Krzysztof E. Borowski
@krzysztofeborowski.bsky.social
Faculty at UW–Madison. Scholar of Multilingualism & Slavic Cultures. Language, Identity & Digital Humanities in Post-Socialist Europe. President, North American Association of Teachers of Polish.
Academic profile: gns.wisc.edu/staff/borowski-krzysztof-e
Academic profile: gns.wisc.edu/staff/borowski-krzysztof-e
Coming up soon (October 2025): Kafka's bIopic, Franz, by Agnieszka Holland.
Planned next: a biopic of Jerzy Kosiński tentatively called Rabbit Garden.
Planned next: a biopic of Jerzy Kosiński tentatively called Rabbit Garden.
Franz (2025) HD trailer /původní znění/
YouTube video by Totalfilm.cz
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July 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Coming up soon (October 2025): Kafka's bIopic, Franz, by Agnieszka Holland.
Planned next: a biopic of Jerzy Kosiński tentatively called Rabbit Garden.
Planned next: a biopic of Jerzy Kosiński tentatively called Rabbit Garden.
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From Nobel Prize–winning poet Wisława Szymborska, a dazzling bilingual collection of verse that reveals her signature themes and techniques.
Enjoy a free sample of Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts and save 30% with code PUP30:
Enjoy a free sample of Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts and save 30% with code PUP30:
Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts
From Nobel Prize–winning poet Wisława Szymborska, a dazzling bilingual collection of verse that reveals her signature themes and techniques
press.princeton.edu
July 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
From Nobel Prize–winning poet Wisława Szymborska, a dazzling bilingual collection of verse that reveals her signature themes and techniques.
Enjoy a free sample of Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts and save 30% with code PUP30:
Enjoy a free sample of Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts and save 30% with code PUP30:
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🚨 Academic job alert!
We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.
Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!
We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.
Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!
Join the team of the Center for Totalitarian Studies! - Instytut Pileckiego
The Center for Totalitarian Studies has announced competitions for positions in the humanities. We are looking for professors, adjuncts and assistants.
instytutpileckiego.pl
July 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🚨 Academic job alert!
We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.
Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!
We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.
Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!
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Bartłomiej Błesznowski writes, "Subversive Modernity: Popular Institutions and Peasant Autobiographies in Poland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" for #SlavicReview. Read with open access.
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June 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Bartłomiej Błesznowski writes, "Subversive Modernity: Popular Institutions and Peasant Autobiographies in Poland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" for #SlavicReview. Read with open access.
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It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.
June 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.
💼 Job alert: Associate Professor/Professor in Polish History and the Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto.
More details: www.history.utoronto.ca/about-us/emp...
#HistoryJobs #AcademicJobs #PolishHistory #PolishStudies
More details: www.history.utoronto.ca/about-us/emp...
#HistoryJobs #AcademicJobs #PolishHistory #PolishStudies
May 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
💼 Job alert: Associate Professor/Professor in Polish History and the Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto.
More details: www.history.utoronto.ca/about-us/emp...
#HistoryJobs #AcademicJobs #PolishHistory #PolishStudies
More details: www.history.utoronto.ca/about-us/emp...
#HistoryJobs #AcademicJobs #PolishHistory #PolishStudies
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In Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska examines what happens when translators, poets, and artists expose the act of translation by placing parallel translation variants next to one another in a standalone work of art.
Out now: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Out now: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
May 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska examines what happens when translators, poets, and artists expose the act of translation by placing parallel translation variants next to one another in a standalone work of art.
Out now: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Out now: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
New book in #PolishStudies:
Dialogue and Influence: Essays on Polish and American Poets by Piotr Florczyk.
More: www.academicstudiespress.com/9798887197166
Dialogue and Influence: Essays on Polish and American Poets by Piotr Florczyk.
More: www.academicstudiespress.com/9798887197166
Dialogue and Influence
Dialogue and Influence weds a commitment to translation studies to historical and conceptual questions about translation, literary influence, and global lite...
www.academicstudiespress.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
New book in #PolishStudies:
Dialogue and Influence: Essays on Polish and American Poets by Piotr Florczyk.
More: www.academicstudiespress.com/9798887197166
Dialogue and Influence: Essays on Polish and American Poets by Piotr Florczyk.
More: www.academicstudiespress.com/9798887197166
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How does autofiction contend with technologically mediated ways of seeing and projecting the self? In our read of the week, Marek Makowski produces “A New Exercise in Looking”: Experiments in Autofiction and the Novels of Olga Tokarczuk. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...
May 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
How does autofiction contend with technologically mediated ways of seeing and projecting the self? In our read of the week, Marek Makowski produces “A New Exercise in Looking”: Experiments in Autofiction and the Novels of Olga Tokarczuk. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...
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Fancy doing research in Poland? Check out the Mieroszewski Scholarship Programme – up to 9 months of funding for researchers and great academic networking. Highly recommended! 26.05-26.06 – submission of applications mieroszewski.pl/en/scholarsh...
Research Scholarships | Mieroszewski Centre
Fellowship programmes for researchers studying the history, culture, and politics of Central and Eastern Europe.
mieroszewski.pl
May 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Fancy doing research in Poland? Check out the Mieroszewski Scholarship Programme – up to 9 months of funding for researchers and great academic networking. Highly recommended! 26.05-26.06 – submission of applications mieroszewski.pl/en/scholarsh...
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Interesting on imagining the scope and the present of Polish fashion, which Karolina Sulej (author of a book about clothes in concentration camps) dates to 1918, and the many kinds of Poland that fashion has cultivated since as an incubator of diversity of sorts culture.pl/en/article/p...
Polish Fashion is Folk, Rude, Political, Rebellious: An Interview with Karolina Sulej
As part of the cultural programme of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council, one standout highlight, a slightly unexpected one, will be ‘East Bound’, a showcase of Polish fashion. On 12th May 2025, a...
culture.pl
May 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Interesting on imagining the scope and the present of Polish fashion, which Karolina Sulej (author of a book about clothes in concentration camps) dates to 1918, and the many kinds of Poland that fashion has cultivated since as an incubator of diversity of sorts culture.pl/en/article/p...
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Fascinating piece on the representation of Thailand in White Lotus Season Three, by @burrata.bsky.social via @asianstudies.org #AsianNow blog www.asianstudies.org/the-farang-g...
The Farang Gaze in Season 3 of The White Lotus - Association for Asian Studies
By Benjamin Tausig The third season of The White Lotus (HBO) does not lack for drama—incest, jealousy, violent ideations, jewel heists—but a far quieter moment stands out as emblematic of creator Mike...
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May 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Fascinating piece on the representation of Thailand in White Lotus Season Three, by @burrata.bsky.social via @asianstudies.org #AsianNow blog www.asianstudies.org/the-farang-g...
Being able to locate a Zoom link in time to join the meeting should now count as a basic academic job requirement.
May 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Being able to locate a Zoom link in time to join the meeting should now count as a basic academic job requirement.
I watched a 1997 movie this Saturday and it was supposed to feature a Russian mafia boss before it turned out that the boss's name was Alexei Vassili Sergei Fyodor Jovanovic, which then made me automatically explain why that random name combo was unlikely to be authentically Russian. #SlavistsAtWork
May 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I watched a 1997 movie this Saturday and it was supposed to feature a Russian mafia boss before it turned out that the boss's name was Alexei Vassili Sergei Fyodor Jovanovic, which then made me automatically explain why that random name combo was unlikely to be authentically Russian. #SlavistsAtWork
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