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Web of Science ID: M-6900-2018 CiênciaVitae ID: FC13-4120-24BF Wikipedia: in Polish |
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Prof. Dr. habil. Ewa A. Łukaszyk (b. 1972) is a European scholar working in global literary studies and the global history of ideas. She has built up such an encompassing area departing from her original specialisation in Romance literature and Lusophone studies, and progressively developing a complementary interest in Islamic studies.
From 1992 to 1997, she studied Romance philology at the Marie Skłodowska-Curie University in Lublin, eastern Poland, and Portuguese studies at the University of Lisbon. Later on, she also studied Comparative Literature in Lisbon and Oriental studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where she obtained, in 1999, her Ph.D. and in 2003, her habilitation in Portuguese literature. From 1997 to 2006, Ewa A. Łukaszyk was employed at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and from 2006 to 2018, at the University of Warsaw. In the atmosphere of political, social, and academic crisis after the advent of the ultra-conservative "Law and Justice" party in her country, she resigned from her tenured position, switching to the identity of itinerant, transnational scholar; nonetheless, she kept her professor title, conferred by official authorities in 2018, practically at the moment when she had already left the University of Warsaw. She is thus an unaffiliated titular professor, and a successor of generations of scholars harassed out of their universities all along Eastern Europe's turbulent history. Recently, she has been a Calouste Gulbenkian fellow in Portugal (2016-2017), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in France (2017-2018), a guest researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands (2018-2020) and, again in France, a fellow-in-residence at CY Advanced Studies (2020-2021). She maintains academic contacts and publishes in some 20 countries, contributing to both established and emergent academic communities. Ewa A. Łukaszyk is a prolific scholarly author, with seven major books, as well as approx. 300 other contributions (peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, edited volumes, reviews, translations, works-in-progress, and experimental essays), written in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Polish. The bulk of these publications is distributed among various topics and fields of research in which she has been active, maintaining a constant focus on transcultural aspects and transgressive imagination, mysticism and religious heterodoxies. She also analyses contemporary literature in a variety of comparative, trans-local, transcolonial and transcultural approaches. Her intellectual passion and the uttermost point of her research program consists in examining the human on the brink of the cultural. She explores the insufficiency, incapacity, or discomfort of complete immersion of the creative individual in culture as a semi-automatic system of meaning (re)production. At the end of the road, she has in view a theory of man not as a maker, but first of all as a transgressor of culture, striving to achieve an extracultural condition of authenticity, comfort and intimacy laying beyond the perimeter of culturally predetermined constraints and servitudes. Privately, Ewa A. Łukaszyk is a traveller, photographer, polyglot and collector of books in various languages. She is also keenly interested in art. |
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9969-0459
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1972. Born in Lublin, eastern Poland.
1992-1997. Studies in Romance languages and literature at the University Marie Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin and the University of Lisbon. 1997-2006. Teaching Portuguese & Lusophone studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. 1998-1999. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant; postgraduate studies in comparative literature at the University of Lisbon. 1999. Doctoral degree at the Jagiellonian University. 2000. Współczesna proza portugalska (1939-1999). Tematy, problemy, obsesje. 2000. Camões Institute research grant, Portugal. 2000-2001. Oriental studies at the Jagiellonian University. 2002-2003. Starting grant of the Foundation for Polish Science. 2003. Terytorium a świat. Wyobrażeniowe konfiguracje przestrzeni w literaturze portugalskiej od schyłku średniowiecza do współczesności. Habilitation degree. 2005. Pokusa pustyni. Nomadyzm jako wyjście z kryzysu współczesności w pisarstwie José Saramago. 2006-2018. Associate professor at the University of Warsaw. 2007. (ed.) Archipelagi wyobraźni. Z dziejów toposu wyspy w kręgu literatur romańskich. 2010. Historia literatur iberoamerykańskich (with Nina Pluta). 2012. Beginnings of experimentation with such concepts as multidimensional symbolic space, cultural transgression, transculture and extracultural becoming of man. 2015. Imperium i nostalgia. "Styl późny" w kulturze portugalskiej. 2016. (ed.) Nie tylko salon. Wspólnotowe formy życia literackiego. 2016-2017. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation research grant, Portugal. 2017-2018. Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, France. Research project on Adamic language. 2018. Humanistyka, która nadchodzi. W poszukiwaniu kondycji transkulturowej. 2018. (ed.) Niewłasne lektury. Od pisarstwa w języku wyuczonym do wielości kultur czytania. 2018. Official title of full professor in Poland. 2018-2020. Guest researcher at Leiden University, Netherlands (LUCIS Centre for Islam and Society). 2019. Mgławica Pessoa. Literatura portugalska od romantyzmu do współczesności. 2020-2021. CY Advanced Studies fellow-in-residence, France. Research project "Mystical legacies and cultural transgression in the contemporary Euro-Mediterranean writing".
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THEORETICAL / EXPERIMENTAL
My main theoretical endeavour focus on the hypothesis of the extracultural becoming of man. It implies a vast array of experiments, such as, among others, the reflection on the conditions of non-cultural poiesis, i.e. radically autonomous creativity, independent from culturally transmitted precedents or inspirations, but on the contrary, solidary with the non-human organic and inorganic world. I am also interested in cultural disruption, caused by great collective and individual catastrophes, as well as voluntary rupture, deliberately seeking liberation from paradigmatic procedures. Both an apocalypse, which I define precisely as a disruption of culturally transmitted procedures of coping with the world, and a deliberate rupture open space for post-cultural creativity, that may, or may not, enter the redesigned frontiers of the cultural. Concomitantly, I study the emergence of the new level of complexity at the intersection of some cultural systems under globalised conditions. Their interference and overlapping may lead to a collapse under the overcharge of contradictory exigences that those interacting cultures impose upon the individual; on the other hand, their outcome may be positive, as they may lead, once again, to the post-cultural as a new range of phenomena characterised by greatness richness and plasticity than those of the cultural. In any case, extracultural creation, as I suppose, may bring about a potential of authenticity, leading to novel, liberating exploration of the uncharted zones of human experience. The research that accompanies this theoretical endeavour develops in several directions. In the first place, I search for a new theoretical idiom suiting what would be a description of vague, abstract, or culturally inarticulate forms of human creativity. This is why I revisit postmodern authors, their experiments at the frontier of verbal, visual, and diagrammatic. I also search for new sources of conceptual inspiration, such as contemporary mathematics and encompass physics. ANALYTICAL My analytical practice and research obviously encompasses both the cultural and the extracultural. Any non-cultural glimpses of human creativity are available for analysis basically through their imperfect cultural translation. I am interested both in verbal and non-verbal modalities of creation, such as the art of Min Tanaka, a Japanese dancer and performer. Traces of extracultural insight are partially present in the cultural transmission as underground currents, surfacing from time to time as texts, images, artworks, documented practices. Thus, my everyday work consists in exploring the marginal zones of cultures where some insight into the non-cultural may occasionally be found. Such a collected insight is to nourish the theoretical reflection on the symbolical matrix encompassing both the culturally actualized and the unexploited or potential areas of meaning. I have also been active in much more traditional genres of literary criticism. As a researcher in comparative literature, I am currently focusing on transcultural writing and the creation of a non-hegemonically universal system of literary communication. I understand World Literature as a creation of the writers appealing to the non-local readership, dissolving the frontiers of literatures defined territorially (ex. as national or regional literatures) rather than diagrammatically (as charts of connections). Those writers usually transgress the frontiers of languages (ex. through translingual strategies or incrustation of native tongues into the matrix of the dominating languages in transindigenous writing). In strictly academic terms, Portuguese and Lusophone studies used to be at the core of my specialization in Romance literatures. I also dedicate a great deal of attention to the Mediterranean as an area of circulation and interference between Western and Eastern literary, dogmatic and aesthetic systems. In this area of research, I conjugate literary criticism with the history of ideas and comparative religious studies, giving special relevance to mysticism and non-orthodox religious thought. I have been working on the formation of a trans-religious postsecularism combining the spiritual inspirations liberated by the dissolution of confessional denominations. The outcomes of my dispersed research and criticism in World Literature are brought together by the idea of travel as a framing circumstance of reading, leading to a textual/visual conceptualization of meaningful landscapes. They are to be found on this website in the section "Travels & Literature" that I constantly enrich and develop. VISUAL I also engage in visual experimentation, exploring the connection between text and image, especially when it comes to the idea of insufficiency of language and the necessity of searching for more encompassing systems of communication (between such possibilities as the mystical search for the pre-lapsarian language of angels and contemporary mathematics as a way of dealing with contents and ideas that go beyond the culturally determined human experience). By which I understand using visual tools to create and convey my novel theoretical approach. I am also interested in the relations between the discourses of cultural theory and the visual arts. |
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