News from Professor Emerita Halina Filipowicz
Recent publications by Professor Emerita Halina Filipowicz include a chapter titled “Is Simply Saying ‘We’ Enough? Feminism, Transgression, and the Challenge of the Transnational Turn” in the volume Wheels of Change: Feminist Transgressions in Polish Culture and Society, ed. Jolanta Wróbel-Best (Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2021):
She has also published an article titled “Nowak, Alina. Oratorium oświęcimskie” in The Literary Encyclopedia online. The article recovers Nowak’s Oratorium oświęcimskie (Auschwitz Oratorio, 1970) from cultural amnesia and outlines a comparison of this play with Die Ermittlung: Oratorium in 11 Gesängen (The Investigation: Oratorio in Eleven Cantos, 1965), an Auschwitz oratorio by Peter Weiss.
Since 2020, Professor Filipowicz has served as Editor-in-Chief of The Polish Review, a peer-reviewed, international, and multidisciplinary scholarly journal. She is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the Review, entitled The Literary Landscape of Olga Tokarczuk and guest-edited by Joanna Trzeciak Huss (Kent State University).
In this special issue of The Polish Review, vol. 66, no. 2 (2021), scholars from around the globe offer their insights into the literary works of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk. Leading scholars from Poland, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States explore the full range of Tokarczuk’s literary output, with special attention to her novels. Of particular note is the strong representation of scholars from Poland, including Monika Świerkosz, Jerzy Jarzębski, Przemysław Czapliński, Agnieszka Czyżak, Katarzyna Kantner, and Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik, whose contributions appear in English translation. This issue is the first collection of papers devoted to the study of Tokarczuk’s works to be published in English and is a must-read for students of Tokarczuk. An interview with Joanna Trzeciak Huss, guest editor of the special issue, may be found here.