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Ewa Wampuszyc

Lecturer

Ewa Wampuszyc completed her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan in 2004.

Her areas of interest and expertise include 19th century Polish and Russian prose, contemporary Polish literature and culture, and teaching Polish and Russian as a foreign language.

Her current research focuses on the symbolic and economic value of capital in the literature and journalism of late 19th century Poland and Russia.

Fall 2009 Courses

EUH 3931/EUS 3110/PLT 3564:
Modern Polish Culture and Society

Course Syllabus

This course introduces and examines central issues in Polish culture and society of the last one hundred years. During this period, stretching from the outbreak of anti-czarist strikes and socialist terrorism in Russian-ruled Poland in 1905 to the country's entry into the European Union in 2004, Poles have lived under no less than eight different political regimes. The course will place an emphasis on the peculiar dialectic of continuity and change that this political history has impressed on Polish culture and society.

As parliamentary democracy, war, and authoritarianisms and totalitarianisms of both the right and of the left have alternated variously across the political landscape, how has culture in Poland worked to fashion stable national, ethnic, and gender identities? We will track the changing shape of key debates over time - nation vs. state; intellectuals and political radicalism; definitions of resistance to and collaboration with Nazism and communism; national minorities and nationalism; Polish-Jewish relations; Catholicism and the question of civil society; and gender, national identity, and popular culture.

And as Poland adopts its latest national and geopolitical guise as new EU member state, how does the legacy of its "carousel" history involve it in contradictions and clashes with its West European partners on such varied issues as minority identities, relations between church and state, and the war on terrorism? The course poses and frames these questions through readings of original documents, materials drawn from social and cultural history, essays, literature, and the screening of key films.

POL 2200: Intermediate Polish 1

Course Syllabus

This class is designed for students who have either completed POL 1131 or who place into Intermediate Polish I through a written and oral placement test. The goal of the course is to revisit and delve deeper into the grammar covered in introductory level Polish, build your vocabulary, and further develop and improve your speaking, reading, writing and listening skills.

Other Courses

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Contact

Ewa Wampuszyc
University of Florida
3326B Turlington Hall
P.O. Box 117342
Gainesville, FL 32611

(352) 392-8902 x203
ewamp@ufl.edu

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