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The Publishing House of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences was established in 1990 and since then has published more than 500 titles. The books published by the Institute are addressed to both specialists – like literary scholars, critics, Polish philology teachers, men of letters – and to all bibliophiles and people interested in the wider humanities. Our books enjoy a good opinion among readers and are highly rated by professionals, as evidenced by several publishing competition awards, including:

• The Third Warsaw Meeting of the Good Book Publishers’ Award in 1994 for the volume of essays Geniusz wydziedziczony [Disinherited Genius] by Stefan Treugutt;
• "The Most Beautiful Book of the Year" Competititon Award of the Association of Book Publishers in 1995 for the book Inni wśród swoich [Others Among Their Own];
• The Fredro’s Quill Award in 1998 for Gdańsk oświeconych [Gdańsk of the Enlightened] by Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz and, in 1999, for publishing the autographs of Mickiewicz’s Dziady [Mickiewicz’s Forefathers’ Eve];
• The PTWK distinction in the "The Most Beautiful Book of the Year" Competititon in 2013 for the series Dramat Polski. Reaktywacja [Polish Drama: A Resurgence] edited by Artur Grabowski and Jacek Kopciński;
• An Akademia 2014 special distinction for the best academic and scholarly publication for editing Jan Tomkowski’s book Wojna książek. Biblioteka i historia literatury [Book War: The Library and Literary History];
• Nominations for the Jan Długosz Award of 2014 for the book Słowa i ludzie – 10 szkiców z antropologii filologicznej [Words and People: Ten Essays in Philological Anthropology] by Danuta Ulicka and for the book Modalności modernizmu. Studia – analizy – interpretacje [Modalities of Modernism: Studies – Analyses – Interpretations] by Włodzimierz Bolecki.

As part of many book series, the Publishing House of the Institute publishes habilitation theses, conference proceedings, monographs, edited volumes, and critical editions of the works of writers representing old Polish literature.

Research Group "Women's Archive"

Members of the Team:

Chair: Professor Monika Rudaś-Grodzka
Professor Anna Nasiłowska
Dr. Katarzyna Nadana-Sokołowska
Dr. Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz
Dr. Agnieszka Mrozik

About the Team:

The Team was appointed on May 1, 2011.

Research Group for Holocaust Literature

Room 138

Members of the Team:

Associate Professor Jacek Leociak (Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences) – Team Leader
Dr. Dorota Krawczyńska (Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Dr. Bartłomiej Krupa

Scholars cooperating regularly:

Dr. Sławomir Buryła (Warmia and Masuria University)
Ms. Marta Janczewska, M.A. (Jewish Historical Institute – Research Institute)

On May 1, 2004, the Directorate of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences made the decision to create a team of Holocaust literature researchers (at present, the Holocaust Literature Research Team).

Presentation of research plans and publishing activities

Research

The research projects that we conceive and carry out aim at describing the evidence that the Holocaust has left in Polish literature and culture. However, the cognitive range of the team’s research is much broader. Its ultimate aim is to capture a particular asset of the Polish-Jewish relationship in history and culture, and open up to multiculturalism and the cultural borderland, both understood as a value. Research work is accompanied by the collection of materials, archival and library search queries, the organization of scholarly conferences, seminars, and lectures, the establishing of national and international academic cooperation.

The first research project run by the team is the monograph Literatura polska wobec Zagłady [Polish Literature Facing the Holocaust]. The project will include the team’s work on developing a comprehensive presentation, analysis, and interpretation of literary testimonies of the Holocaust during World War II in the historical, political, and sociological contexts. It will also take into account the public discourse in Polish and Jewish press, film production, and photographic documentation, all against the background of world literature. Intended on such a large scale, the project is unprecedented in Polish literature on the subject. The monograph is divided into two volumes: volume I covers the years 1939-1968 and volume II the period after 1968.

Editing

The team has launched an initiative to establish a Library of the Holocaust Testimonies to be developed jointly with the Polish Center for Holocaust Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and with the KARTA Center. The initiative springs from the conviction that, as compared to the existing archival resources, still too few texts have been published and made available to readers. The texts are scarce considering the research needs and readers’ interests, as well as the appeals present in almost every surviving inscription, imposing on future readers the moral obligation of reading.

The planned publication series will put forward the source materials for the history of the Holocaust, especially personal documents, such as diaries, memoirs, letters, recollections, and reports, which have not been published anywhere until now (stored in the Archives of the Jewish Historical Institute, the Yad Vashem Archives, the Archives of the Ghetto Fighters’ Kibbutz, the New Records Archives, the Archives of the Capital City of Warsaw, and others). They will also include the documents in the possession of the authors’ families. At the beginning, we wish to concentrate our efforts on the Warsaw ghetto sources. In the future, we may expand the thematic areas and include the publication of translated materials or the reedition of the prints that are rare and difficult to reach.

Research Group for European Literatures

Room 302; Tel. (22) 657 27 11
Office Hours: Thursdays 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Members of the Team:

Professor Krzysztof Mrowcewicz – Team Leader
Professor Jerzy Snopek
Dr. Ewa Rot-Buga
Dr. Wojciech Kaliszewski

Research Group for Literature and Culture of Late Modernity

Room 230, tel. (22) 6572-854

Team

prof. dr hab. Marek Zaleski (Head)
dr hab. Andrzej Leśniak, prof. IBL PAN
dr Paweł Mościcki
dr Justyna Tabaszewska
dr hab. Katarzyna Czeczot
dr Aleksandra Wójtowicz

Collaborators

dr hab. Adam Lipszyc
dr Jakub Momro
dr Karolina Felberg-Sendecka
mgr Dorota Jarecka

About

The members of the research group share a conviction that contemporary studies of literature cannot be pursued in isolation from culture in the broad sense, and the influence of its disciplines on the techniques and imagination of both contemporary writers and readers. This is precisely the reason why the subject of our interest in literature in the context of other branches of culture such as: photography, visual and performative arts, theatre, film, comic books, television, etc. Interdisciplinarity is thus a starting point and one of the major assumptions of the work of our research group.

Moreover, theoretical reflection without which it seems impossible to grasp and render in full complex interrelations of various cultural disciplines. In the work of our group we plan to combine cultural and literary studies discourses with those of critical theory, social sciences, anthropology as well as other disciplines in the humanities, where that which is particular and that which is general keep ceaselessly refer to each other.

The third assumption of our activity is an approach to modernity and postmodernity as a dynamic continuum marked by crises perceived as the turning points.