Bożena Shallcross

Professor
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Bożena Shallcross, Polish Literature
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Warsaw, 1983
Foster 402
(773) 702-7734
bshallcr@uchicago.edu

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Over the years Bozena Shallcross’ research interests have evolved from the focus on the verbal-visual interrelationship (Shadow and Form: On the Visual Imagination of Leopold Staff; Through the Poet’s Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky) through the questions of identity, in particular, those manifested in diverse modes of habitation (Framing the Polish Home: The Postwar Literary and Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self) to a discourse on objects and material culture. As she has completed a book discussing the nature of the Holocaust objects, she is working on another book-length study, tentatively entitled A Slumbering Man: An Essay on Inaction.

  • Selected Book Publications:
  • The Effect of Palimpsest, forthcoming in Peter Lang.
  • The Holocaust Object, forthcoming in 2009, Indiana University Press, refereed, 250 pages.
  • Rzeczy i Zagłada, forthcoming in 2009, Universitas, Kraków, Poland, refereed, 220 pages.
  • Polish Encounters, Russian Identity, introduction and editing with David
    Ransel (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005), 218 pp., refereed.
  • Framing the Polish Home: The Postwar Literary and Cultural Constructions
    of Hearth, Nation, and Self (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002), 360
    pp., introduction and ed., refereed.
  • Through the Poet’s Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky
    (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2002), 215 pp., refereed.
    Paperback: 2008.
  • The Other Herbert, Bożena Shallcross, introduction and ed., special
    issue of Indiana Slavic Studies, 1998:9, 219 pp.
  • Dom romantycznego artysty (The House of the Romantic Artist), (Cracow:
    Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1992), introduction, trans., ed. and
    annotations, 315 pp., refereed.
  • Cień i forma. O wyobrażni plastycznej Leopolda Staffa. (Shadow and Form.
    On the Visual Imagination of Leopold Staff), (Szczecin: Glob, 1987), 164
    pp., refereed.