Gloger Prize for prof. Agnieszka Matusiak
The Jury of the Zygmunt Gloger Competition, chaired by professor Tadeusz Panecki, awarded a prize and medal in this year’s XXXIII edition for “significant contribution to popularising Eastern Slavic culture and building Polish-Ukrainian cooperation” to prof. Agnieszka Matusiak of the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Wrocław. The prize is awarded by the Stanisław Zagórski Press Association “Stopka” in Łomża in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the National Centre for Culture.
Agnieszka Matusiak – literary scholar, Slavist, professor of humanities. She has worked at the Institute of Slavic Studies since 1998. From 2008 to 2018, she headed the Department of Ukrainian Studies at the Institute of Slavic Studies. From 2008 to 2013, she also worked in the Department of Ukrainian Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Since 2015, she has been the head of the Research Center for Postcolonial and Posttotalitarian Studies at the Faculty of Letters of the UWr. From 2010 to 2012, she was the president of the Association for Polish-Ukrainian Dialogue of Cultures “New Generation”, operating at the Honorary Consulate of Ukraine in Wrocław.
Her research interests include Eastern Slavic literatures and cultures, gender studies, memorial and trauma studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and Jewish history and culture in Ukraine. She is the author of over a hundred scientific publications, including monographs such as: Motyw snu w prozie starszych symbolistów rosyjskich. Fiodor Sołogub (2001), W kręgu secesji ukraińskiej. Selected Problems of the Poetics of the Works of the Writers of the “Young Muse” (Polish ed. 2006; Ukr. ed.: 2016), Химерний Яцків. Модерністський дискурс у прозі Михайла Яцкова (2010), Wyjść z milczenia. Decolonial struggles of 21st century Ukrainian culture and literature with post-totalitarian trauma (2018; ukr. ed. 2020), . Editor-in-chief of magazines: “Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia” (Wrocław) and “Pomiędzy. Polonistyno-Ukrainoznawcze Studia Naukowe” (Lwów-Kijów-Wrocław), as well as the publishing series “Wrocławskie Studia nad Posttotalitarizmy” (Wydawnictwo UWr). He also participates in the Scientific Committees and International Programme Boards of journals such as: „Porównania” (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), “Kyiv-Mohyla Arts and Humanities” (National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Ukraine), “Проблеми сучасного літературознавства” (Odessa I.I.Mechnikov National University), “Університетські гуманітарні студії; I. Mechnikova in Odessa, Ukraine), “Університетські гуманітарні студії; “Етнічна історія народів Європи” (Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev, Ukraine) and others. She is also a member of international scientific bodies, including: Programme Council of the Holocaust Memorial Centre “Babi Jar” in Kiev (Ukraine); Programme Council of the Scientific Centre for the Study of the 60s Generation at the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kiev; International Programme Council and International Jury of the Ivan Franko Foundation Science Prize, Kiev (Ukraine).
She has been a guest lecturer at universities in the USA, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ukraine. Fellow at Harvard University, where her project at the Ukrainian Research Institute was The Discourse of Masculinity in Ukrainian Literature of the 20th and 21st century.
In 2021, she co-coordinated the Sound of Safe Touch project with Ukrainian director Olena Apczel. Touch. Safety. Ukrainian Dramaturgy. An interactive audio-performance about the transformation of human existence and worldview during a pandemic. The project was carried out in cooperation with the Ukrainian Institute in Kiev and the City of Wrocław under the Honorary Patronage of the Mayor of Wrocław, Jacek Sutryk.
Currently, as part of the inter-university research network he has established, the Laboratory for Transcultural Studies in Post-Communist European Drama and Theatre, he directs the project And Again the Prologue? Post-Traumatic Drama and Theatre in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in the Light of Systemic Transformation (1989/1991-2021), realised in cooperation with the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw.
She is also the lead performer in an international research project on Local Knowledge in theatre and performance of the last two decades in the face of epistemic injustice. A Polish and Ukrainian perspective. The project is carried out under the auspices of the Laboratory for the Study of Knowledge-Creative Practices of Local Cultures of the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
In 2022, she was invited to join the methodological team under the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in Kiev as an international expert for the development of a pilot curriculum in drama and theatre history for Ukrainian schools of secondary level.
