Alumnus, Department of Anthropology of Literature and Cultural Studies
About
Karolina Szymaniak is a researcher, editor, translator and language instructor with a PhD in literary and cultural studies. Her interests range across modern Jewish literature, theories of modernism and of the avant-garde, and women's literature. Her doctorate dealt with the problems and discourse of Yiddish literary criticism. She edited a bilingual, Polish-Yiddish, anthology Warszawska awangarda jidysz [Warsaw Yiddish Avant-garde, Gdansk, 2005]. In 2006 her book on the aesthetics of a pre-War Polish-Yiddish writer Debora Vogel was published. Her articles appeared in Polish, English and Belorussian. Currently she has finished a bilingual anthology of Yiddish poetry by women (to be published in 2012).
She is a director of the Center for Yiddish Culture and the editor-in-chief of “Tsivshn”, a Polish-language literary and arts quarterly devoted to Yiddish culture.
She is a member of the Executive Committee of Polish Association for Yiddish Studies.
She held various scholarships, granted by, inter alia, the Polish Ministry of Education, the Foundation for Polish Science, The Ryoichi Sasakawa Fund and The Centre for Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews of Vilnius University.
She has taught Yiddish in various institutions, including Jewish Community Center (JCC) Cracow, Center for Yiddish Culture of the Shalom Foundation (Warsaw), Wroclaw University, International Seminar in Yiddish Language and Culture (Srodborow and Warsaw), Summer Program in Yiddish Language and Literature (Vilnius Yiddish Institute).
She gives courses on Jewish literatures and cultures at Jagiellonian University in Cracow and Jewish Open University in Warsaw.
