Prof. Agata Preis - Smith

Duty hours in the winter semester 2008/2009:

• Tuesday, 10.00 - 11.30

Areas of research:

• American and English poetry, literary theory, history of American modernist literature, gender studies, interrelations of literature and culture: rhetoric and ideology, issues of race, class, and gender in American literature

Academic titles and degrees:

• M.A. 1972, University of Warsaw
• PhD. 1981, University of Warsaw
• Post-doctoral degree (Habilitazionschrift) 1995, University of Warsaw

Research grants/fellowships and academic awards:

• ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) scholarship 1988-1989, English and American Literature Dept., The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• The John F. Kennedy Institute scholarship, August 1991, Freie Universitat, Berlin
• Senior Fulbright scholarship 1999/2000, English and American Literature Dept., University of California, Riverside, USA
• The Rockefeller Foundation scholarship, February-March 2003, Bellagio Research Center, Italy
• The University of Warsaw Rector's awards for academic accomplishments: 1988, 1996

Academic positions and activities:

• Head of the American Literature Section Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw 1994 -
• Secretary of the Polish Association for American Studies 1993 - 1996
• Vice-president of the Polish Association for American Studies 1996-1999. Organization of the 7th international conference of the Polish Association for American Studies

Selected publications:

Books:

• "Inventions of Farewell": American Elegiac Poetry from the Puritans to Modern Times, Warsaw: the University of Warsaw Publications, 1995

Editorship:

• Cultural Policy or the Politics of Culture? , Warsaw: the University of Warsaw Publications, 1999 (with Piotr Skurowski).
• Kultura, tekst, ideologia. Dyskursy współczesnej amerykanistyki , [Culture, Text, Ideology. Discourses of contemporary american Studies], Cracow
• The Poetics of America. Explorations in the Literature and Culture of the US , Warsaw: Institute of English Studies Publications, 2004 (with Marek Paryż).

Articles:

• "Realistic Setting Versus Lyrical Insight in Victorian and Modern Dramatic Monologue", Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny , nr 4, Warsaw 1987: 437-449.
• ""Amerykańska krytyka dekonstrukcjonizmu", Przegląd Humanistyczny , nr 12, Warsaw 1990: 109-116.
• "Elegy or Elegiac Structure: Some Problems of Modern Genre Theory", Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny , nr 3-4, 1991: 291-305
• "Modern Critics and the American Fireside Poets. A Case of Cultural Misreading Anglica 5, Wydawnictwa UW 1994: 29-39.
• "'Heaven the Better Country': Mourning in New England Puritan Elegy", American Studies , XIV, OSA, Warsaw 1995: 19-35.
• "White Muses, Jewish Mothers, Black Women: Multiculturalism and Modern American Elegy", w American Cultures. Assimilation and Multiculturalism , red. Elżbieta Oleksy, San Francisco, London, Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, 1996, str. 87-100.
• Genre and the Idea of Open Form: Implications of the Poetic Use of Camp in Frank O'Hara", w Living with America 1946-1996 , red. Cristina Giorcelli i Rob Kroes, Amsterdam: VU University, 1997, str. 235-242.
• "Gender, Revolution, and the Political Unconscious in Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills", JFK Institut Working Papers 118, Freie Universitat Berlin 1999, str. 1-20.
• ""The Discourse of Camp as Literary Performance: Gender Masquerade in Modern American Poetry," Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny , XLVIII, 2/2001: 107-124.
• "The Performativity of Self-Representation in Sylvia Plath's Poems", w: American Portraits and Self-Portraits red. Jerzy Durczak, Paweł Frelik, Lublin: Wydawnictwa UMCS, 2002, str. 295-305.
• "Female Transgression and the Tourist Gaze in Elizabeth Bishop's 'Pink Dog' ('Good-bye to Rio')", w: Traveling Subjects. American Journeys in Space and Time , red. Dominika Ferens et al., Kraków: Rabid, 2004, str. 169-175.
• "Gender Masquerade as a Social Statement in Confessional Poems of the 1950s and 1960s", w: The Poetics of America. Explorations in the Literature and Culture of the US , red. A. Preis-Smith, Marek Paryż, Warsaw: the Institute of English Studies UW, 2004, str. 125-131.