Justyna Beinek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Director of the Polish
> Language, Literature, and Culture Program
Justyna Beinek
Degree: Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001.
Dissertation: "The Album in the Age of Russian and Polish Romanticism: Memory, Nation, Authorship."
Specialties/Research Interests: 19th-20th-century Polish and Russian literature and culture, comparative literature, film and visual arts, gender studies, Romanticism, post-communist cultures, national and authorial identity, issues of memory and collecting, autobiographical writings, marginal genres, the concept of the "West"and "Europe" in Polish/Russian cultures, representation and the body.
Current project(s): A monograph on Russian and Polish Romantic albums, a monograph on the idea of the "West" in Polish literature and film, a volume of essays on Polish-German memory (co-edited with Piotr Kosicki, Princeton University), and a guidebook to Witold Gombrowicz (co-edited with Jerzy Jarzebski, Jagiellonian University, Poland, and Benjamin Paloff, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor).
Recent project(s): Polish-German Post/Memory: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics (2007)
Courses regularly taught:
- Post-Communist Polish Culture(1989-Present)
- Russian and Soviet Film
- Polish Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to 1900
- 20th-Century Polish Literature and Culture
- Polish Film
- Body/Text: Representing the Body in Polish Literature and Culture
- Intermediate and Advanced Polish
Fall 2009 course flyers:
Summer Session I 2009 course flyer:
Spring 2009 course flyers:
- P365/565 Topics in Polish Literature and Culture: Body/Text in Polish Literature & Culture
- P366/566 Polish Film
Fall 2008 course flyers:
Spring 2008 course flyers:
- P363/563 Survey of Polish Literature and Culture I: From the Middle Ages to 1900 (in translation)
- P365/565 Topics in Polish Literature and Culture: Post-Communist Polish Culture(1989-Present)
Courses taught previously:
- Pushkin and His Age
- Dostoevsky
- Russian Short Story
- Polish Poetry from "Bogurodzica" to 1900
Office number: BH 576
Office telephone: (812)855-7351
E-mail address: jbeinek@indiana.edu
Mailing address:
Justyna Beinek, Ph.D.
Indiana University
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1020 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Ballantine Hall 502
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
