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Prof. Dr. Anna Artwinska

Prof. Dr. Anna Artwinska

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Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik)
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 4406
04107 Leipzig

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Abstract

Anna Artwińska is professor for Slavic literary studies (focus: West Slavic studies) and director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Leipzig. She studied Polish, journalism and Slavic studies at the universities of Poznan and Freiburg im Breisgau and received her doctorate in 2007 with the thesis "Poetry in the Service of Politics. The Case of Adam Mickiewicz in Communist Poland and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in East Germany". After her doctorate, she worked as a research assistant at the universities of Salzburg and Hamburg. In 2015, she received the Hamburg Teaching Award for outstanding achievements in university teaching. Since 2012 she has been a member of the Centre for Cultural and Literary Research on Communism at the Polish Academy of Sciences and since 2019 a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow.

Professional career

  • since 10/2022
  • since 06/2022
  • 10/2016 - 09/2022
  • 04/2012 - 09/2016
  • 10/2007 - 03/2012
  • 04/2003 - 04/2005
  • 10/2001 - 04/2007

Education

  • 10/2011 - 03/2012
  • 10/2001 - 04/2007
  • 10/1996 - 06/2001

Panel Memberships

  • since 10/2022
  • since 06/2021

  • Polish Literature without Borders
    Roćko, Agata
    Duration: 09/2020 – ongoing
    Funded by: Andere ausländische öffentliche Forschungsförderer
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik)
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  • The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central Eastern European Cultures: Concepts, Problems, and the Aesthetic of the Postcatastrophic Narration
    Artwinska, Anna
    Duration: 05/2017 – ongoing
    Funded by: Stiftungen Inland
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik)
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  • International Research Training Group "Belongings: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and Beyond"
    Weiss, Yfaat
    Duration: 08/2024 – 07/2029
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geschichte des 19. bis 21. Jahrhunderts; Kunstgeschichte mit einem SP i.d. Kunst Ost-, Ostmittelo. Südosteuropas und ihren interkult. Beziehungen
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  • Artwinska, A.; Tippner, A. (Eds.)
    The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures. Concepts, Problems, and the Aesthetics of Postcatastrophic Narration
    London: Routledge. 2022.
    ISBN: 9780367506209
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  • Artwinska, A.; Mrozik, A. (Eds.)
    Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
    London: Routledge. 2020.
    ISBN: 9780367423230
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  • Artwinska, A.; Tippner, A. (Eds.)
    Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, and Survival. Camp Literature in a Transnational Perspective
    Berlin: De Gruyter. 2019.
    ISBN: 978-3-11-062824-1
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  • Artwinska, A.; Starnawski, B.; Wolowiec, G. (Eds.)
    Studies on Socialist Realism: The Polish View
    Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag. 2016.
    ISBN: 978-3-631-63055-6
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  • Artwinska, A.; Schulze-Fellmann, J. (Eds.)
    Gender Studies im Dialog. Transnationale und transdisziplinäre Perspektiven
    Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 2022.
    DOI: 10.14361/9783839458075
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more publications

  • Andere herausragende Auszeichnungen: Hamburger Lehrpreis für herausragende Leistungen in der Hochschullehre
    Artwinska, Anna (Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik))
    awarded in 2015 by Behörde für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Gleichstellung.
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  • Andere Stipendien/Forschungspreise: Pre-Doc Award 2020
    Artwinska, Anna (Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik))
    awarded in 2020 by Leipzig University.
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  • Konferenz
    Family Constellations and Transnational Historical Imaginaries in Contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic Literatures
    Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik); Institut für Romanistik; Romanische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien mit den Schwerpunkten Französistik und Italianistik
    Event Organiser: Artwinska, Anna; Calderón Villarino, Ángela; Welge, Jobst
    23/11/2022 – 24/11/2022
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  • Ringvorlesung
    Leipziger Ringvorlesung zur Literatur, Kultur und Geschichte der Ukraine
    Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik); Historisches Seminar
    Event Organiser: Artwinska, Anna; Gerber, Jan
    14/04/2022 – 07/07/2022
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  • Forum
    Literatura polska bez granic: Forum języka i kultury polskiej w Saksonii (Polnische Literatur ohne Grenzen: Forum der polnischen Sprache und Kultur in Sachsen)
    Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik)
    Event Organiser: Artwinska, Anna; Zawadzka, Agnieszka; Roćko, Agata
    08/09/2021 – 11/09/2021
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  • Workshop
    Affective Encounters. Jewish Objects and Emotions in Poland and East-Central Europe after the Holocaust
    Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik)
    Event Organiser: Artwinska, Anna; Weizman, Yechiel
    23/06/2021 – 25/06/2021
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  • Konferenz
    Achtung, ein großer Autor! Pozor, velikáni! Milan Kundera und Bohumil Hrabal neu betrachtet
    Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik)
    Event Organiser: Artwinska, Anna; Colombi, Matteo; Rytel-Schwarz, Danuta
    14/02/2019 – 18/02/2019
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more events

  • Introduction in the Slavic Literary Studies

  • East- and Central European Children's Worlds. Polish and Czech children's literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.

  • Historical and literary perspectives on relations between Jews and non-Jews in Eastern Europe in 14 pictures

  • What history does literary history tell? The challenges of transnational literary historiography using the example of Slavic literatures

Research fields

Literature, literary studies

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