Błażej Warkocki

Scholar

Błażej Warkocki, Associate Professor of Polish Literature and Anthropology of Literature. His research includes Polish literature, queer and gender studies, world literature, literary criticism, queer history in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, position of literature to politics.

He is a member of the AMU CAPONEU team and co-organizes events relating to the work package “Political Novel in Europe Between Democracy and Authoritarianism”, including the workshop “The Political Novel and Class Distinctions”. He contributes to the research part of the project by writing scholarly papers and text portraits, giving presentations at conferences and workshops.

Affiliation

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
School of Languages and Literatures
Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology
Department of Anthropology of Literature

Book author

• Błażej Warkocki, 2018, Pamiętnik afektów z okresu dojrzewania. Gombrowicz – queer – Sedgwick, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM i Wydawnictwo Naukowe Instytutu Badań Literackich PAN, Poznań – Warszawa. - [Błażej Warkocki, 2018, A Diary of Affects from the Time of Adolescence. Gombrowicz – queer – Sedgwick.]
• Błażej Warkocki, 2013, Różowy język. Literatura i polityka kultury na początku wieku, Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa. - [Błażej Warkocki, 2013, The Pink Tongue. Literature and Cultural Politics at the Beginning of the XXI Century]
• Błażej Warkocki, 2008, Homo niewiadomo. Polska proza wobec odmienności, Wydawnictwo Sic!, Warszawa, p. 197. - [Błażej Warkocki, 2008, The Queerness. Polish Prose in the Face of Otherness]

Books/special issues of journals edited

• Przemysław Czapliński, Maciej Leciński, Eliza Szybowicz, Błażej Warkocki, 2003, Kalendarium życia literackiego 1976 – 2000. Wydarzenia – dyskusje – bilanse. Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, p. 603.
• Błażej Warkocki, Tomasz Kaliściak, Alessandro Amenta, Dezorientacje. Antologia polskiej literatury queer, Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2021.[Błażej Warkocki, Tomasz Kaliściak, Alessandro Amenta, Deorientations. Anthology of Polish Queer Literature, Political Critique Publishing, Warsaw 2021.

 

Contact

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology
Ul. Fredry 10, Collegium Maius
61-701 Poznań, Poland

Email: warkocki@amu.edu.pl

External links

https://researchportal.amu.edu.pl/info/author/