KŁOSIŃSKI Krzysztof

Born on 21 March 1951 in Krakow; son of Juliusz Kłosiński and Zofia, née Smolińska. He attended the Jan Sobieski Grammar School (No. II) in Krakow between 1964 and 1968, when he completed his advanced secondary education. From 1968 he studied Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University (UJ) in Krakow. After graduating with a master's degree, he worked from 1973 as an assistant at the Institute of Polish Literature and Culture (which in 1991 became the Institute of the Study of Polish Literature – INoLP and was named after Ireneusz Opacki in 2005) at the University of Silesia (UŚ) in Katowice. He made his debut in 1975 with an article in "Ruch Literacki" (no. 1), Problematyka czasu w powieści historycznej XIX wieku (Temporality in Nineteenth-Century Historical Novels), followed by a review of M. Głowiński's Gry powieściowe (Novel Games) in "Pamiętnik Literacki" (no. 2). He defended his doctoral thesis at UŚ in 1985. It was titled Proza Romana Jaworskiego na tle przemian 1910–1925 (Roman Jaworski's Prose in the Context of the Changes between 1910 and 1925) and was supervised by Prof. Tadeusz Bujnicki. He was awarded a habilitation degree from UŚ in 1991 for his study Mimesis w chłopskich powieściach Orzeszkowej (Mimesis in Orzeszkowa's Peasant Novels). Between 1992 and 1996, he served as deputy director of INoLP. He contributed essays and reviews in literary theory and nineteehth and twentieth-century literary history to journals including "Pamiętnik Literacki" (1975–76; 1985–87, 1999), "Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach" (from 1978), "Teksty Drugie" (1998–2007, 2011, 2015), and "Śląsk" (intermittently 1996–2004). In 2002, he was made state-appointed professor. He presented a programme on classical music in 1995 on the Silesian radio broadcaster Top. Together with Kazimiera Szczuka, he presented the weekly programme Wydanie drugie poprawione (Revised Second Edition) on the private television station TVN between 2004 and 2009. It discussed contemporary Polish literature. For his work on this programme he received the 2007 Polish Book Institute (PIK) prize Pikowy Laur at the Krakow Book Fair for the best presentation of books in electronic media formats. Between 2005 and 2013, he was a lecturer at the Institute of Culture and Communication at the Warsaw University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS). In 2007, he was appointed chair of the Polish Academy of Sciences' Committee on Literary Studies (KNoL PAN). From 2008 he was a member of the Programme Council of Polish Radio in Katowice, while also serving from 2008 until 2016 as director of INoLP at UŚ in Katowice. At the same time, he was also head of the Department of Post-Romantic Literature at INoLP. In 2015, he won the University of Silesia Pro Scientia et Arte Prize for his outstanding achievements in teaching and research. He received the Bronze Cross of Merit in 2002. In 1977, he married the UŚ professor and literary historian Krystyna, née Ślizankiewicz. They have a son, Michał (b. 1986). He lives in Sosnowiec.