Bogusław Bakuła

Bogusław Bakuła (born March 25, 1954 in Warsaw ) is a Polish literary historian and critic and translator from Ukrainian , Czech , Slovak and Hungarian . In his academic work, he mainly deals with the Polish literature of the 20th century and the literatures of Central and Eastern Europe . He is the son of the writer Leszek Bakuła .

Life

Bakuła moved with his family to Ustka in 1958 and attended grammar school there from 1969 , where he graduated from high school in 1973 . He then studied Polish Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan , where he obtained his master's degree in 1977 . During his doctoral studies from 1978 to 1980 he worked in local public transport in Slupsk . Then he worked as a Polish teacher in a primary school in Poznan. He made his debut as a literary critic in 1979 with the article Autotematyzm we współczesnej kulturze artystycznej, which appeared in the Tygodnik Kulturalny .

In the 1980s he published in Integracje, Studia Polonistyczne, Ruch Literacki and Akcent . In 1981 he was employed as an assistant at the Institute for Polish Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University. He joined Solidarność in 1980 and in 1982 was editor and spokesman for the first underground broadcasts on Radio Solidarność in the Greater Poland region. He also founded the magazine Obserwator Wielkopolski in January , which he printed underground from 1985 to 1988 in his house in Puszczykowo . To this end, he completed a two-month internship in France in 1987 . With the thesis Oblicza autotematyzmu w polskiej prozie powieściowej po roku 1956 ( doctoral supervisor : Edward Balcerzan ) he received his doctorate in 1989 and was hired as an adjunct at the Institute for Polish Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University. In the 1990s he published in the exile magazines Kontakt, Kultura and Orzeł Biały as well as in the Polish magazines Czas Kultury, Arkusz, Biuletyn Polonistyczny, Kultura Niezależna, Teksty Drugie, Życie i Myśl, Kresy and Polonistyka . He organized the international Kultura czasu przełomu congress in 1994 and 1998 in Poznan. In addition, between 1995 and 1999 he completed academic internships at the National Ivan Franko University in Lviv , the National Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev , the National University Kiev Mohyla Academy in Kiev, the Masaryk University in Brno and the National I.-I.-Mechnikov University in Odessa .

With the work Człowiek jako dzieło sztuki. Z problemów metarefleksji artystycznej he completed his habilitation in 1995 at the Adam Mickiewicz University and was appointed professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in 1996, where he became head of the comparative literature department in 1998 . In addition, he was a member of the editorial board of the cultural magazine Arkusz from 1995 to 1998 and from 2000 editor and since 2013 editor-in-chief of the almanac Slavia Occidentalis and the specialist journal Porównania . He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2003 by the Slavic University of Kiev . From 2006 to 2009 he took part in the international research project The Other Eastern Europe - the 1960s to 1980s. Dissent in politics and society, alternatives in culture. Contributions to a comparative contemporary history at the University of Bremen . Since 2009 he has been a full professor at Adam Mickiewicz University.

Publications

• Oblicza autotematyzmu. (Autorefleksyjne tendencje w polskiej prozie po roku 1956), 1991
• Człowiek jako dzieło sztuki. Z problemów metarefleksji artystycznej, 1994
• Skrzydło Dedala. Szkice, rozmowy o poezji i cultures ukraińskiej lat 50. – 90. XX wieku, 1999
• Historia i komparatystyka. Szkice o literaturze i culture Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej XX wieku, 2000
• Antylatarnik oraz inne szkice literackie i publicystyczne, 2001

Web links

• Katarzyna Batora: Bogusław Bakuła. In: Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku. July 17, 2019, accessed August 19, 2020 (Polish).