DZIADEK Adam

Born on 1 July 1965 in Sosnowiec where he attended the Bolesław Prus Grammar School no. III. He completed his advanced secondary education there in 1984 and subsequently studied Polish philology at the University of Silesia (UŚ), graduating with a master's degree in 1991. He was then employed as a research assistant at the Department of Literary Theory at the Institute of the Study of Polish Literature – INoLP (which from 2005 was named after Ireneusz Opacki and in 2019 became the Institute of Literary Studies) at UŚ. In 1992, he started publishing his first pieces of literary criticism. He published a review of Jacek Bierezin's volume of poetry Tyle rzeczy (So many things). The review, titled Syzyf jest szczęśliwy (Sisyphus is pleased) appeared in "Kresy" no. 11. His review of Józef Olejniczak's book Arkadia i małe ojczyzny. Vincenz, Stempowski, Wittlin, Miłosz (Arcadia and Small Homelands) appeared in "Postscriptum" the same year (issue no. 3), while his review of Aleksander Wat's collected poems (Poezje zebrane, Krakow, 1992), titled „Ja, Aleksander Wat” ('I, Aleksander Wat') appeared in "Zeszyty Literackie" (no. 40). His research focused primarily on literary theory, comparative literature, genre criticism, the history of twentieth-century literature, and the translation of scholarly texts from French, as well as, in later years, men's studies. His first academic article, Interpretant – zarys zagadnienia (The interpretant: An outline of a problem) appeared in 1993 in the journal "Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Śląskiego" (no. 1376). He was awarded a French government grant in 1995 and 1999. In 1998, he received a doctorate for his dissertation Rytm i podmiot wypowiedzi poetyckiej w liryce Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza i Aleksandra Wata (Rhythm and the subject of poetic expression in the lyrical poetry of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Aleksander Wat). He was supervised by Prof. Krzysztof Kłosiński. He was subsequently appointed lecturer. He was a visiting lecturer at institutions including Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris, Université de Fribourg in Switzerland, and Hankuk University in Seoul. He was awarded funding by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) to conduct research in the Aleksander Wat archive at Yale University's Beinecke Library in 2009. He remained active as a literary critic, publishing articles and essays, as well as translations from French and English, in periodicals including "Opcje" (1993, 1995, 1997, 2005, and 2012), "Zeszyty Literackie" (1994, 1997, 2007, 2009, and 2014-15), "FA-art" (1996, 1999, and 2011), "Śląsk" (1997), "Literatura na Świecie" (1998), "Pamiętnik Literacki" (1999, 2001, 2003, 2006-07, 2012-13, 2019, and 2020), "Er(r)go" (2000), "Teksty Drugie" (2000-06, 2008-11, 2014-15, 2017, and 2020), "Arkusz" (2001-02), "Pogranicza" (2002, 2005, and 2011), "Przestrzenie Teorii" (2002, and 2004), "Ruch Literacki" (2006), "Przegląd Kulturoznawczy" (2009), "Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne" (2010), "Wielogłos" (2010 and 2014), "Gościniec Sztuki" (2011), "Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach" (2013), "Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne" (2015), "Znak" (2015), "Roczniki Humanistyczne" (2015), "Przegląd Humanistyczny" (2016), "Forum Poetyki" (2019, 2020, and 2021), and "Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich" (2020). He served as deputy director of INoLP from 2001 to 2016. From 2002 until 2010, he was curator of the Thermerson Archive in Poland. From 2004 to 2019, he worked at the Department of Historical Poetics and the Art of Interpretation at INoLP at UŚ. He was awarded a habilitation degree from UŚ in 2005 for his study Obrazy i wiersze. Z zagadnień interferencji sztuk w polskiej poezji współczesnej (Images and Poems: On the interconnection of art forms in contemporary Polish poetry). In 2007, he was appointed to the editorial committee of the journal "Pamiętnik Literacki", while from 2011 until 2017 he was editor-in-chief of the biannual Polish studies journal "Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne". In 2015, he was appointed to the scientific council of "Forum Poetyki", a journal published at UAM. In 2011, he was made state-appointed professor in humanities. He conducted various research projects including Notatniki Aleksandra Wata – spiralna nielinearność zapisu (Aleksander Wat's notebooks: The spiral non-linearity of records) as part of a grant from the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities (2011-15), Projekt krytyki somatycznej (Towards somatic criticism) funded by the Opus 1 of the Polish National Science Centre (NCN, 2011-14), and Męskość w literaturze i kulturze polskiej od XIX wieku do współczesności (Masculinity in Polish literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present) as part of an NCN grant (2013-18). From 2012 to 2016, he was a member of the Committee on Polish Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and then from 2016 to 2020 of the Committee on Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (KNoL PAN). He was appointed to the Scientific Council of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2015. He served as vice dean for research development of the Faculty of Philology (later the Faculty of Humanities) from 2016 to 2020, before being appointed dean of the Faculty of Humanities at UŚ in 2020. He served on the UŚ Council from 2019 to 2020 before being elected for a second term, running from 2021 to 2024. He lives in Katowice.