91滴滴

Associate professor at the Department of British Literature and Culture (Institute of English Studies, 91滴滴).

Last project 鈥淚RELLAS: Irish Poets and Contemporary Greece鈥� () was devoted to Irish poets' travels in Greece as well as their translations and reception of Modern Greek poetry. Part of the project was carried out in the framework of the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship in cooperation with the University of Athens.

Joint doctorate (th猫se en co-tutelle), Universit茅 Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and 91滴滴: The Role of Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry in the Context of the Conflict in Ulster (2003, grade: tr猫s honorable).

Translator and interpreter (conference interpreter training at the European Parliament and the Council of Europe).

Vice-President (2000-2019) of the Tansman Association for the Promotion of Culture (organiser of the Tansman International Festival and Competition of Musical Personalities, and of the Children鈥檚 Creativity Festival).

Research interests:

Comparative poetry (Irish, British, Modern Greek, Polish); ecocriticism, travel writing, literary translation; political, historical and social contexts

Organised conferences:

• Borders and Crossings 2023: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing (91滴滴 / University of Glasgow)
• Irish-Greek poetic symposium Living / Writing: Inner and Outer Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets (University of Athens, 2015)
• Experiment in Drama, Theatre, Film and Media (91滴滴, 2017)
• Culture as a Chance for the Development of Lodz and Its Region (2006)

Supervised theses:
Ireland and the Environment; Ireland in the 20th century (literature and culture); British literature

Grants:

• Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (2015-2016)
• Scholarship of the Greek government at the University of Ioannina, Greece (2007-2008)
• Joint doctorate scholarship (bourse de co-tutelle), Universit茅 Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle (2003)
• British Council Joseph Conrad Scholarship, University of Ulster (2001)
• European Parliament's scholarship for conference interpreters, University of Bradford (1999)
• Scholarship for conference interpreters, L鈥橧nstitut de Traducteurs, d鈥橧nterpr猫tes et de Relations Internationales, Universit茅 des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg (1998)

Visiting scholarships:

University of Athens (2011-2012)

Additional diplomas:

Conference interperet's diploma (91滴滴 / Universit茅 des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg, 1998)

Publications:

Monograph:

Irish Poets and Modern Greece: Heaney, Mahon, Cavafy, Seferis. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Edited books:

Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets: Essays, Poems, Interviews. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018.

Diversity and Homogeneity: The Politics of Nation, Ethnicity and Gender. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. (co-editor: Paulina Mirowska)

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

鈥淔ootsteps Travel in Iceland: Armitage, MacNeice, Auden.鈥� Studies in Travel Writing 26.2 (2023): 104-118, DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2023.2240531

鈥淧aula Meehan鈥檚 Greek Poem: Environmental Footsteps.鈥� Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 2023 (online), 48.2 (Oct 2024), DOI: 10.1017/byz.2023.18

"Museum Project: 14 Henrietta St. Museum, Paula Meehan, Dragana Juri拧i膰 and the Irish Housing Crisis." Text Matters 12 (2022): 452-469, doi: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.27

鈥濸谤辞箩别办迟 Museum, Paula Meehan i Dragana Juri拧i膰: irlandzki kryzys mieszkaniowy w trzech ods艂onach,鈥� Studia Filologiczne UJK 35 (2022): 463-483, doi: 10.25951/8444

鈥淢emorials of the Irish West: John McHugh, Paul Durcan and Harry Clifton.鈥� Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 25.2 (Fall 2019): 357-374.

鈥淒ecadent Tourism in Derek Mahon鈥檚 The Yellow Book.鈥� 脡tudes Irlandaises 42.2 (2017): 123-138.

鈥淭he (Im)palpable: Two Cycladic Landscapes by Derek Mahon and Michael Longley.鈥� Landscapes 17.1 (2016): 3-22.

鈥�Cast out of Reality in the Labyrinth on the Sea: Zbigniew Herbert鈥檚 Crete and Its Myth.鈥� Modern Greek Studies Online 2 (2016): A 41-65.

鈥淐avafy in Poland.鈥� Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 39.2 (2015): 266-285.

鈥淲ho Gets Translated and Why? Anthologies of Twentieth-century Greek Poetry in Poland.鈥� Journal of Modern Greek Studies 33.1 (May 2015): 105-125.

鈥淭he Use of Ulster Speech by Michael Longley and Tom Paulin.鈥� Text Matters 1 (2011): 241-253.

鈥淟anguage and Fiction as Subjects and Media of Simon Armitage鈥檚 Poems.鈥� Folia Litteraria Anglica 5 (2002): 111-121.

Book chapters:

鈥淭he Edges of Europe: Affinities between Ireland and Greece.鈥� Encounters in Greek and Irish Fiction. Ed. Paschalis Nikolau. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 1-9.

鈥淚rish Poets on Paros: O鈥橤rady, Mahon, Longley, Brennan.鈥� Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets: Essays, Poems, Interviews. Ed. Joanna Kruczkowska. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. 71-94.

鈥淚ntroduction: Inner and Outer Landscapes in Irish and Greek Poetry.鈥� Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets: Essays, Poems, Interviews. Ed. Joanna Kruczkowska. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. 1-18.

鈥淭om Paulin and Ulster: Subversion or Sabotage?鈥� 1916 and Irish Literature, Culture and Society. Irish Studies in Europe 6. Ed. Sean Crosson and Werner Huber. Trier: WVT, 2015. 167-182.

鈥�A Sketch for an 鈥業dyll鈥�: Eliot, Auden and Seferis in Cyprus.鈥� Poets of the Past, Poets of the Present. Ed. Monika Szuba and Tomasz Wi艣niewski. Gda艅sk: Gda艅sk University Press, 2013. 13-30.

鈥�Szkic do 鈥榮ielanki鈥�: Eliot, Auden, Seferis i sprawa cypryjska鈥� [w:] Poeci wsp贸艂cze艣ni. Poeci przesz艂o艣ci pod red. Moniki Szuby i Tomasza Wi艣niewskiego, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gda艅skiego, Gda艅sk, 2013, s. 89-106.

鈥淟inguistic Substitution vs. Metonymy: Two Poems by Ciar谩n Carson and Michael Longley on the Northern Irish Conflict.鈥� Comparative Studies in Anglophone Literatures: Transnational, Postcolonial, and Auto/thematic (re)Considerations and (re)Visions. Ed. Grzegorz Koneczniak. Toru艅: Toru艅 University Press, 2012. 205-215.

鈥淒erek Mahon鈥檚 Seascapes Mediated through Greece: Antiquity in Modernity, Nature in Abstraction.鈥� Irish Landscapes: New Myths, New Perspectives. Ed. Marie Mianowski. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 69-80.

鈥淥penness and Light in the Dialogue between the North and the South 鈥� Selected Poems by Contemporary Irish and Greek Poets.鈥� The Playful Air of Light(ness) in Irish Literature and Culture. Ed. Marta Goszczy艅ska and Katarzyna Poloczek. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 17-29. (Heaney, Mahon, Seferis)

鈥淜ings and Poets: Self-Irony in Selected Poems by George Seferis and Derek Mahon.鈥� Here/Now 鈥� Then/There: Traditions, Memory, Innovation in Modern British and Irish Poetry. Essays on Modern British and Irish Poetry. Ed. Ludmi艂a Gruszewska Blaim and David Malcolm. Gda艅sk: Gda艅sk University Press, 2011. 46-61.

鈥淣orthern Irish Poets and the Identity Split.鈥� Kulturowe przedstawienia psychiatrii i chor贸b psychicznych. Ed. Katarzyna Szmigiero. Piotrk贸w Trybunalski: Piotrk贸w Scientific Press, 2009. 123-131.

鈥淪eamus Heaney on Zbigniew Herbert. Affinities.鈥� Studies in Literature and Culture in Honour of Prof. Janicka-艢widerska. Ed. M. Edelson. Lodz: Lodz University Press, 2002. 111-121.

Articles in literary journals:

鈥淕dziekolwiek p贸jd臋, Grecja mnie rani. Seferis i jego dziennik鈥� [Wherever I travel, Greece wounds me: Seferis and his Diary]. Odra 9 (Sept 2021): 74-79.

D.Phil. dissertation:

Role of Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry in the Context of the Conflict in Ulster. Paris: Universit茅 Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Lodz: 91滴滴, 2003 (330 p.; additionally: summary in French: 88 p., summary in Polish: 79 p.).

Interviews:

鈥淏etween Ireland and Greece: Interview with Paula Meehan.鈥� Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets. Ed. Joanna Kruczkowska. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. 165-172.

(appeared previously in the Poeticanet journal: )

鈥淭emenos, Eurydice, Ithaca: Interview with Theo Dorgan.鈥� Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets. Ed. Joanna Kruczkowska. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. 173-184.

Audio interviews:

18 recorded interviews with writers, critics, translators (see the IRELLAS project website, under "interviews").

Others: numerous translations from English, French, and Modern Greek, including

Solomos, Aleksis. 艢wi臋ty Bachus. Nieznane lata teatru greckiego 300 p.n.e.-1600 n.e. [螒位苇尉畏蟼 危慰位蠅渭蠈蟼, 螒纬喂慰蟼 螔维魏蠂慰蟼; Solomos, Alexis. Saint Bacchus, 1964]. Transl. Joanna Kruczkowska and Beata Schada Borzyszkowska. Wroc艂aw: Grotowski Institute, 2010.

Translations of George Seferis鈥檚 essays, Literatura na 艢wiecie

Griva, Anna. Poems. Transl. Joanna Kruczkowska and Markos Dendrinos. Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets: Essays, Poems, Interviews. Ed. Joanna Kruczkowska. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. 252-263.