Manor," Home/Less: The Polish Experience, IU international conference, Bloomington, December 1998.
• "Confrontations: On Art and Life in Wislawa Szymborska's Verse," AAASS annual convention, Seattle, November 1997.
• "Writing in Mittens:' The Artistry of Wislawa Szymborska," Polish Studies Center, Bloomington, IU, November 1996.
• "Intimations of Intimacy: Adam Mickiewicz's Poetry on the Home," AAASS annual meeting, Boston, November 1996.
• "Fragments of a Broken Mirror: Bruno Schulz's Retextualization of the Kabbalah," for a panel on Polish writers, AAASS annual meeting, Philadelphia, November 1994.
• "A Flower in the Hair: Symbolism and the Erotic Imagery," for a panel "Sexuality and Eroticism in Polish Culture," PIASA Annual Conference, Hunter College, June 1991.
• "Bruno Schulz's Words and Lines: Visualizing Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass," for a panel on Comparative Literature, AATSEEL annual meeting, Chicago, December 1990.
• "Scribbled Walls: On Romantic Graffiti," for Panel on Polish Literature, PIASA Annual Conference, Hunter College, May 1989.
• "The January Uprising and the Act of Creation," Conference on Nineteenth-Century Polish Painting in Context, National Academy of Design, New York, March 1988.
• "How to Paint Defeat," Symposium dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the January Uprising, January 1984.

• Secretary of the MLA Division of Slavic and Eastern European Literatures, 2003.
• Organizer and chair of panel, "Object Lessons: Bridging Texts, Cultural Settings, and Material Culture," for MLA annual convention, New York, December 2002.
• Organizer and chair of panel, "Scars, Stigmata, and Skinscripts: The Otherness of the Body," MLA annual convention, New Orleans, December 2001.
• Organizer and chair of roundtable discussion, "From Words to Images: Reinventing National Identity and Memory in Andrzej Wajda’s "Pan Tadeusz," AAASS annual conference, Arlington, November 2001.
• Organizer and chair of panel, "The Mother-Daughter Syndrome," MLA annual convention, Washington D.C., December 2000.
• Conference co-organizer, "Polonophilia and Polonophobia of the Russians," IU Bloomington, September 2000.
• Conference co-organizer, "The Age of Chopin: A Sesquicentennial Symposium," IU, Bloomington, September 1999.
• Conference organizer, "Home/Less: The Polish Experience," IU, Bloomington, December 1998.
• Chair of panel, "Polish Poetry and the Visual Arts," AAASS annual meeting, Seattle, November 1997.
• Chair of panel, "Zbigniew Herbert and the Visual Arts," AAASS annual meeting, Boston, November 1996.
• Chair of panel, "New Approaches to Bruno Schulz," AAASS annual meeting, Philadelphia, October 1994.
• Co-sponsor (with Prof. David Roskies), Seminar on Yiddish, Russian, and Polish Literatures at the Crossroads, New York City, 1993-1994.
• Chair of panel, Central European Literatures, AATSEEL annual meeting, San Francisco, December 1992.
• Chair of panel, "Doubly Gifted: Polish Writers as Visual Artists," PIASA International Conference, New York, June 1992.
• Secretary of panel, Central European Literature, AATSEEL annual meeting, Chicago, December 1991.

• Objectifying Objects, Spring Quarter 2003.
• Representing the Holocaust in Polish Culture, Winter Quarter 2003.
• Words Versus Image: Interdisciplinarity and Polish Literature, Winter Quarter 2003.
• The Revolution and the Spirit: Polish and Russian Cinema, 1956-present, co-taught with Robert Bird, Spring Quarter 2002.
• Literature and Epiphany: Readings in World Literature, Spring Quarter 2002.
• The Art and Craft of Polish Essay, Winter Quarter 2002.
• Postwar Polish Poetry, Winter Quarter 2002.
• Reading the Arch-Text: Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz, Fall Quarter 2001.
• Seminar, The Art and Craft of Adaptation: Polish Literature and Cinema, Fall 2000.
• Seminar, Polish Literature and the Interart Discourse, IU, Fall 1995, Fall 1996.
• Survey of Polish Literature and Culture, IU, course for graduates and undergraduates, two semesters sequence, since Fall 1994.
• Introduction to Polish Culture, course for undergraduates, Spring 1996 and 2001.
• Elementary Polish, course for graduates and undergraduates, 1994, 1995, 1996.
• Intermediate Polish, course for graduates and undergraduates, IU, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001.
• Intermediate Advanced Polish, course for graduates and undergraduates, IU, 1997, 1998, 1999.

• Member, Committee for the Neuberger Family Presidential Fellowship, 2003.
• Chair, Ad Hoc Search Committee for the Russian Literature position.
• Academic advisor for the Interdisciplinary Program, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, since 2002.
• Outside reader of the ACLS 2000-2002 fellowship competition.
• Selected for the ACLS workshop and roundtable discussion on the future of the humanities, April 2001.
• Selected as the Senior Scholar for the Junior Scholar Training Seminar, East European Program, Wilson Center, August 1998 and 1999.
• Member, The Wacław Lednicki Book Award Committee, PIASA, New York, 1998.
• Member, Editorial Board, Slavica Publishing House, 1997-2001.
• Reviewer: EEPS, SEEJ, The Polish Review, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, The Kosciuszko Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Pittsburgh UP, Slavica Publishers, Ohio UP, ACLS.

• American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
• Modern Language Association
• The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
• The International Women Associates