CURRICULUM VITAE
Jolanta W. Wawrzycka, Ph.D.
Professor of English, Department of English, Radford University, Radford, VA 24142
Home: (540) 639 1804  Office: (540) 831 5176 (o) E-mail: jolanta@radford.edu
Website: www.radford.edu/~jolanta

EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in English, 1987, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Major: Modern British Literature. Minors: Literary Theory and Criticism; Drama/Theatre. Written and oral exams in all three areas. Dissertation: "The Labyrinth Patterns in the Language of Fiction: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and José Donoso's El obsceno pàjaro de la noche in Terms of Hermeneutic Phenomenology." Directed by Richard F. Peterson and Alan M. Cohn.

MA in English Philology, 1980, University of Wroclaw, Poland (corresponding to degrees in English, Linguistics, and ESL). Course work: four years of history of English and American Lit;. Literary theory and criticism; Theory of literary genres; Practical English (four years of writing and conversatorium classes); History of England and of the United States; Linguistics; History of the English language: Old- and Middle-English; Descriptive, comparative, and transformational grammar; Translation; Logic; Philosophy; Political Science; Pedagogy (including teaching practicum); French; Latin.
MA Thesis: "Literary Criticism of John Galsworthy."

LANGUAGE COMPETENCY:
Polish, English, Russian, French, Spanish, some Portuguese, Latin and Italian (in perpetual progress: Greek).

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Modern British and Irish Literature; Ancient and Modern literary Theory and Criticism; World Literature; Translation Studies; Linguistics; Cultural Studies.

OTHER AREAS OF RESEARCH:
Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; History; Semiotics; Colonialism; Feminism; Latin-American and Slavic Literature; Phenomenology; Hermeneutics.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

	1987-present: Professor of English, Radford University: teaching British and World literature, literary theory and criticism, freshman composition.
	1990 Russian Instructor for Radva Corporation in Radford, Virginia.
	1985-87 Lecturer, Department of English, Southern Illinois University.
	1982-85 Teaching Asst., SIU-Carbondale; teaching freshman comp. and technical writing.
	1983-84 Research Asst., SIU-Carbondale; translation; bibliographical research.
	1984 Visiting Scholar, World Institute of Phenomenology, Boston; Research in the Harvard University Library.
	1982-84 Writing Tutor, Center for Basic Skills; Writing Center, SIU-Carbondale.
	Fall 1981 Research Fellow, Department of Theatre, SIU-Carbondale; translation of plays by Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) from Polish into English.
	1980-81 Translator, International Computing Medical Center, Wrocław, Poland.
	1979-80 Translator-Interpreter, Institute of Chemistry, U. of Wrocław, Poland; translator of scientific research.
	1977-80 "Teaching English through Theater": THE WHY NOT Theater of the University of Wrocław, Poland; English literature on stage; didactic tours around Poland; participation in the International Student Theatre Festival, Vienna, 1979.
	1975 Teacher of English, The 1st High School, Jelenia Góra, Poland.

GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS:

	Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology at the 18th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning; Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, April 2007
	Nominee: the Ernest L. Boyer International Award for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology. April 2007.
	CAS Dean's Funds Award for translation projects to be published in Poland, Spring 2004.
	CAS Dean's Funds Award in connection with "European Literary Trails" Program Spring 2003.
	RU Grant for "Innovative Teaching," developing "Electronic Course Pack" for Study Abroad Prog, "European Literary Trails," Spring 2002.
	Administrator of  the RU Foundation Technology Grant for Department of English, 1998-2000.
	"Author of the Month" at the University Bookstore, January 1998.
	RU Faculty Professional Development Leave, Fall 1996.
	RU Graduate School Summer Research Grant; Joyce Foundation-Zurich, Switzerland, Summer 1994.
	RU Graduate School Summer Research Grant; Joyce Foundation-Zurich, Switzerland, Summer 1993.
	RU Faculty Development Grant; Joyce Foundation-Zurich, Switzerland, Summer 1992.
	National Endowment for the Humanities; Literary Translation Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, Summer 1989.
	RU Foundation Grant; 11th International James Joyce Symposium, Venice, Italy, Summer 1988.
	School of Criticism & Theory; Northwestern University Fellowship, Summer 1985.
	Dissertation Research Award, Southern Illinois University, 1985.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSIGNMENTS:

	Modern Language Association, 1984-
	Society of Phenomenology and Literature, 1989-
	International Zurich James Joyce Foundation, 1987-
	Italian James Joyce Foundation, 2006 -
	Friends of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, 1992-1995
	American Conference for Irish Studies, 1991-1994
	ALTA (American Literary Translators' Association), 1989-1992
	Midwest Modern Language Association, 1985-1990
	Chairperson of Slavic Division of Midwest MLA, 1987-1988

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

	International James Joyce in Austin, TX, June 2007: Two Panels: Presentation: "'Nice Name He Has' In Translation;" Chair and Organizer of Panel on "Translation-in-Joyce-in-Translation, Steve Yao, Respondent.
	20th-Century Literature Conference at Louisville, KY, February 2007. Chair of panel organized on behalf of the International James Joyce Foundation,
	The Zurich James Joyce Foundation, August 2006 Workshop: "Cinematographic Joyce."

20th International James Joyce Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, June 2006. Presentation: Joyce in/and Translation."  Rosa Maria Bosinelli, chair.

	The Zurich James Joyce Foundation, August 2005 Workshop: "Poly-Optical Cyclopes."
	20th-Century Literature Conference at Louisville, KY, February 2005. Chair of panel organized on behalf of the International James Joyce Foundation, “Joyce-Casting: The Facets of Joycean Scholarship.” Presenter of  "The Joyce of Pedagogy: Multimedia(l) Scholarship."
	19th International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 2004. Presentation: Panel on Translating Joyce: "Trans-Semantification: The  Textual Implications of Re-Languaging Joyce." Fritz Senn and Rosa Maria Bosinelli, co-chairs.
	Johannesburg, South Africa: Workshop on Technology and Creativity in the Humanities Classroom: Packaging Multimedia Research, Feb. 2004
	Post-Industrial Joyce: James Joyce Conference, Tulsa, OK, June 16-20,2003. Media Presentation at the Panel on "Translation Issues: A Homage to the James Joyce Quarterly." Rosa Maria Bosinelli, Chair.
	Sarasota Institute for Lifetime Learning; invitational multimedia lecture on Women Nobel Prize Laureates, Sarasota, Feb.11, 2003.
	Manatee Community College, Sarasota. Workshop on Technology in the Humanities' Classroom,  Feb. 12, 2003.
	The Zurich James Joyce Foundation, August 2002 Workshop: "Translation as Alienation: the Polish Joyce."
	18th International James Joyce Symposium, Trieste, Italy, June 2002. Presentation: Panel on Joyce in Multimedia, "Saints, Sages and the Wild Geese: Packaging of Ireland for the Triestines." Suzette Henke, chair.
	Sarasota James Joyce Conference "JJ on the Bay, " University of South Florida, February 2002. Multimedia Presentation: "Digital Joyce."
	University College, Dublin, Lecturer at the James Joyce Summer School, July 2001.
	Miami Joyce Conference, "2001: A Joyce Odyssey." University of Miami, Coral Gables, February 2001. Multimedia PowerPoint Presentation: "The Joyce of  Space; Technology in the Modernist Curriculum."
	The 50th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Radford, Va., October 2000: Multimedia PowerPoint on "Gender of Modernism: Women of the Left Bank."
	17th International James Joyce Symposium, Goldsmiths College, University of London, England, June 2000. 2 Presentations: the Joyce/Gender studies panel;  Paper on "European Receptions of Joyce" session: "Joyce en slave/Joyce enclave: Joyce's Polish Voices." Geert Lernout, chair.
	Manatee Community College, Sarasota, April 6-7, 2000: Two Workshops on the Uses of Technology in the Humanities' Classroom.
	Miami Joyce Conference "Joyce/Culture," University of Miami, February 2000: "The Culture of Mourning."
	The 48th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va., October 8-10 1998:  "Teaching Nobel Prize Literature: Focus on Women Laureates."
	16th International James Joyce Symposium in Rome, Italy, June 1998:  "Rhetorica ad Hibernium: the Joyce of Rhetoric."
	Miami Joyce Conference, University of Miami, Coral Gables, February 1998. "Reading Site/Colonizing Insight."
	The Zurich James Joyce Foundation Colloquy, Zurich, Switzerland,  January 1998: "On Being a Joycean."
	Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada, December 1997: Chair of "Variations on Joyce;" paper "Apotheosis, Metaphor, and Death: Houston's The Dead Again."
	Miami Joyce Conference "Joyce Through the Ages," University of Miami, February 1997: "Joycean Cataloguing: Historical/Rhetorical Transformations."
	The Zurich James Joyce Foundation, August 1995 Workshop: "Athene in Homer's The Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses."
	The Zurich James Joyce Foundation, August 1994 Workshop: "Rhetorical Mnemotechnics: the Shaping of Stephen's Memory."
	14th International James Joyce Symposium, Seville, Spain, June 1994: "'Traduced to jinglish janglage': Joyce in Polish."
	University of Pereslavl, Russia, April 1994: two lectures on "Teaching World Literature at Radford University."
	International Conference on Roland Barthes, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 1994: "Photomorpheme: Semiotisizing in La chambre claire."
	Miami Joyce Conference "Joycean Transformations," University. of Miami, February 1994: "Reading Joyce in Translation."
	The Zurich James Joyce Foundation, August 1993 Workshop: "Repetition and Negation in Joyce's Dubliners."
	Eckert College, Sarasota, Florida, February 1993, Guest Speaker on "Colonialism in the Works of Forster and Conrad."
	Miami Joyce Conference "Biography," University. of Miami, February 1993: "Joyce in Nora's View."
	National Conference for Irish Studies, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, October 1992: "Joyce's Voice in Translation: the Polish Dubliners."
	XVII Annual Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va., September 1992: "Roman Ingarden's Theory of Translation."
	The Zurich James Joyce Foundation, August 1992 Workshop: "The Language of Dreams in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake."
	13th International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June, 1992: Coordinator and Chair: Living Book Review Panel: Suzette Henke's James Joyce and the Politics of Desire. Two papers: "Finnegans Wake and Sexuality" and "Joyce and Cinema."
	Miami Joyce Conference: "Popular Culture," University. of Miami, February 1992: "Colloquialisms in the Polish Translation Dubliners."
	XVI Annual Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. VA, September 1991: "James Joyce and Cinematography of the 20th-Century."
	Miami Joyce Conference: "Comedy in Joyce," University. of Miami, February 1991: "The P/Funny in Finnegans Wake."
	Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, November 1991: Coordinator and Chair of Roundtable: "Canon and Corporate Classroom."
	Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Faculty Colloquy Series, Fall 1990: "Kitsch as a Cultural Construct: Foucault and Kundera."
	12th International James Joyce Symposium, Monaco, June 1990 Coordinator and Chair of Panel on "Gender and Joyce" (in absentia).
	Miami Joyce Conference: "Joyce and Gender," University of Miami, February 1990: Academic Program Coordinator.
	Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, November 1989. Special Session on "Teaching Challenged Canon: "Decentering the Noncenter."
	The Berkeley "Wake" Conference, University. of California, Berkeley, July 1989. Two papers: "Language Patterns in Finnegans Wake" and "Medieval Catalogues in the Wake." Fritz Senn, Chair.
	National Endowment for the Humanities; Institute of Translation, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 1989. "Genesis of Ingarden's Translation Theory."
	James Joyce National Conference, Philadelphia, June 1989. "Tradition of Enumeratio in Joyce's Texts." Fritz Senn, Chair.
	14th Convention of International Society for Phenomenology and Literature, Boston, Mass. April 1989. "The Art of Translation: Roman Ingarden."
	The 20th-Century Literature Conference at Louisville, KY, 1989; "The Concept of Responsibility in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being."
	Modern Language Association, New Orleans, December 1988: "Noetic and Noematic Intentionality: Phenomenological Reading of José Donoso's El obsceno pàjaro de la noche."
	Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, November 1988: "Hermeneutics: The Science of Literary Interpretation," and "Betrayal in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being."
	11th International James Joyce Symposium, Venice, June 1988: "Finnegans Wake as a Cave."
	Comparative Literature Symposium, The University of Tulsa, OK, April 1988: "Finnegans Wake: the Alliance of Logo- and Phonocentrism."
	Miami Joyce Conference: "Language in Joyce," University of Miami, February 1988: "Notes on Language and Speech in Finnegans Wake."
	Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1987; Leader of Special Session: "Bruno Schulz: The Dimensions of Otherness;" with participation of 1980 Nobel Prize Laureate, Czeslaw Milosz. Presentation: "Poetics and Prosody of Prose in Bruno Schulz."
	Midwest Modern Language Association, Columbus, OH, November 1987; "Heidegger and Donoso: Historicity and Dasein."
	James Joyce National Conference, Milwaukee, WI, June 1987: "Finnegans Wake: Logocentrism or Phonocentrism?"; Coordinator of Session "Joyce Politicus" and presenter of "Finnegans Wake as theoria."
	The 20th-Century Literature Conference at Louisville, KY, 1987. "El obsceno pàjaro de la noche in Terms of Heidegger's Historicity."
	Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, November 1986. "Bruno Schulz: The Fencing Master of Imagination."

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

	Director of "European Literary Trails" Study Abroad Program at Radford University.
	Chair, Honors Academy Advisory Board
	Faculty Senate Delegate
	Technology Grant Administrator, Department of English
	Member of Information Technology Resources Committee
	Presenter at Center for Gender Studies Panel
	Presenter at "Our Turn" Sessions for Faculty Development Center
	Sponsor of Students' Sessions at the "Undergraduate Forum"
	The Graduate Council Member
	Graduate Council Academic Affairs Committee
	New College of Global Studies Planning Committee
	The New College of Global Studies Design Team (International Programs)
	Chair, Colloquy Committee, Department of English
	Member of Graduate Committee, Department of English
	Member of Personnel Committee, Department of English
	Director and Reader of MA Theses

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

	Reader of book manuscripts for University Presses
	Outside Evaluator of MA Theses
	Polish and Russian Language Consultant/Translator

PUBLICATIONS:

	Books : Gender in Joyce. Jolanta W. Wawrzycka and Marlena G. Corcoran, eds. University Press of Florida, 1997.
	Chapters in Books: “'Latin me that, my trinity scholard’: Joyce in the Context of Translation."  Forthcoming in Joyce in Context, Cambridge University Press, Fall 2007. "Joyce en slave/Joyce Enclave: The Joyce of Słomczyński." In Twenty-First Joyce, University Press, Florida, 2004, pp. 137-156. "The Reception of James Joyce in Poland." In The Reception of James Joyce in Europe, Thoemmes Continuum, London-New York, 2004, pp. 219-229. "Text at the Crossroads: Multilingual Transformations of James Joyce's Dubliners." In Re-Joycing: New Readings of Dubliners, The University Press of Kentucky, 1998, pp. 69-84. "Photomorpheme: Semiotisizing in Camera Lucida" In Writing the Image After Roland Barthes. Ed. Jean-Michel Rabaté. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. "Transcultural Criticism: 'jingish janglage' Joyce in Polish." In Festschrift Fritz Senn. Liliput Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1997. "Betrayal as a Flight from Kitsch." In Milan Kundera and the Novel: Critical Essays. Aron Aji, ed. Garland Press, 1992.
	Articles in Periodicals: “Tell Us In Plain Words”: Textual Implications of Re-Languaging Joyce. In “Joyce in/and Translation”: Italian Joyce Studies Vol. 10, pp. 29-42. “Translations: Polish Joycean Features in the James Joyce Quarterly – A Selective Retrospective.” James Joyce Quarterly Vol.41, no. 1-2 "Krytyka międzykultutowa: Joyce'owski "dzięzyk dziangielski" po polsku." Przekładaniec: Archipelag północno-europejski Vol. 13-14, no. 2/2004 - 1/2005, pp. 143-154. [The Translator(ator): Northern-European Archipelago].  Journal of the UNESCO Institute for  Translation and Intercultural Communication Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. (Katarzyna Bazarnik's translation into Polish of "Transcultural Criticism: 'jingish janglage' Joyce in Polish," first published in Festschrift Fritz Senn. Liliput Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1997). "Translations: Polish Joycean Features in the James Joyce Quarterly—A Selective Retrospective." James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 41, no.1-2. "Tekst na rozdrożu: wielojęzyczne przeobrażenia Dublińczyków." Literatura na Świecie Vol. 7-8, (September 2004), pp. 352-371. (Bożena Kucała's translation into Polish of  "Text at the Crossroads: Multilingual Transformations of James Joyce's Dubliners," first published in Re-Joycing: New Readings of Dubliners, The University Press of Kentucky, 1998). "RU Students in Ireland." Discover Sligo Magazine, Vol. 2 (Fall 2004), Sligo, Ireland. "After Fifteen Years--Miami Joyce Adieu," James Joyce Literary Supplement, Vol. 15, no. 1, (Spring 2001). "The Spell(ing) of Dreaming," James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 30, no.4 (Summer 1993). "Joyce Between Two 'Girls': Nora and Lucia." James Joyce Literary Supplement, Vol. 7, no. 1, (Spring 1993).
	Websites  Jolanta W. Wawrzycka: Studies in English.  http://www.radford.edu/~jolanta. European Literary Trails: RU Study Abroad Program. http://www.radford.edu/~eurotrails
	Translations History of Poland in the Art of Jan Matejko, Calendar for the Year 2000. Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union. Brooklyn, New York. "Our Art: Our Passports." Polish Translation of Narrative for the educational documentary by "Jonesfilm Group, Inc." 1996. Roman Ingarden, "On Translations." Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XXXIII: 139-192. "On Responsibility." Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XXVII: 319-326. "International Bibliography of Works by Roman Ingarden." Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XXX: 225-296. With Hans H. Rudnick.
	Reviews James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 41 no. 1-2. Review of  Joyce and the Early Freudians: A Synchronic Dialogue of Texts, by Jean Kimball. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. James Joyce Literary Supplement, Vol. 16, no. 1 (Spring 2002). Review of Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal: Form Yeats  to  Joyce, Diane Stubbings, New York: Palagrave, 2001. James Joyce Broadsheet, No. 59 (June 2001): Review of Ulysses: En-Gendered Perspectives, Kimberly Devlin and Marilyn   Reizbaum, eds., Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1999. James Joyce Literary Supplement, Vol. 10, no. 2 (Spring 1998).  Review of the  Zurich James Joyce Foundation Colloquy, Zurich, Switzerland,  January 1998: "On Being a Joycean." Studies in Short Fiction. Special Short Story Theory Number. Vol. 33, no. 4 (Fall 1996).  Review of Engendered Trope in Joyce's Dubliners.  Earl Ingersoll (Carbondale: SIU Press, 1996). James Joyce Quarterly. Vol. 28, no. 4:991-998: Review of Joyce, Modernity, and Its Mediation. European Joyce Studies I, Christine van Boheemen, ed. Rodopi, 1989. The James Joyce Newsletter, No. 70 (Fall 1992). "Joycorcats Symposing in Dublin." Review of the 13th International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin, 1992. James Joyce Literary Supplement, Vol. 6, no. 2 (Fall 1992) "Almosting It 'In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis.'" Review of the 13th International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin, 1992. Journal of Modern Literature. Vol. 15, no. 3: Review of Conversations with Czesław Miłosz by Ewa Czarnecka and Aleksander Fiut. Journal of Modern Literature. Vol. 15, no. 3: Review of Czesław Miłosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric by Donald Davie.
	Interviews: “RE: Joyce!” Radio interview for “With Good Reason” [produced for the Virginia Higher Education Broadcasting Consortium by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; broadcast in partnership with public radio stations in Virginia and Washington, D.C.  Aired June 10-16, 2006].  "Exploring the Possibilities." Video Interview about technology instruction in the humanities (by "Technology in Learning," April 20, 2005) "University 100" Handbook (2002; 2003; 2004). The London Times; Educational Supplement:  "One Day to Discuss Blah Blah." Quoted by Steve Farrar in his feature on James Joyce and 2004 Bloomsday celebrations in Dublin, Ireland  (June 18, 2004). Promotional Video for RU Relations (July 18, 2000). "Technology at RU," Southwestern Times (March 2000). "Meet Your Professor," Tartan  (March 2000). Radford Graduate Catalogue (Interview/Photo: December 13, 1999). Radford: The Magazine of Radford University: "Jolanta Wawrzycka - Teacher." Cover feature by Joan Lentczner,  November 1989, pp. 18-21. Dictionaries The Unabridged Polish-English Dictionary, Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, ed. 3 vols. Hippocrene Books, Inc. New York, 1997 (Advisory Board).
	Film Narration Recordings & Documentary "Discover Ireland" (2002). VHS Educational Documentary by JonesGroup featuring Jolanta Wawrzycka's Study Abroad Program, "European Literary Trails." "Our Art: Our Passports. " Narrative about artists' exchange at the art center in Poland; educational documentary by "Jonesfilm Group, Inc." 1996. (2 versions: narration by Jolanta Wawrzycka in Polish and in English). "The President and the Scholar." Narrative about President Vaclav Havel's first-time "VISION" Award for Professor Karl Pribram; educational documentary by "Jonesfilm Group, Inc. 1999 and 2000

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