prof. dr hab. Bożenna Chylińska

Department of North American Cultures and Literatures

full professor

Room number: 232

Phone: +48 (22) 55 314 12

email: b.chylinska@uw.edu.pl

Office hours: Winter semester 22/23
by e-mail appointment
room 3.415

Degrees

M.A., University of Warsaw, 1975

Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 1984

Post-doctoral (hab.), University of Warsaw, 1997

Associate Professor, 1999

Full Professor, 2014

Research interests and projects

history and culture of colonial America and the United States
history and culture of Britain
racial and ethnic identity studies
Gender Studies
British imperialism and colonialism – the cultural conquest
postcolonial theory
postcolonial cultures, literatures, and national identities. Texts of literature as texts of
culture (Africa, the Caribbean)
colonial and postcolonial religious thought (the protestant Reformation, Puritanism and Puritan legacies)

Selected publications

I. Monografie i tomy redagowane:

Chylińska, B. (2018). The Mystique of the Northwest Passage. Martin Frobisher’s Voyages to the Arctic Wasteland, 1576-1578. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Stron 212.

Chylińska, B. (2012). The Gospel of Work and Wealth in the Puritan Ethic. From John Calvin to Benjamin Franklin. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Stron 336.

Chylińska, B. (1996).‘In Search of Greener Pastures.’A Hundred Years of the Zionist Idea in the United States: From Zionism to Israelism. Warsaw: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. Stron 261.

Chylińska, B. (2010). [Red., “Preface”]Revolutions, Evolutions, and Devolutions in Europe, America, and Elsewhere. Warsaw: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. Stron 236 + vii.

Chylińska, B. (2009). [Red., “Introduction”]. Ideology and Rhetoric: Constructing America. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Stron 401 + xi.

II. Artykuły w punktowanych i recenzowanych czasopismach oraz rozdziały w książkach:

Chylińska, B. (2017). „Purytańska wizja roli kobiety w dyskursie społecznym w XVII-wiecznej Nowej Anglii”. [W:] ‘Kolana zginaj tylko przed Panem’.Wkład protestantyzmu w kulturę Zachodu. Red. Zbigniew Pasek. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Libron. 111-130.

Chylińska, B. (2016).“The Status of Women in Social Theology of Early Puritan New England”. Acta Philologica. Tom: 49. 99-112.

Chylińska, B. (2015).“American Zionism in the World War I Years: Between Academic Discourse and Pragmatic Approach”. [W:] World War I from Local Perspectives: History, Literature and Visual Arts. Austria, Britain, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Poland and the United States. Red. Mirosława Buchholtz and Grzegorz Koneczniak. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 145-158.

Chylińska, B. (2015).“From the Medieval Church to the English Reformation: John Wycliffe and King Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536-1539”. Acta Philologica. Tom: 47. 5-16.

Chylińska, B. (2015).“The Colonial American Working Wife and Her Dear and Loving Husband Absent upon Some Public Employment: Deborah and Benjamin Franklin’s Married Life”. Polish Journal for American Studies. Tom: 9. 5-20.

Chylińska, B. (2015). „Heskie oddziały pomocnicze w służbie króla Jerzego III w czasie Rewolucji Amerykańskiej (1776-1783)”. Studia Niemcoznawcze. Tom: 55. 143-154.

Chylińska, B. (2014).“Personal Diary as a Reality Presentation Method. Lady Margaret Hoby’s Self-Portrait (1599-1605)”. Studia Methodologica. Tom: 39. 6-13.

Chylińska, B. (2011).“‘The Culture of Consumption’: American Influence on the Popular Culture of Post-World War Two Europe”. [W:] European Culture in Diversity. Red. Krystyna Kujawińska, Maria Łukowska and Evan Williams . New Castle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 23-31.

Chylińska, B. (2010).“Introduction: On the Concept of Revolution, Evolution and Devolution”. [W:] Revolutions, Evolutions, and Devolutions in Europe, America, and Elsewhere. Red. Bożenna Chylińska .Warsaw: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. 3-11.

Chylińska, B. (2009).“Cultural Zionism. Ahad Ha-Am and His American Adherents”. [W:] Ideology and Rhetoric: Constructing America. Red. Bożenna Chylińska. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 241-253.

Chylińska, B. (2009).“Americanization of European Culture after World War II”. Orbis Linguarum. Tom: 34. 463-471.

Chylińska, B. (2008). „ O naturze uprzedzeń. Źródła antysemityzmu amerykańskiego”. Orbis Linguarum. Tom: 33. 221-230.

Chylińska, B. (2007). „Francis (Franz) Daniel Pastorius i inni. Osadnictwo niemieckie w brytyjskiej Ameryce kolonialnej oraz w okresie wczesnej Republiki”. [W:] Kultura-Literatura-Język. Kultur-Literatur-Sprache. Red. Katarzyna Grzywka, et al. Warszawa: Instytut Germanistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. 166-170.

Chylińska, B. (2007). „Żony i Matki Założycielki. Kobieta i jej rodzina w kulturze i literaturze wczesno purytańskiej Nowej Anglii”. [W:] Wielkie tematy literatury amerykańskiej Tom IV: Rodzina. Red. Teresa Pyzik. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego. 19-30.

Chylińska, B. (2007).“The Jewish shtetl in the American Metropolis. Russian Jewish Immigrants in New York City toward the End of the 19^th Century”. [W:] Multiculturalism at the Start of 21^st Century. The British-Polish Experience. Australian Theory and Practice. Red. Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney i Maria A. Łukowska. Łódź: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. 215-225.

Chylińska, B. (2006).“From a Frontier Settler to a Country Gentleman: The Social Transformation of the 17th-Century Virginia Cavalier”. [W:] American Freedoms. American (Dis)orders. 2 vols. Red. Zbigniew Lewicki. Warszawa: Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. II, 15-22.

Chylińska, B. (2006).“Black Womanhood Assaulted. Slave Women Narratives, Autobiographies and Oral Testimonies in the Antebellum American South”. Orbis Linguarum. Tom: 30. 165-174.

Chylińska, B. (2006). „Pomiędzy czarnym i białym Bogiem. Język a tożsamość religijna Afro-Amerykanów w okresie niewolnictwa”. Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny. Nr: 4. 133-139.

Chylińska, B. (2005). „Zacna kobieta z Nowej Anglii. Purytańskie korzenie poezji Anne Bradstreet”. [W:] Piękniejszy dom od Prozy: o amerykańskiej poezji kobiecej. Red. Lucyna Aleksandrowicz Pędich i Jerzy Kamionowski. Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku. 11-21.

Chylińska, B. (2004). „ ‘Czarna skóra, biała maska’. LeRoi Jones i jego ‘Teatr Okrucieństwa’”. [W:] Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Essays in British and American Literature and Studies. Red. Grażyna i Andrzej Branny. Kraków: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. 71-82.

Chylińska, B. (2002).“‘A Paralysis of Will.’The American Policy of Inaction toward Nazi Victims during the Holocaust: The War Refugee Board Story, 1943-1945”. Anglica. Investigating Literature, Culture and Language. Tom: 12. 59-68.

Chylińska, B. (2001).“‘At the Darkest Hour’: American Zionism and the Jewish National Home Policy in the United States during the Holocaust”. International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal. Tom: 2, nr: 1. 81-93.

Chylińska, B. (2000).“Modernizing American Jewish Thought. Cultural Pluralism and the Zionist Ideology of Louis Brandeis, Horace Kallen, and Mordecai Kaplan between WWI and WWII”. ZAA. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. A Quarterly for Language, Literature and Culture. Tom: XLVIII. Zeszyt 4. 334-342. Czasopismo na Liście Filadelfijskiej.

Chylińska, B. (1999).“Friends or Foes: Anti-Semitism in Colonial America”. [W:] PASE Papers in Literature. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English. Szczyrk, May 1998. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego. 133-141.

Chylińska, B. (1999).“From Ahad Ha-Am to Horace Kallen and Mordecai Kaplan. The American Response to Cultural Zionism”. [W:] Cultural Policy or the Politics of Culture? Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference of the Polish Association for American Studies. Serock, November1997. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. 245-252.

Chylińska, B. (1998).“‘Homo Judaicus Americanus.’Rabbi David Philipson – an American Jew”. American Studies. Tom: XVI. 57-65.

Chylińska, B. (1998). „Między kultem a sceną. Tradycyjny teatr Afryki Zachodniej”. [W:] Acta Philologica. Tom: 25. 7-26.

Chylińska, B. (1998). „Pod znakiem Négritude: od czarnej poezji do filozofii murzyńsko-afrykańskiego wyzwolenia”. Przegląd Orientalistyczny. Tom: 124, nr: 1-2. 21-35.

Chylińska, B. (1998).“Between the World of Flesh and the World of Spirit: The Archetypal Human Tragedy in T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral”. [W:] PASE Papers in Literature, Language and Culture. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Polish Society for the Study of English, Puławy 1997 (Lublin: Wydawnictwa Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego. 75-85.

Chylińska, B. (1998).“From the World of Archetypes to the World of Myth. On the ‘Poeticality’of Thomas Stearns Eliot’s Early Drama. Anglica. Papers on Literature, Culture and Language. Tom: 8. 9-19.

Chylińska, B. (1997).“Archetypal Quest for Spiritual Survival in T.S. Eliot’s Drama: From The Family Reunion to The Elder Statesman”. Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny. Tom: XLIV, nr: 2. 113-130.

Chylińska, B. (1996).“A Noble Obligation. Louis Dembitz Brandeis and American Zionism”. [W:] PASE Papers in Literature, Language and Culture. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the Polish Society for the Study of English, Popowo, April 1994. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. 227-234.

Chylińska, B. (1994).“Is America our Zion? Zionism and American Jewry in Herzlian and Philipsonian Thought”. Anglica. Studies in Literature, Culture and Language. Tom: 5. 9-18.

Chylińska, B. (1992).“Black Idiom in American Theater. Images of Black Victimhood in the Nineteen-Thirties and Forties”. American Studies. Tom: XIII. 41-49.

Chylińska, B. (1988).“Black Presence in the USA before 1900: The Negro Spirituals”. Ephemera. Bulletin du Centre de Recherches pour L’Étude des Sociétés Américaines et Britanniques .CRESAB/CEAA. Nr: 6-7. 10-18.

Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN

Conferences

2012 – Conference of the European Society for the Study of English [ESSE], Stambuł, Turcja;

2008 – ESSE Conference, Århus, Dania;

2008 – International Conference of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, Almagro, Castilla-La Mancha, Hiszpania;

2004 – ESSE Conference, Saragossa, Hiszpania;

2002 – Conference of the European Association for American Studies [EAAS], Bordeaux, Francja;

2000 – ESSE Conference, Helsinki, Finlandia;

1999 – Wymiana między Instytutem Anglistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego a Instytutem Anglistyki Uniwersytetu w Glasgow. Kwerenda biblioteczna (1 miesiąc);

1998 – EAAS Conference, Lizbona, Portugalia;

1995 – Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), Waszyngton, D.C., USA;

1994 – Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies [AJS], Boston, Massachussetts, USA;

1992 – University of Edinburgh Summer School (Studies in Literature, History and Culture, 1900-1992), Szkocja (6 tygodni);

1989 – The American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Wykład: “The View from the Outside: a Polish Perspective on American Jewish Identity and the State of Israel”;

1989 – California State University at San Bernardino, USA. Wykłady: i. “Jews in Contemporary Poland’, ii. “Jews in Contemporary America”;

1989 – University of Washington at St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Wykład: “The Jewish Experience in Poland: From the Earliest Records to the 18^thCentury”;

1989 – Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), St. Louis, Missouri, USA;

1989 – The United States Information Agency. Conference of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Waszyngton, D.C., USA: “The United States at 2000”;

1988 – Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA), Miami, Floryda, USA;

1988 – Conference of the National Foundation for the Jewish Culture, Berkeley – Stanford, California, USA: “The Writer in the Jewish Community: an Israeli – North American Dialogue”;

1987 – Université de Nancy, Departement d’Études Britanniques et Nord-Americaines, Conference of Centre de Recherches pour L’Étude des Sociétés Américaines et Britanniques, Nancy, Francja;

1986 – Freie Universität Berlin (West), John F. Kennedy-Institut. Abteilung für Kultur und Sprache Seminar.