dr hab. Grzegorz Kość, prof. ucz.

email: grzegorz.kosc@uw.edu.pl
profile: ORCID
Room 1.027
Office hours in Spring semester 2022/23:
Tuesdays, 11:00 – 13:00 and by appointment
A 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 Answersand a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. 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, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2022). Presently, he is co-editing, with Thomas Austenfeld of Fribourg University, Switzerland, Robert Lowell in Context for Cambridge University Press.
Role at the ASC
ASC Director
Achievements
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
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Literature, Chicago, IL, Aug 2008–May 2009
Publications
Robert Lowell’s 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 Lowell’s Onionskin Aesthetic.” Papers on Language and Literature 54, no. 2 (2018): 1–17
Robert Frost’s Political Body. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014.
Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005.
Courses (selected)
Twentieth-Century American Literature—Lecture
American Monuments
Photography in American Literature
American Nationalism and Collective Memory
American Modernist Poetry
Hobbies/non-academic interests
Music