dr hab. Grzegorz Kość, prof. ucz.

Associate Professor of English, Kość is the author of two critical books, Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres (Peter Lang, 2005) and Robert Frost’s Political Body (Camden House, 2014). Recently, he has contributed essays to Papers on Language and Literature, Partial Answers, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and College Literature. In 2009 Kość was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago; he has been a recipient of three OPUS research grants from the National Science Center Poland. He has co-edited, with Steven Gould Axelrod, a new edition of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, his Memoirs, for Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2022). Also he has coedited, with Thomas Austenfeld of Fribourg University, Switzerland, Robert Lowell in Context for Cambridge University Press (April 2024). Presently, he is working, with Steven Axelrod, on an edition of Robert Lowell’s Essays, also for FSG.

Role at the ASC

Head of the Committee on Research Integrity and IA Use

Head of the IAIE Faculty Evaluation Committee

Achievements

Co-President of Robert Lowell Society, with Calista McRae of the New Jersey Institute of Technology

Bishop-Lowell Studies (Penn State University Press), Editorial Board, 2021–

Vice-President of the Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS), 2017–2021

President of Robert Frost Society, 2013, 2019

Publications

From Coinage Metallurgy to Fiat Money: Robert Lowell’s Poetic Evolution,” Journal of Modern Literature 48, no. 2 (2025), 20–39. DOI: 10.2979/jml.00068

Robert Lowell in Context, coedited with Thomas Austenfeld. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

“Robert Lowell’s Still Lifes and the Market Economy of the Poetic Profession.” College Literature 50, no. 4 (Fall 2023): 463–95. DOI: 10.1353/lit.2023.a908884.

Robert Lowell, Memoirs, coedited with Steven G. Axelrod. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (August  2022)

“Robert Giroux and the Editing of Lowell’s ‘The Balanced Aquarium’,” coauthored with Steven G. Axelrod, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 36, no. 2 (2021): 415–40.

“Robert Frost’s Traitors and His Poetics of Disloyalty.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 17, no. 1 (2019): 23–47. 

Robert Frost’s Political Body. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014.

Courses (selected)

Twentieth-Century American Literature—Lecture

American Monuments

Photography in American Literature

American Nationalism and Collective Memory

American Modernist Poetry