GOSK Hanna

Born on 22 June 1952 in Warsaw; daughter of the Polish Army officer Józef Gosk, who was deported to Siberia, and the civil servant Janina, née Pożaroszczyk. After completing her advanced secondary education with distinction at the J. Dąbrowski Grammar School (No. 37) in Warsaw in 1971, she began a degree in Polish philology at the University of Warsaw (UW). During her studies, she was a member of the Student Journalists Clubs (Klub Dziennikarzy Studenckich) and published articles in the university periodicals "Zez" and "Linia". In 1975, she was an intern at the newspaper "Życie Warszawy", where her articles on social issues appeared in 1976 (likewise under the by-line H.G.). He published his first academic article, "Popioły" Stefana Żeromskiego, nowoczesna powieść historyczna przełomu wieków (Stefan Żeromski's "Ashes" as a Modern Historical Novel at the Turn of the Century) in 1975 in the journal "Przegląd Humanistyczny" (no. 7). She graduated with a distinction in 1976. Gosk then worked as an assistant at the Department of Twentieth-Century Literature at the Institute of Polish Literature (ILP) at UW. She was a doctoral student there between 1977 and 1981, when she defended her thesis < *Koncepcja prozy w krytyce literackiej kręgu „Kuźnicy” w latach 1945-1948 (Notions of Prose in the literary criticism of the Kuźnica group between 1945 and 1948). She was appointed lecturer in 1982. Her research focused on contemporary Polish literature, including prose and literary criticism written in Poland and by émigré writers, biographical literature, post-1989 literature, literary depictions of history and, in later years, anthropological and postcolonial methods. During the early part of her academic career, she published articles and book reviews in "Literatura" (1976-79), "Miesięcznik Literacki" (1982-85 and 1989), "Przegląd Humanistyczny" (1980-81) and "Poezja" (1983). In 1985/86, she worked as a Polish language tutor and lecturer in Polish culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London and at the University of Oxford. She also held month-long fellowships at the university in 1989 and 1991. She was awarded a habilitation degree in 1991 from UW for her book Wizerunek bohatera w debiutanckiej prozie polskiej przełomu 1956 roku (The Image of the Hero in Literary Debuts around 1956). Between 1995 and 2003 she regularly published reviews in "Nowe Książki", as well as reviews and articles in "Przegląd Humanistyczny" (1989-90, 1993-98, 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2010), "Potop" (1991), "Tygodnik Literacki" (1991), "Przegląd Literacki" (1993), "Ruch Literacki" (1993, 1998-99, and 2011), "Kresy" (1994-95, 1997, 1999, 2001, and 2003). She was appointed associate professor at UW in 1997. Between 1998 and 2006 she was director of the Doctoral Programme at the Faculty of Polish Studies at UW. From 1999 she also led the discussion group Colloquia minima in her home department of Twentieth Century Literature (which became the Department of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature). The group became the Centre for Literary Anthropology (Pracownia Antropologicznych Problemów Literatury) in 2006. She was visiting professor at the Polish Studies Centre at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, in 1998, 1999, and 2006. She became a member of the International Institute for Hermeneutics based at St. Mark's College, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in 2001. The same year she established a publication series at the Department of Twentieth-Century Polish Literature Seria Prac Zakładu Literatury Polskiej XX wieku ILP UW and established the annual doctoral conference that initially brought together early-career researchers from the Institute of Polish Studies at UW, before later including scholars from other Polish universities. She was made state-appointed professor in 2004, while in 2007 she became full professor at ILP at UW. She was a member of the Education Commission for two terms from 2004. She served on the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 2012 to 2016, and then became a member of the Committee on Literary Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences (KNoL PAN). She was co-director of the project Co dalej, literaturo? (What next, literature?) which was carried out by the Department of Twentieth-Century Literature at UW's Institute of Polish Literature and the Department of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature at IBL PAN between 2006 and 2008. She also led her own research project, Pominięte, przemilczane, stłumione, zatarte w narracjach XX wieku / The Effect of Palimpsest (Overlooked, omitted, suppressed and effaced in twentieth-century narratives), which was carried out at the Centre for Literary Anthropology at the Department of Twentieth-Century Literature at UW's ILP, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago and the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, University of British Columbia (2006-09). During this period she published scholarly articles in journals including "Polonistyka" (2006), "Pamiętnik Literacki" (2006), "Obóz" (2007), and "Teksty Drugie" (2008-12). Between 2008 and 2012 she chaired the Scientific Council of the Institute of Polish Literature at UW. She was a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia in 2009. The same year she established a research network, the Post-Dependence Studies Centre (Centrum Badań Dyskursów Postzależnościowych), serving as the chair of its Scientific Board and of the board of its publication series with the publishing house Universitas. In 2010, she joined the editorial board of the interdisciplinary comparative literature journal "Porównania. Czasopismo poświęcone zagadnieniom komparatystyki literackiej oraz studiom interdyscyplinarnym". Between 2011 and 2013 she was principal investigator on the research grant Polskie dyskursy postzależnościowe w kontekście porównawczym. Tematy i metodologie (Polish Post-Dependency Discourses in Comparative Perspective), which was funded by the National Science Centre (NCN). She received the Gold Cross of Merit in 2012.

She married the art conservator Piotr Krechow in 1986. They divorced in 1996. She lives in Warsaw.