Anna CHROMIK, PhD

Position:

• Assistant professor.

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• Member of Quality Assurance Committee.

Degrees:

• 2010; PhD in Literary Studies;
  University of Silesia;
  Thesis: “Disruptive Fluidity: The Modern Discourse of Body Boundaries”;
  Supervisor: Professor Wojciech H. Kalaga, University of Silesia / PAN;
  Reviewers: Professor Zbigniew Białas, University of Silesia; Professor Mirosława Buchholtz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; Funding by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education Grant.

• 2004; MA in English Culture and Literature;
  University of Silesia;
  Thesis: “Woman and the Vampire: On Blurring Borders”;
  Supervisor: Professor Wojciech H. Kalaga, University of Silesia / PAN.

Main field of research:

• Literature studies.

Department:

• Department of English Literatures

Research Interests:

• theories of corporealised subjectivity,
• relations between trauma, resistance and vulnerability in literature, art and theory,
• relations between the symbolic and the semiotic in poetry and art,
• feminist discourses of maternity in theory and art.

Teaching:

• Academic Writing,
• Popcultural Texts,
• Academic Project 2,
• Introduction to Literary Studies,
• Translation of art texts (Art Department; Contemporary Art Programme),
• Cultural Identity (Art Department; Contemporary Art Programme).

Membership in Academic Societies:

• Fulbright Alumnus ((Fulbright Slavic Award; Fulbright Visiting Scholar at School of Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics, University of Illinois, Chicago, 2020).

Membership of Boards of Scholarly Journals:

• Head of the Programme Council of TA Foundation (promotion of young female artists).

Selected visiting lectures:

• 2020; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA; 2 guest lectures “Ashes and close-ups. Material traces of the Shoah in photography”;
• 2019; Jagiellonian University, Kraków; guest lecture “Thought of the hand. Painting and trauma in Bracha Ettinger’s art” as part of the Critical Theory of Culture Course;
• 2016; Global Center for Advanced Studies, International; guest lecture “Revolting Bodies: Physiological Strategies of Feminist Resistance in Poland Today” as part of the Epistemology & Humanities I seminar;
• 2014; York St John University, York, UK; guest lecture and two seminars “Place, Map and Knowledge in Olga Tokarczuk’s fiction” as part of the Contemporary Writing course;
• 2011 – 2013; University of Lille 3, France, Department of English; Doctoral seminar on the construction of the body, private space and subjectivity (invited); Cultural Communication – guest lectures and seminars (2011 and 2013) as part of the Erasmus LLP exchange program.

Main Publications:

Monographs:

• 2018; “Bracha L. Ettinger: Eurydice-Pieta”, red. Anna Chromik. Katowice: Muzeum Śląskie,
• 2012; “Disruptive Fluidity. The Poetics of the Pop-Cogito”. Frankfurt am Main, New York: Peter Lang Verlag

Articles:

• 2021; “Popioły i zbliżenia. Materialność śladów Zagłady w fotografii”, in: Er(r)go Teoria-Literatura-Kultura No 1 (2021).
• 2019; “Dotyk, rytm i współświadczenie : o afektywnym potencjale materialności i taktylności w twórczości Brachy Ettinger”, in: Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej;
• 2018; “Eurydice and Pieta, Fire and Water, Rescue and Evacuation: Traces of Trauma in Bracha L. Ettinger’s Art”, in: Bracha L. Ettinger, Eurydice – Pieta, ed. Anna Chromik. Katowice; Muzeum Śląskie;
• 2017; „Cielesna przyjemność formy: o rewolucyjnym języku poetyckim awangardy”, in: Anarchia i nowa sztuka. 100-lecie dadaizmu, ed. Małgorzata Kaźmierczak. Szczecin: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Malarstwa i Nowych Mediów Akademii Sztuki w Szczecinie,
• 2014; “Tender Fluid Machines”, in: Bodily Fluids. InterAlia. A Journal of Queer Studies #9 (2014) guest-edited by Kamillea Aghtan, Michael O’Rourke and Karin Sellberg, pp. 239-253.