Anna Krakus CV May 2018
Anna Krakus
WorkUniversity of Southern California, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track Since July 2012
EducationNew York University Department of Comparative Literature:
Ph.D. May 2012, Dissertation Title: “No End in Sight: Complicated Closures in Late Communism in Poland”
M.A. Thesis Title: “Grammar as Guilt: Linguistically Murdering Marie in Büchner’s Woyzeck”
Stockholm University, Sweden
B.A. Comparative Literature
2 years of Law School
Fellowships &
Grants2017 Law and Humanities Institute funding for workshop
2015 (fall) Södertörn University, Sweden, Centre for Baltic and Eastern European Studies (CBEEES) Research Fellowship
2015 (August) Ricklundgården, Saxnäs, Sweden, Residential Research Stay
2011 Sverige-Amerika Stiftelsens Stipendium (declined)
2009 NYU GSAS Pre-dissertation Fellowship
2009 Helge Ax:son Johnson Fellowship
2007 Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship
2006 New York University Full Tuition Scholarship
2006 The J. William Fulbright Scholarship for non-U.S. Students
PublicationsBook: No End in Sight: Polish Cinema During Late Socialism
(Forthcoming with University of Pittsburgh Press, June 2018)
Articles in Peer
Reviewed Journals“But it is Our Country: Polish Republicanism and Cinema after 1976” (under review with Film History)
“An Archeology of Silence and Rumors: Michel Foucault in Poland’s Secret Police Archives” Co-authored with Cristina Vatulescu (forthcomingDiacritics)
“Death is Merely a Comma: Immortality in the Cinema and Literature of Tadeusz Konwicki” (forthcoming in The Polish Review)
“Men of Paper: Polish Lustration Law and Its Faulty? Biographical Basis,” Law and Literature, Vol 29, 2017, Issue 3
“Crime Stories: The Polish Secret Police File and the Conflation of the Legal and the Literary” in Law and Humanities, Vol. 5, No. 1 (June 2011)
Articles in Editor
Reviewed Journals
and volumes“Revealing the Past: The Formerly Secret Police Files in Poland andAndrzej Wajda’s Counter-Archive”Perspectives on Europespring, 2015 (invited article)
“I Hereby Find You Guilty of Cheating” in ed. David Cowan, Sociolegal Studies, (Palgrave MacMillan, Summer 2012) (edited volume)
Book Reviews“Joanna Niżyńska, The Kingdom of Insignificance, Miron Bialoszewskiand the Quotidian, the Queer, and the Traumatic.” Slavic and East European Journal, (61, No:1 Spring, 2017)
“Jukka Gronow, Sergey Zhuravlev, Fashion Meets Socialism: FashionIndustry in the Soviet Union after the Second World War.” Baltic Worlds,(October 2016, Vol. 9:3)
“Police Aesthetics” Samlaren (Uppsala: Uppsala Unversity Press, 2012)
“Lov og Litteratur” Samlaren, (Uppsala: Uppsala University Press, 2007)
Other“The Uses and Abuses of Censorship: An Interview with Andrzej Wajda” Cineaste (April 2014)
Guest editor. Law and Literature, Special Issue “Law and Literature Today” Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer 2011)
Works in ProgressBook:
Collecting Stories: Polish Biographies in the Shadow of the SecretPolice
Article:
“’I Will Never Say Now!’ Krzysztof Kieślowski and Kafka Before the Law” (submitting to PMLA in January 2019)
Chapter:
‘Did the Polish Secret Police Have a Sense of Humor” to be part of “Performance Art in Eastern Europe. History and Theory 1950-1990” Spector publishers, 2019. (Currently under review)
Invited Speaker
Workshop: The Secret Police and Performance Art, Kunsthalle Zürich, September, 2018
Workshop: “No End in Sight” at Recovering Forgotten History, Warsawand Krakow, July, 2017
“Polish Cinema After Forever” at Stockholm University Advanced Seminar in Polish Studies, Stockholm, November 30, 2015
“But it is Our Country: Historical Rewriting in the Polish 1970s” at CBEES Advanced Seminar, Stockholm, December 14, 2015
“Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds” at Martin Scorsese Presents, Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Bing Theater, May, 2014
Discussant on round table, “Ethnographies of the Communist Secret Police” ASEEES, Boston, 2013
“Fear of the Files: Archive as Alibi in Post-socialist Poland” Workshop/lecture, Center for Law Culture and Humanities, USC Gould Law School, September 25, 2013
Attendant at the West Coast Retreat, respondent on graduate student workshop, at the University of Washington, Law School, Seattle, September 2013
“Fear of the Files: Building an Alibi in Post-Communist Poland” Dept. of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine, November 22, 2010
Select Conference
Presentations“Meeting Wajda: A Personal and Intellectual Encounter” at Man of Cinema: Commemorating Andrzej Wajda, at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, October 2017 (organizer)
“Near Foucaults” at American Comparative Literature Association,Utrecht Netherlands, July 6-9, 2017, (panel organizer)
“Foucault’s Archives” at Association for the Study of Law, Culture, andHumanities, Stanford, California, March 31-April 1, 2017 (panel organizer)
“Nostalgia for the Present: The Socialist Past in Contemporary Polish Cinema” at “Places and Non-Places of Modernity Movement, Memory and Imagination in Contemporary Europe” at Södertörn University, Stockholm, December 3-4, 2015
“After Forever: Polish Cinema after 1989” at Kino Polskie jako kino Transnarodowe, Krakow, November 26, 2015
“Constitutional Amendments and Historical Rewriting in the Polish 1970s” on panel “Jurispolitics: Law, Legitimacy, Power” at the annual meeting for the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities, March 6, 2015, Washington DC
Chair and panelist: “Secrecy and Exposure During the Cold War and the War on Terror” at The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities (ASLCH) at the University of Virginia Law School, March 2014
“Fear of the Files: Andrzej Wajda Building an Alibi in post-Communist Poland”, ASEEES, Boston,November 2013
“Moments of Unfinalizability in Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble” American Comparative Literature Association, April 1-4, 2010 New Orleans, LA
“Law and Literature, or Law and Society?” at Hors Normes: Colloque International de Droit et Litterature, École normale supérieure, November 20-22, 2010, Paris, France
“I Hereby Find You Guilty of Cheating: How Television Judges Give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions” at Intersections of Law and Culture, October 2-4, 2009, Lugano Switzerland.
Organizer of two panels regarding “New Regions of Interest for the Field of Law and Humanities” and “New Theoretical Approaches to the Field of Law and Humanities” at the Rutgers Centennial Celebration April 23-35 2009, Rutgers, NJ
Organizer of a panel on “Law and Literature” at Codex and Code: Aesthetics, Language, and Politics at an Age of Digital Media, (NorLit) August 6-9 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
"But it is our country": (Un)finalizability of the Republic in Wajda's The Man of Marble at The Ranieri Conference on Ancient Studies, Discourses of Republicanism, November 2008, New York University, NY“
“Visualizing Power: Politics and Penalty From Premodern Europe to Contemporary United States”, at The Critical Legal Conference at Birkbeck, September 5-7, 2007, London, United Kingdom
“It's very difficult in hindsight to explain...Troublesome testimonies and the construction of meaning in silence” at Beyond Reasonable Doubt, September 2007, Cambridge, UK
Professional
AffiliationsMember of the Editorial Board “IAFOR Journal of Media Communication & Film” (2017-present)
Member of Steering committee USC Center for Law History and Culture, (2013- present)
Member of the international Research Group “Humanistic Legal Studies: On the Construction of Legal Narratives” University of Bergen, Norway (2013-present)
Officer of the Board & Treasurer, the Law and Humanities Institute, (2010-2011)
Board member of the Nordic Network for Law and Literature
Member of the American Comparative Literature Association
Member of the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies
Member of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities
LanguagesNative fluency: Swedish, English, Polish
Understand and reading: Norwegian, Danish
Reading: French, German
Beginning: Latin
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