News

Elected to the board of the North American Association of Teachers of Polish (NAATPl).

Delivered a presentation titled “Where the Devil Says Goodnight: Polish Made Easy and Fun” to a high school audience at the 2023 Languages of the World Day.

Co-organized and facilitated the March meeting of the Polish Language Table for Polish speakers at all levels.

Delivered a talk titled “The Anxious Mind: (Re)Defining Polishness in the 21st Century” (via Zoom) at the University of Washington Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Presented a paper titled “Student:ka napisał:a egzamin: A Gender‑Inclusive Writing Convention for Teaching Gender in Polish” at the 2023 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) conference.

Published the article “Poland under Martial Law in Netflix’s 1983 as a Critique of Contemporary Polish Socio-Politics: An Intertextual Analysis” in Studies in Eastern European Cinema, in which I examine Netflix’s first Polish original series 1983 as a commentary on the current sociopolitical situation in Poland.

Co-organized and facilitated the February meeting of the Polish Language Table for Polish speakers at all levels.

Welcomed another cohort of 40 students in the second edition of the Politics and Comedy in Poland interdisciplinary course on comedy as a political commentary against the country’s 20th-century history.

Created and designed the UW–Madison Polish Studies informational brochure Welcome home / Witaj w domu, available for download on the GNS+ Polish website.

Co-organized and facilitated the December meeting of the Polish Language Table for Polish speakers at all levels.

Co-organized the 2022 edition of the Madison Polish Film Festival that featured Illusion (2022, Iluzja) by Marta Minorowicz, F*cking Bornholm by Anna Kazejak, Black Sheep (2021, Czarna owca) by Aleksander Pietrzak, and Sonata (2021) by Bartosz Blaschke.

Co-organized and facilitated the November meeting of the Polish Language Table for Polish speakers at all levels.

Published a review article titled “Research Trends in Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis in the Field of Slavic Linguistics” with Renee Perelmutter in Slavia Centralis (vol. 15, no. 2, 2022).

Had students’ digital mapping final projects in the Multicultural Central Europe course featured in a GNS+ blog post titled “Students’ Mapping Projects Explore Diverse Heritage of Poland, Central Europe.”

Delivered a presentation titled “Reading Dorota Masłowska’s Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną in Polish language courses” at the North American Association of Teachers of Polish (NAATPl) online literary fair (jarmark literacki).

Welcomed a cohort of 19 students in the First Semester Polish class, a record enrollment for a Polish language course.

Published a review of Kathryn Ciancia’s On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World on the UW–Madison George L. Mosse Program in History Blog.

Delivered a presentation titled “What if the Martial Law in Poland Never Ended? Agnieszka Holland’s 1983“ for a co-organized panel “The Anniversary of Martial Law in Poland” at the UW–Madison Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA).

Had Multicultural Central Europe course featured in a GNS+ blog post about Viking presence in Poland as discussed in Dr. Leszek Gardeła’s guest lecture on Vikings in Poland, co-sponsored by the GNS+ Nordic and Slavic units.

Organized a virtual guest lecture on Vikings in Poland by Dr. Leszek Gardeła (National Museum of Denmark) with 90+ attendees, co-sponsored by the GNS+ Nordic and Slavic units, as part of the Multicultural Central Europe course.

Participated in a pedagogical webinar organized by the University of Warsaw Center for Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners Polonicum on the methodology of teaching heritage language.

Developed and started teaching a new literature and culture course titled Multicultural Central Europe, a sociocultural and sociohistorical survey of different cultures, languages, and traditions in Poland and neighboring areas.

Awarded Distinction by the North American Association of Teachers of Polish (NAATPl) for Polish-language teaching materials in the NAATPl Instructor Award for Exemplary Teaching and Learning Materials competition (topic: the educational system in Poland).