PhD, Assistant professor
Department of Theoretical Poetics and Semiotics of Culture
Consultation hours: Tuesday 11AM–1PM
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ORCID: 0000-0002-3505-160
Research Interests
● 20th-century avant-garde and neo-avant-garde literature
● Theory of the avant-garde and contemporary forms of avant-gardism
● Archival studies
● Cultural history of Central-Eastern Europe
● Theory of life writing and experimental autobiography
Selected Publications:
Monographs
Sroka Honorata. 2025. Awangardowe archiwum. Eksperymentalne zapisy życia Franciszki i Stefana Themersonów [The Avant-Garde Archive. The Experimental Life Writing of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson]. Cracow: Jagiellonian University Publishing House. DOI: 10.4467/K7721.24/25.25.21544
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
● Sroka Honorata. 2027. The Avant-Garde Archive as Total Work of Art. In: “Revisiting the Avant-Garde Total Work of Art”. Ed. Sascha Bru, Kate Kangaslahti, Abigael van Alst. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
● Sroka Honorata. 2026. The Political Nature of Life Writing Experiments. In: “A Hundred Years of Avant-Gardes. The Literary Experiment in Poland and Beyond 1917-2017”. Ed. Katarzyna Bazarnik, Agnieszka Karpowicz, Honorata Sroka, Paulina Chorzewska-Rubik, Jakub Kornhauser. Leiden: Brill.
● Bazarnik Katarzyna, Chorzewska-Rubik Paulina, Karpowicz Agnieszka, Sroka Honorata. 2026. Introduction: the Literary Experiment in Poland 1917–2017. In: “A Hundred Years of Avant-Gardes. The Literary Experiment in Poland and Beyond 1917-2017”. Ed. Katarzyna Bazarnik, Agnieszka Karpowicz, Honorata Sroka, Paulina Chorzewska-Rubik, Jakub Kornhauser. Leiden: Brill.
● Sroka Honorata. 2026. Gaberbocchus Press. In: “Online Encyclopedia of Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes”. Access: https://www.oeln.net/gaberbocchus-press
● Sroka Honorata. 2024. Tematyka migracyjna w pamiętnikach konkursowych młodzieży żydowskiej 1932-1939 [Migrations in the Memoirwriting Competitions by Jewish Youth 1932-1939]. “Teksty Drugie”, no 2.
● Sroka Honorata. 2023. The Great Boredom of Contemplation: Franciszka Themerson’s Experimental Records of Illness, “Forum of Poetics”, no 33-34.
● Sroka Honorata. 2022. The Experimental Avant-Garde Art of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson a Way of Dealing with Crisis. In: “Crisis. The Avant-Garde and Modernism in Critical Modes”, Ed. Sascha Bru, Kate Kangaslahti, Li Lin, Iveta Slavkova and David Ayers. Volume 7th in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. Berlin – New York: de Gruyter.
● Sroka Honorata. 2022. Empatia kuratorów i biografów [The Empathy of Curators and Biographers]. “Teksty Drugie”, no 6.
● Sroka Honorata. 2022. Polityczności filmów Themersonów [The Political Nature of the Themersons’ Films]. “Teksty Drugie”, no 6.
● Sroka Honorata. 2022. Franciszka Themerson, Stefan Themerson Korespondencja filmowa (1932-1938) [The Edition of Film Correspondence by Franciszka Themerson and Stefan Themerson 1932-1938]. “Teksty Drugie”, no 6.
● Sroka Honorata. 2022. Myśląc o sprawach świata jak księżniczka Zuppa. Dzienniki wojenne Stefana Themersona [Thinking About World Affairs Like Princess Zuppa. The Wartime Diaries by Stefan Themerson]. In: “Zapisywanie wojny” [Writing the War. Diaries from 1939–1945]. Ed. Maciej Libich, Piotr Sadzik. Warsaw: University of Warsaw Publishing House.
● Sroka Honorata. 2022. Kuratorstwo archiwum? Przypadek Themersonów [The Curatorship of an Archive? The Case of the Themersons], “Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne”, no 1.
● Sroka Honorata. 2022. Co warto widzieć na pierwszy rzut oka? Zarys praktyki dydaktycznej Franciszki Themerson w latach 1963-1968 [What is Worth Seeing at the First Glance? An Outline of Franciszka Themerson’s Teaching Practice, 1963-1968], “Autobiografia. Literatura. Kultura. Media”, no 1.
● Sroka Honorata. 2021. Na przecięciu, w zestawieniu, z dystansu. Antypolityczność Stefana Themersona [At the Intersection, in the Comparison, from the Distance. The Anti-politics of Stefan Themerson]. In: “Polityki/Awangardy” [Avant-garde Politics]. Ed. Agnieszka Karpowicz, Jakub Kornhauser, Marta Rakoczy, Aleksander Wójtowicz. Cracow: Jagiellonian University Publishing House.
● Sroka Honorata. 2020. Pragnienie wpływu. O listach Stefana Themersona i Bertranda Russella [Desire for the Influence. Letters by Stefan Themerson and Bertrand Russell]. “Konteksty. Polska Sztuka Ludowa”, no 1-2.
● Sroka Honorata. 2020. „Jak robić obrazy bielsze od białych?” Listy Franciszki Themerson i Ireny Grosz [“How to Make Pictures Whiter Than White?” Letters Between Franciszka Themerson and Irena Grosz]. “Czas Kultury”, no 3.
● Sroka Honorata. 2019. Autobiographical Interpoetics. Wartime Works by Franciszka and Stefan Themerson. “Forum of Poetics”, no 18.
Edited Volumes and Edited Journals (guest editor)
● “A Hundred Years of Avant-Gardes. The Literary Experiment in Poland and Beyond 1917-2017”. 2026. Ed. Katarzyna Bazarnik, Agnieszka Karpowicz, Honorata Sroka, Paulina Chorzewska-Rubik, Jakub Kornhauser. Leiden: Brill.
● “The Avant-Garde Poetics of Life Writing”. 2023. Ed. Honorata Sroka, Lucyna Marzec. “Forum of Poetics”, no 33-34. https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fp/issue/view/2807
● “Europa Themersonów” [The Europe of the Themersons]. 2022. Ed. Beata Śniecikowska, Honorata Sroka. “Teksty Drugie”, no 6. https://tekstydrugie.pl/pl/biblio/europa-themersonow/
Research Projects, Fellowships, Research Stays
● 2025-2028: The PI of the project “Avant-garde Archives in Central-Eastern Europe during the 1960s and 1970s”. The project is funded by the National Science Centre Poland (reference number: 2025/56/C/HS2/00001).
● 2025-2026: The full-time post-doctoral researcher at the KU Leuven, MDRN research lab, Belgium. The project was conducted under the supervision of prof. Sascha Bru and funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (reference number: BPN/BEK/2024/1/00003).
● 2024-2025: The full-time post-doctoral researcher at the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences, the employment co-funded by the CEFRES and the Charles University in Prague, Czechia.
● 2024-2026: The PI of the project “The Archive of Avant-Garde. Interpretations of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson Correspondences”. The project was funded by the National Science Centre Poland (reference number: 2023/49/N/HS2/00284).
● 2024: The visiting fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada. The three-month research stay at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CERES), conducted under the supervision of dr. Magdalena Cabaj and prof. Leonid Livak; funded by the Joanna DeMone Visiting Graduate Student Award and the University of Toronto.
● 2023: The visiting fellow at the KU Leuven, Belgium. The four-month research stay under the supervision of prof. Sascha Bru. Funded by the University of Warsaw, Poland (reference number: PSP 501-D130-20-0004410).
● 2021-2024: The research scholarship in the project “Life writing competitions. Memoirwriting practices in Poland 1918-1939 (analysis – reception – meaning)”. The project under the supervision of prof. Paweł Rodak; funded by the National Science Centre Poland (reference number: 2020/37/B/HS2/02154).
● 2021: The participation in the project “Literary Experiment in Central Europe in 20th and 21st Century: Media, Practices, Discourses”. The project under the supervision of prof. Katarzyna Bazarnik; funded by the Jagiellonian University (reference number: PSP U1U/P01/NO/02.03).
Selected Conferences
● Co-organisation of the conference “Building The Avant-Garde Abroad: East-Central European Artists In Paris”. The conference was organised by the Polish Library in Paris, the University of Warsaw, the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Sorbonne University. My paper: “The Neo-Avant-Garde Archives in Central Europe”. Paris 18-19.09.2026.
● Co-organisation of the conference “Life-Writing in Times of Crisis”. The conference was organised by the International AutoBiography Association (IABA) and the University of Warsaw. My paper: “Franciszka Themerson’s Wartime Drawings”. Warsaw 5-8.07.2023.
● “Avant-Garde and Migration” organised by the Stockholm University and the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM). My paper: “Meta-Archival Data Migration in Central Europe”. Stockholm 2-4.09.2026.
● „Histoire(s) d’archives: Imagining Thinking and Writing Practices Through Intellectual Manuscripts” organised by IRN AITIA, CNRS, CEFRES, Museum of Literature in Prague and Archiv Jan Patočky in Prague. My paper: „What Does it Mean ‘Avant-garde Archive’?”. Prague 5-6.12.2024.
● “Avant-Garde and War” organised by the Jagiellonian University and the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM). My paper: “The Themersons, Bertrand Russell and Their Anti-War Manifesto”. Cracow 17-19.09.2024.
● “Fragmented Lives” organised by the International AutoBiography Association (IABA), the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature and the University of Iceland. My paper: “Fragmentary Identities and Geographical Imaginary in Memoir-Writing Practices in Poland 1932-1939”. Reykjavik 12-15.06.2024.
● “Globalising the Avant-Garde” organised by the NOVA University of Lisbon and the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM). My paper: “The Internationalism of the Themersons”. Lisbon September 1-3.09.2022.
See also
● 2026. Co-organisation of the exhibition “Belgian Crossings. The Avant-Garde Adventures of Belgian Books in Central and Eastern Europe”, produced by the MODERNITAS research centre at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. See online version of the exhibition: https://explore.ulb.be/s/belgiancrossings/page/welcome
● Since 2022. Membership of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM), as well as the Avant-Garde Research Center (Jagiellonian University).