Ewa Ignaczak Is a Literary Scholar, and a Native of Poland. Her Current Interests Include

Ewa Ignaczak is a literary scholar, and a native of Poland. Her current interests include anthropological contexts of literature, literary fiction as part of national cultural canon,and the agency of literature in cultural transfer.

Apart from the field of literature, she also did research into cultural and political aspects of migration and post-communist transformation in Poland. Between 2003 and 2006 she has been affiliated with the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam as a post-doc researcher involved in a project sponsored by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and focused on nationalism as a factor in labour emigration in the Netherlands.

Education and degrees:

2000 Ph.D. in Philosophy (‘New Historicism in Literary Studies and the Problem of Theory’), Institute of English Studies, Wrocław University, Poland

1989 M.A. in English Language and Literature; Wrocław University

1982 – 1989 Studies in the Institute of English Studies; Wrocław University, Poland

Previous experience and positions held:

2005 University teacher at RooseveltAcademy, Middelburg

Teaching tasks:

Great Literary Works

2003 - March 2006 Post doc researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam NWO research project Social Cohesion – Caught Between Scylla and Charybdis? Changing Orientations of Migrant Organisations in the Era of National States, 1880-2000.

2003 – University teacher at UtrechtUniversity, 3rd year Anthropology: Cultural Trauma, Violence and Reconciliation

1989 – 2001 University teacher and researcher at the Institute of English Studies, Wrocław University

Teaching tasks:

-Literary Theory and Methodology of Literary Study;

- History of English Literature in the Modernity;

-Advanced English (practical);

-Normative English Grammar;

-Argumentative Writing;

-Conversation;

Other Activities:

1998 – 2001 Coordinator of a research project in class formation and systemic transformation in Wrocław, Poland, organised and sponsored by the Institute for the Human Sciences (Vienna)

1988 – 2003 Social-science text translator and editor (Wrocław University Press)

Main Publications:

1996 New Historicism - Some Programmatic Assumptions, Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, Łódź/Wrocław, Poland

1997 Meaning and Its Context, Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, Łódź/Wrocław, Poland

1999 Corporate Look, Focaal no 33,Nijmegen

2000 Coping with Transitions, Focaal 36, Nijmegen

2000 New Historicism in Literary Study and the Problem of Theory. Wrocław: WrocławUniversity (PhD)

2001 Against Portable Worlds, Focaal 37, Nijmegen

2002 On the Periphery of Workers’ Protest, Focaal 39, Nijmegen

2003 Pity that ‘Our Polish Foreigners’ Are Gone …, Focaal 41, Nijmegen

2004 The Cognitive Cure of Writing Anthropology of Exile, Focaal 44, Berghahn Books,

2005 On the Good and Bad of Telling about and on Others We Know …, Focaal 45, Berghahn Books

2006 - (forthcoming) In a Kingdom between the Wars, or: between the Republic and the

Church. Polish Emigrant Organisations in the Netherlands 1914-1945.

Grants and participation in conferences:

2004 Berlin, European Social Science History Association

1999 University College London, seminar 'Reading Text, Constructing Theory, Thinking Ethics’, Anthropological Complications of New Historicism

1999 Norbert Elias in Breslau/Wrocław organised by the Norbert Elias Foundation Amsterdam, WrocławUniversity, Poland

1998 Amsterdam, European Social Science History Association

1997 J-F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University Berlin

Major translations

1989 Richard Rorty, Prywatna Ironia i Nadzieja Liberałów, in Contingency, Irony, Solidarity, Twórczość, 1989

1996 Richard Shusterman, Sztuka Popularna a Edukacja, Notatnik Teatralny (12-13, 1996)

1998 Richard Shusterman, Organic Unity: Analysis and Deconstruction; Form and Funk, (in: Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art), Wrocław, WrocławUniversity Press

Other activities

2003-2005 Book review section editor of Focaal. European Journal of Anthropology

2003-2004 Editor of International Review of Social History

1999 Coordinator of the conference Norbert Elias in Breslau / Wrocław