Professor Włodzimierz Bolecki

Born 13 April 1952 in Warsaw, he is a literary historian and theoretician. He graduated from the Warsaw University Institute of Polish Studies. He received his Ph.D. in 1980, qualified as associate professor in 1991, and received his professorial title in 1996. He works at the PAS Institute of Literary Research, and is head of the Historical Poetics Department there.
His interests include historical poetics, 20th century literature, Polish writers in exile, the theory and history of narrative genres, intertextuality, stylistics, reception of literary works, methodology of literary studies, and various issues related to modernism and postmodernism in literature.
He is the author of over 16 books, critical analyses for special editions of literary works, more than 50 papers published in Poland and abroad, and editor of many collective works. He has written about texts by Wacław Berent, Czesław Miłosz, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Witold Gombrowicz, Bruno Schulz, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Aleksander Wat and others. His book publications include: "Historia i biografia. O Wacławie Berencie" [History and Biography: On Wacław Berent] (1978); "Poetycki model prozy w Dwudziestoleciu Międzywojennym: Witkacy-Gombrowicz-Schulz. Studium z poetyki historycznej" (1982; 1996) [A Poetic Model of Fiction in Poland 1918-1939. Essays on Witkacy, Gombrowicz, Schulz: A Study in Historical Poetics]; "Widziałem wolność w Warszawie" [I Saw Freedom in Warsaw] (1989); "Pre-teksty i teksty" [Pre-texts and Texts] (1991;1998); "Ptasznik z Wilna. O Józefie Mackiewiczu" [A Bird-Catcher from Vilnius: On Józef Mackiewicz] (1991), "Prawdy niemiłe. Eseje" [Uncomfortable Truths: Essays] (1993); "Polowanie na postmodernistów (w Polsce)" [Hunting Postmodernists (in Poland)] (1999); "Rozmowy w Dragonei" [Conversations in Dragonea] (1997) and "Rozmowy w Neapolu" (2000) [Conversations in Naples] with Gustaw Herling-Grudziński. Member of the editorial board of "Teksty Drugie" [Second Texts] bi-monthly, issued by the PAS Institute of Literary Research.
He has given lectures at universities in many countries including Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the USA. In 2000 and 2001 he was visiting professor at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. From 1996 to 2004 he was professor at the Department of Romanticism and Modern Literature of the University of Łódź.
He belongs to several scientific and literary organizations, such as: The Association of Polish Writers, Polish PEN-Club, The Warsaw Scientific Association.Societas Scienitarium Varsoviensis, the Foundation "Polish Department at the University of Jerusalem".
More details can be found at: http://www.bolecki.aplus.pl

Address for correspondence:
Instytut Badań Literackich, Polska Akademia Nauk,
Pałac Staszica,
ul. Nowy Świat 72,
pok.128,
00-330 Warszawa, Poland
tel./fax (+48 22) 826 99 45,

e-mail: wbol@wp.pl