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Agnieszka Mrozik

Agnieszka Mrozik

PhD, Associate Professor
“Literature and Contexts" Research Team; Centre for Cultural and Literary Studies of Communism; “Literature and Gender" Research Team

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Main Research Interests:

  • gender, generations, communism in Central and Eastern Europe
  • critical analysis of public discourse (including media and popular culture)
  • phenomenon of backlash
  • women's history and feminist movement in Central and Eastern Europe
  • women's life writing and literature in Central and Eastern Europe


Publications:

Books:

  • Akuszerki transformacji. Kobiety, literatura i władza w Polsce po 1989 roku [Midwives of the Transformation. Women, Literature and Power in Post-1989 Poland], Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warszawa 2012, pp. 438.

Edited Books:

  • Komunizm - idee i praktyki w Polsce 1944-1989 [Communism - Ideas and Practices in Poland 1944-1989], eds. Katarzyna Chmielewska, Agnieszka Mrozik and Grzegorz Wołowiec, Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warszawa 2018, pp. 516.
  • Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism, eds. Agnieszka Mrozik and Stanislav Holubec, Routledge, New York 2018, pp. 286.
  •  … czterdzieści i cztery. Figury literackie. Nowy kanon […Forty and Four. Literary Figures. New Canon], eds. Monika Rudaś-Grodzka, Barbara Smoleń, Katarzyna Nadana-Sokołowska, Agnieszka Mrozik, Katarzyna Czeczot, Anna Nasiłowska, Ewa Serafin-Prusator, Agnieszka Wróbel, Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warszawa 2016, pp. 700.
  • Encyklopedia gender [Encyclopedia of Gender], eds. Monika Rudaś-Grodzka, Katarzyna Nadana-Sokołowska, Agnieszka Mrozik, Anna Nasiłowska, Barbara Smoleń, Kazimiera Szczuka, Katarzyna Czeczot, Ewa Serafin, Agnieszka Wróbel, Czarna Owca, Warszawa 2014, pp. 640.
  • PRL – życie po życiu [People's Poland – the Afterlife], eds. Katarzyna Chmielewska, Agnieszka Mrozik and Grzegorz Wołowiec, Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warszawa 2013, pp. 223.


Edited Journal Contribution (guest editor):

  • "Teksty Drugie" 2016, No. 1: “Powrót pokolenia?" [The Return of the Generation?] (co-edited with Anna Artwińska).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

  • Introduction: Historical Memory of European Communisms Before and After 1989 (co-authored with Stanislav Holubec), in: Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism, eds. Agnieszka Mrozik and Stanislav Holubec, Routledge, New York 2018, pp. 1-18.
  • "We Must Reconstruct Our Own Past": 1960s Polish Communist Women’s Memoirs—Constructing the (Gender) History of the Polish Left, in: Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism, eds. Agnieszka Mrozik and Stanislav Holubec, Routledge, New York 2018, pp. 192-220.
  • Communism as a Generational Herstory: Reading Post-Stalinist Memoirs of Polish Communist Women, "History of Communism in Europe" 2017, Vol. 8: The Other Half of Communism: Women's Outlook, pp. 261-284.
  • Beasts, Demons, and Cold Bitches: Memories of Communist Women in Contemporary Poland, "Baltic Worlds" 2017, No. 4, pp. 54-57.
  • Crossing Boundaries: The Case of Wanda Wasilewska and Polish Communism, "Aspasia. The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History" 2017, No. 11, pp. 19-53.
  • Communist Women and the Spirit of Transgression: The Case of Wanda Wasilewska, "Second Texts" 2016, No. 1, pp. 116-143.
  • "Dziadek (nie) był komunistą". Między/ transgeneracyjna pamięć o komunizmie w polskich (auto)biografiach rodzinnych po 1989 roku [“Grandpa Was (Not) a Communist". Inter/ Transgenerational Memory about Communism in Post-1989 Polish Family (Auto)biographies], "Teksty Drugie" 2016, No. 1, pp. 46-67.
  • Pożytki z "pokolenia". Dyskusja o "pokoleniu" jako kategorii analitycznej [The Usefulness of “Generations". Discussing the “Generation" as an Analytical Category], "Teksty Drugie" 2016, No. 1, pp. 347-366 (co-authored with Anna Artwińska, Małgorzata Fidelis and Anna Zawadzka).
  • Nieobecne, ale użyteczne. O pożytkach z komunistek w polskim dyskursie publicznym po 1989 roku [Absent but Useful. Making Use of the Communist Women in Post-1989 Polish Public Discourse], in: Sporne postacie polskiej krytyki feministycznej po 1989 roku [Disputed Figures of Polish Feminist Criticism after 1989], ed. Monika Świerkosz, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, Gdańsk 2016, pp. 171-208.
  • Zwrot genderowy w Polsce: niedokończony projekt [Gender Turn in Poland: The Unfinished Project], in: Projekt na daleką metę. Prace ofiarowane Ryszardowi Nyczowi [A Long-term Project. Works Dedicated to Ryszard Nycz], eds. Zdzisław Łapiński and Anna Nasiłowska, Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warszawa 2016, pp. 145-152.
  • "Traktorzystka to nie kobieta". Polska polityka płci w okresie Odwilży [“Female Tractor Drivers Are Not Women". The Politics of Gender during the Polish Thaw], in: Przełom Października ‘56 [The Breakthrough of October ‘56], ed. Paweł Dybicz, Fundacja Oratio Recta, Warszawa 2016, pp. 133-162.
  • Hela traktorzystka [Hela, the Tractor Driver]; Siłaczka [A Strong Woman], in: … czterdzieści i cztery. Figury literackie. Nowy kanon […Forty and Four. Literary Figures. New Canon], eds. Monika Rudaś-Grodzka, Katarzyna Nadana-Sokołowska, Agnieszka Mrozik et al., Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warszawa 2016, pp. 210-227; 546-566.
  • Prządki (po)rewolucyjnej rzeczywistości. Konstruowanie historii lewicy we wspomnieniach polskich komunistek w latach 60. XX wieku [Spinners of the (Post)revolutionary Reality. Constructing History of the Left in the Memoirs of Polish Communist Women in the 1960s], in: Rok 1966. PRL na zakręcie [1966. The Polish People’s Republic at a Turning Point], eds. Katarzyna Chmielewska, Grzegorz Wołowiec and Tomasz Żukowski, Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warszawa 2014, pp. 255-296.
  • Poza nawiasem historii (kobiet), czyli po co nam dziś komunistki [On the Margins of (Women’s) History, or Why We Need Communist Women Today], "Wakat On-line" 2014, No. 3.
  • Women’s Archives as Literary Larders: Identity Politics in Women’s (Auto)biographies, in: Polish Literature in Transformation, eds. Ursula Phillips, Knut Andreas Grimstad and Kris Van Heuckelom, LIT Verlag, Berlin 2013, pp. 139-154.
  • "Komuniści (nie) mają ojczyzny..." Wanda Wasilewska jako polska (anty)bohaterka narodowa [“Communists Have No Homeland…" A Portrait of Wanda Wasilewska], "Studia Litteraria et Historica" 2013, No. 2, pp. 528-554.
  • ЖЕНСКИЕ АРХИВЫ – КЛАДОВЫЕ ПАМЯТИ. ПОЛИТИКА ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ В (АВТО)БИОГРАФИЯХ ЖЕНЩИН ПОСЛЕ 1989 ГОДА [Women’s Archives as Literary Larders. Identity Politics in Women’s (Auto)biographies after 1989], in: Гендер и литература в странах Центральной и Юго-Восточной Европы [Gender and Literature in Central and South-Eastern Europe], eds. И. Е. Адельгейм, Н. Н. Старикова and А. В. Усачева, Институт славяноведения РАН, МОСКВА 2013, pp. 39-55.
  • "Wanda, co wolała Rusa". Wytwarzanie (biografii) komunistki – wytwarzanie (tożsamości) narodu [“Wanda Who Preferred the Russian". The Manufacturing of a Communist (Biography) – the Manufacturing of Nation(al Identity)], in: PRL – życie po życiu [People's Poland – the Afterlife], eds. Katarzyna Chmielewska, Agnieszka Mrozik and Grzegorz Wołowiec, Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warszawa 2013, pp. 47-89.
  • Bridget Jones au bord de la Vistule. (Re)constructions de la féminité dans la littérature populaire polonaise après 1989 [Bridget Jones Up from the Vistula. (Re)constructions of Femininity in Polish Women’s Popular Fiction after 1989], in: Un siècle après Marie Curie-Sklodowska ou l'émancipation des femmes en Pologne et en France [A Century after Maria Curie-Skłodowska. Emancipation of Women in Poland and France], eds. Monika Rudaś-Grodzka, Katarzyna Nadana-Sokołowska and Ewa Serafin, Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warszawa 2012, pp. 171-193.
  • “The Time of Visionary Artists Has Come to an End"? Manuela Gretkowska’s Recent Literary and Political Activity, in: Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory, eds. Urszula Chowaniec and Ursula Phillips, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2012, pp. 109-123.
  • Akuszerki transformacji. Stosunek do PRL-u jako element polityki tożsamości polskiego feminizmu po 1989 roku [Midwives of the Transformation. The Polish People’s Republic as Part of Feminist Identity Politics in Post-1989 Poland], in: Opowiedzieć PRL [To Tell of the People's Poland], eds. Katarzyna Chmielewska and Grzegorz Wołowiec, Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warszawa 2011, pp. 145-158.
  • Czas superwomen. Młode kobiety w nauce [Time of Superwomen. Young Female Scientists], "Tekstualia" 2010, No. 4, pp. 13-24.
  • Gender Studies in Poland: Prospects, Limitations, Challenges, “Dialogue and Universalism" 2010, No. 5-6, pp. 19-29.
  • Motherhood as a Source of Suffering: On the Contemporary Polish Discourse of Maternity, in: Mapping Experience in Polish and Russian Women's Writing, eds. Urszula Chowaniec, Marja Rytkonen, Ursula Phillips and Kirsi Kurkijärvi, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2010, pp. 214-239.
  • "БОМБАРДИРОВАЧКИ"? СБОГУВАНЕ С МАЙКА ПОЛЯКИНЯ В ЖЕНСКАТА ПРОЗА СЛЕД 1989  ГОДИНА  [Female Bombers? Farewell to the Polish Mother in Post-1989 Women’s Prose], in: Даопишешжена... Българо-полски дискусии в годините на прехода  [To Write a Woman… Bulgarian-Polish Conversations in the Transition Period], Съставители и редакция: Магда Карабелова и Анна Нашиловска, Издателство "Боян Пенев", София 2009, pp. 95-123.
  • “Still Seeking for Something": The Unspeakable (Loss) in “Passing" by Nella Larsen, “Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies" 2008, v. 6.
  • Być liderem na placu zabaw. "Kryzys męskości" jako backlash w literaturze polskiej po 1989 roku [To Be a Leader on the Playground. “Masculinity Crisis" as a Figure of Backlash in Post-1989 Polish Literature], in: Lektury płci. Polskie (kon)teksty [Gender Readings. Polish (Con)texts], ed. Mieczysław Dąbrowski, Elipsa, Warszawa 2008, pp. 100-117.


Book Reviews:

  • Sexual Revolution Did Not Start in the West, H-Soz-Kult, 18.01.2019 [Kateřina Lišková, Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style: Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945–1989, Cambridge University Press 2018].
  • Antysemityzm nasz powszedni [Our Common Antisemitism], "Bez Dogmatu" 2018, No. 115, pp. 16-18 [Anna K. Kłys, Tajemnica pana Cukra. Polsko-żydowska wojna przed wojną, Wielka Litera 2015].
  • Melancholia lewicy [Melancholy of the Left], "Bez Dogmatu" 2017, No. 113, pp. 28-29 [Enzo Traverso, Left-wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory, Columbia University Press 2016].
  • Czy komunistka może być ofiarą? [Can the Female Communist Be a Victim?], "Bez Dogmatu" 2017, No. 112, pp. 29-31 [Stanisława Sowińska, Gorzkie lata. Z wyżyn władzy do stalinowskiego więzienia, Ośrodek KARTA 2017].
  • O pokoleniach z perspektywy niemieckiej [Generations from a German Perspective], "Teksty Drugie" 2016, No. 1, pp. 253-263 (co-authored with Anna Artwińska) [Hubert Orłowski (ed.), Pokolenia albo porządkowanie historii, Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje 2015].
  • Historia na ławie oskarżonych [History in the Dock], "Bez Dogmatu" 2016, No. 107, pp. 7-10 [Piotr Lipiński, Bicia nie trzeba było ich uczyć. Proces Humera i oficerów śledczych Urzędu Bezpieczeństwa, Wydawnictwo Czarne 2016].
  • Kobiety w mediach: nie wystarczy dodać i zamieszać [Women in the Media: It Is Not Enough to Add and Mix], "Zadra" 2015, No. 1-2, pp. 88-90 [Piotr Szumlewicz, Wielkie pranie mózgów. Rzecz o polskich mediach, Czarna Owca 2015].
  • Obywatelki-żołnierki [Women Citizens – Women Soldiers], "Bez Dogmatu" 2014, No. 101-102, pp. 26-30 [Anna Krylova, Soviet Women in Combat. A History of Violence on the Eastern Front, Cambridge University Press 2011].
  • Legendą być [To Be a Legend], "Bez Dogmatu" 2014, No. 100, pp. 4-10 [Karol Modzelewski, Zajeździmy kobyłę historii. Wyznania poobijanego jeźdźca, Iskry 2013].
  • Wywołać z milczenia. Historia kobiet w PRL-u – kobiety w historii PRL-u [Calling Out of Silence. The History of Women in the Polish People’s Republic – Women in the History of the Polish People's Republic], "Teksty Drugie" 2011, No. 4, pp. 112-119 [Małgorzata Fidelis, Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland, Cambridge University Press 2010].
  • Solistki – jednym głosem [Women Soloists – In One Voice], "Res Publica Nowa", winter 2009/2010, No. 8, pp. 182-186 [Maria Cyranowicz, Joanna Mueller, Justyna Radczyńska (eds), Solistki. Antologia poezji kobiet (1989–2009), Staromiejski Dom Kultury 2009].

Articles in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:

  • Saga, Siostrzeństwo, Utopia, Własny głos [Saga, Sisterhood, Utopia, Own Voice], in: Encyklopedia gender [Encyclopedia of Gender], eds. Monika Rudaś-Grodzka, Katarzyna Nadana-Sokołowska, Agnieszka Mrozik et al., Czarna Owca, Warszawa 2014, pp. 498-501, 511-514, 555-559, 570-573.
  • Krystyna Kofta (co-author Agnieszka Gajewska), in: Poznański przewodnik literacki [Posen Literary Guide], eds. Paweł Cieliczko and Joanna Roszak, Media Rodzina, Poznań 2013, pp. 152-153.
  • Krystyna Kofta, in: Wielkopolski Alfabet Pisarek [The Alphabet of Women Writers from Greater Poland], eds. Ewa Kraskowska and Lucyna Marzec, Wydawnictwo Wojewódzkiej Biblioteki Publicznej i Centrum Animacji Kultury, Poznań 2012, pp. 145-151.
  • Małgorzata Musierowicz, in: Wielkopolski Alfabet Pisarek [The Alphabet of Women Writers from Greater Poland], eds. Ewa Kraskowska and Lucyna Marzec, Wydawnictwo Wojewódzkiej Biblioteki Publicznej i Centrum Animacji Kultury, Poznań 2012, pp. 229-234.
  • Matka odchodzi [Mother Passes Away], in: Panorama Literatury Polskiej [Panorama of Polish Literature], 2009.
  • Moja córeczka [My Little Daughter], in: Panorama Literatury Polskiej [Panorama of Polish Literature], 2009.

 
Translations (into Polish):

  • Audre Lorde, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, "LiteRacje" 2007, No. 1, pp. 71-72.
     

Participation in Academic and Organizational Events:

Research Projects and Networks:

  • 2017–2021 New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent, Researcher in the COST Action CA16213, member of the “Culture in the Grey Zone" working group.
  • 2017-2018 Marxist Literary Research in Polish People’s Republic and Czechoslovak Republic and Their Contexts, 1944-1956, a joint project of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences; participant of the research team.\
  • 2014-2017 Polish and Ukrainian Women’s Prose of the Interwar Period – A Central-European Perspective, National Science Center, Poland (international team research project: contractor); carried out in Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literary Research.
  • 2013-2019  Communism – History of the Concept in Poland, 1944-1989. Interpretations and Uses: Literature, Culture, Society,National Program for the Development of the Humanities, Poland (international team research project: contractor); carried out in Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literary Research.
  • 2013-2018  The Archives of Women: Writing, National Program for the Development of the Humanities, Poland (domestic team research project: contractor); carried out in Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literary Research.
  • 2011-2013  Gender and Nation: The Culture of Social Change in Poland after 1989, National Science Center, Poland (domestic individual research project: manager); carried out in Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literary Research.
  • 2011-2013 Encyclopedia of Gender: Figures, Motives, Symbols, National Science Center, Poland (domestic team research project: contractor); carried out in Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literary Research.
  • 2011-2013  To Tell of the People’s Poland, National Science Center, Poland (international team research project: contractor); carried out in Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literary Research.
  • 2010-2012 Encyclopedia of Gender, Ministry of Science and Higher Education/ National Science Center, Poland (international team research project: contractor); carried out in Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literary Research.
  • 2010-2012 The Senses in Polish Culture: Representations of Human Senses in Language, Literature and Art from Middle Ages to the Present, The National Center for Research and Development, Poland (domestic team research project: contractor); carried out in Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literary Research.


Teaching:

  • 2008-2016 Lecturer at the Postgraduate Gender Studies Program at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences:
  • Women, Communism and Emancipation in Postwar Poland (2015/2016)
  • Faces of Polish Backlash (2013/2014)
  • Feminism in the Land of Popular Culture (2011/2012, 2012/2013)
  • Critical Analysis of Media Discourse in Poland (2010/2011)
  • To Be a Leader on the Playground. “Masculinity Crisis" as a Figure of Backlash in Polish Culture after 1989 (2008/2009)
  • Feminism and the Media (spring 2008)


Public Activity/ Membership:

  • since 2019 member of the Memory Studies Association.
  • since 2017 member of the European Network in Universal and Global History.
  • since 2016 the European Commission’s expert/ evaluator in Horizon 2020 Programme.
  • since 2016 member of the International Society for Cultural History.
  • since 2015 member of the Polish Gender Studies Association.
  • since 2012 member of the Editorial Board of the “Lupa Obscura" publishing series at the Institute of Literary Research Publishing House.
  • since 2012 peer-reviewer in Jan Józef Lipski Master Thesis Competition, organized by the Open Republic – Association Against Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia.
  • since 2010 member of the Editorial Team of the cultural-political quarterly “Bez Dogmatu" [Without Dogma].
  • 2012-2015 peer-reviewer and jury member in the Master Thesis on Gender Issues Competition, organized by Postgraduate Gender Studies Program at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences.
  • 2009-2017 member of the Board of the Gender Center Foundation.
  • 2009-2016 coordinator of the cycle of socio-cultural debates “Feminaria".


Scholarships and Awards:

  • 2019 – Women’s Life Writing as Activism: Forging Collective Identities in the Auto/Biographical Works of Polish and Czechoslovak Female Communists and Dissidents, a 3-month DAAD research stay at the Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany.
  • 2018-2019 – Female Architects of the People’s Poland: Agency, Collective Auto/biography and Memory, a 5-month Junior Thyssen Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
  • 2017 Forgotten Revolution: Communist Female Intellectuals and the Making of Women’s Emancipation in Postwar Poland, a 6-month fellowship at Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena, Germany.
  • 2016-2017 Communist Women and the Spirit of Transgression: A History of One Generation, scholarship awarded under the Institute of Literary Research Programme for the Development of International Cooperation – IBL.eu.
  • 2013-2016 Award for an outstanding young scientist, Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland.
  • 2011-2012 “Wanda Who Preferred the Russian": Communist Women as a Subject of Gender Studies, scholarship awarded under the Institute of Literary Research Programme “Young IBL".