Prof. Marek Gołębiowski

Interests:

• Cultures of Anglo-Saxon Countries: United States, Canada, Great Britain - especially the values of cultures in comparative perspective
• Intercultural communications
• Popular literature - dime novel
• Popular theatre - melodrama

Classes in the summer semester 2004/2005:

• 5th year seminar - Monday 9.45 - 11.15, room 219
• Course 2501 "American Culture and Arts II" - Monday 11.30 - 13.00, room 225
• 4th year seminar - Tuesday 10.00 - 11.30, room 225
• Specialization classes 4 - Tuesday 12.00 - 13.30, room 225

Duty hours in the winter semester 2008/2009:

• Wednesday, 14.30 - 15.45

Publications:

Books:

• 450 quotations in: Księga cytatów, Muza, 1999.
• Leksykon kultury amerykańskiej. Warszawa, Wydawnictwo "Twój Styl", 1996.
• 20 American authors entries in: Słownik pisarzy świata, Warszawa, PWN, 1995.
• Amerykański musical na tle kultury popularnej U.S.A., Warszawa, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1990.
• Being Alive. American Musical: Text - Performance - Values, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 1988.
• Critical Anthology of English Poetry [co-author], Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 1980.
• American authors' entries in: Mały słownik pisarzy świata, Warszawa, Wiedza Powszechna, 1973.

Articles:

• "The Two Acculturations", Anglica, 9 (2000), Festschrift for Professor Irena Dobrzycka.
• "They Seemed Others, but Are We": Some Aspects of Current Contacts between American and Polish Cultures" w: Cultural Policy or the Politics of Culture?. ed. Agaty Preis-Smith i Piotra Skurowskiego, Warszawa, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 1999, ss. 225-234.
• "Another Look at Melodrama", PASE Papers in Literature. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Szczyrk, May 1998. Katowice, Uniwersytet Śląski, 1999, s. 93-102.
• "An Intercultural Approach to Canadian Studies", Visions of Canadian Studies: Teaching, Research, Methodology. (ed.) Nancy Burke, Józef Kwaterko, Warszawa, Wydawnictwa UW, 1998, ss. 79-85.
• "Values that Bind, Values that Divide", Dialogue and Universalism, 11-12/1995.
• "Common Man in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Musicals", Proceedings of the Conference of Polish Association of American Studies, Lublin, 1994.
• "Values of Cultures of Anglo-Saxon Countries (America - Canada - Australia): A Comparative Approach". Proceedings of the conference in Cracow, May 1992.
• "American Musical in Poland: a Study in Acculturation", Proceedings of the Conference of Polish Association of American Studies, Warsaw, November 1991.
• "Kulturoznawstwo w nauczaniu języków obcych", Proceedings of the conference in Zaborów 1987.
• "Sight and Sound: Screen Adaptations of Broadway Musicals", Acta Philologica.
• "Words into Tones: Adaptation of Prose for Musical Stage", Acta Philologica.
• "Of Thee I Sing, Baby: The Politics in the American Musical of the 1930's", American Studies.
• "Musical Adaptations from Para- Literary and Non-Literary Media" w: Crossing Borders: American Literature and Other Artistic Media. (ed.) Jadwiga Maszewska, Polish Scientific Publishers, Warsaw - Łódź, 1992.
• "The Problem of Fidelity in the Screen Adaptation of Broadway Musical: Sociological Aspects", Anglica, 1992.
• "Rola kulturoznawstwa w kształceniu nauczycieli języków obcych" w: Problemy przygotowania do zawodu przyszłych nauczycieli języków obcych w toku kształcenia na poziomie akademickim. Kraków, 1990.
• "American Melodrama: Past and Present", American Studies, 9, 1990.
• "Popular Culture: American Anthropological Approaches.", American Studies, 8, 1989.
• "The Musical: A Construction of the Concept", Anglica, 1, 1989.
• "Wartości kultury w sztuce popularnej" w: Co badania filologiczne mówią o wartości. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 1987.
• Values of American Culture in Musical Theater", American Studies, 7.
• "Teatr komercjalny - o socjologii amerykańskiego musicalu", Przegląd Humanistyczny, 2, 1987.
• "'If Music Be the Food of Love', or the Role of Song in Musical Theater", Acta Philologica, 16, 1987.
• "Musical and the American Dream", American Studies, 4, 1987.
• "Ritual, Myth, Identity: Anthropological Background to the Musical", American Studies, 5, 1985.
• "'Czytuj Szekspira': Studium procesu adaptacji w amerykańskim musicalu" w: Dramat. Miedzy literaturą a teatrem. (ed.) A. Zgorzelski, Gdańsk, 1983.
• "American Musical: An Approach to Popular Culture". American Studies, 2, 1981.
• "'Hamlet' Wyspiańskiego, a 'Hamlet' Gałczyńskiego". Acta Philologica, 4, 1974.
• "Some Aspects of Functioning of Myth and Ritual in Modern Drama", Paperback, 1967.

Reviews:

• Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind", Acta Philologica, 16,1987

Translations:

• Joanna Pasztaleniec-Jarzyńska, Halina Tchórzewska-Kabata [as co-translator], The National Library in Warsaw. Tradition and the Present Day, National Library, Warsaw, 2000.
• Political Sciences in Poland [into English], Warszawa, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1979.
• Over 30 philosophical texts for the Dialogue and Universalism.

Forthcoming publications:

• History of American Culture for Polish Scientific Publishers.
• "Canadian Values: Continuity or Change" w: Proceedings of the 2nd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies, Toruń, 2001.

Conference participation:

• Toruń 2001. 2nd Congress of Polish Associations for Canadian Studies.
• Warsaw, 2000, 50th International Congress of Americanists (organizing Committee).
• Zajączkowo, 2000, Conference devoted to teaching literature and culture.
• Jelitkowo, 2000, Conference of the Polish Association of English studies.
• Grainau, Niemcy, 1999, 199 Annual Conference of German Association for Canadian Studies.
• Wrocław, 1999, Conference of Polish Associacion of English Studies.
• Szczyrk, 1998, Conference of Polish Association of English Studies.
• Serock, 1998, Conference of Polish Association of American Studies.
• Warsaw, 1998, 1st Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies (organizing Committee).