BIO
Born on 3 February 1936 in Ościsłowo (Ciechanów district); daughter of the administrator Stefan Pyszniewski, and Filomena, née Smoleńska. She lived in Strzegowo (Mława district) from 1945, completing primary school and two classes of secondary school there. She moved to Ciechanów in 1950, completing her education at the Zygmunt Krasiński Grammar School in 1952. She started studying Polish philology at the University of Warsaw (UW) the same year. After graduating with a master's degree in 1956, she worked as an assistant and then senior assistant at the Chair of Literary Theory at UW to 1964. She made her debut in 1957 with the article Zagadnienia wersyfikacji w publikacjach ostatnich lat (Versification in recent publications) in "Polonistyka" (no. 2, under the name: T. Pyszniewska). In her research, she focused primarily on studying the literature and culture of the Polish Enlightenment and on questions related to literary theory. In 1960, she married Wojciech Kostkiewicz. From 1962 to 1973, she served on the Organizing Committee of the Literary Theory Conferences of Early Career Researchers in Polish Philology. She was also a member of the editorial committee of the series of edited volumes that emerged from these events. She was awarded a doctoral degree in 1963 for her dissertation Model liryki sentymentalnej w twórczości Franciszka Karpińskiego (The model of sentimental lyric poetry in the works of Franciszek Karpiński). She was supervised by Prof. Kazimierz Budzyk ↑. The same year, she was appointed lecturer at the Chair of Literary Theory at UW, remaining in the post to 1971. Between 1963 and 1972, she was also secretary of the editorial committee of Z Dziejów Form Artystycznych w Literaturze Polskiej (Aspects of the History of Artistic Forms in Polish Literature), which was published jointly by the chair and the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN). She collaborated with IBL from 1967, including from 1968 as editor of Słownik literatury polskiego Oświecenia (Dictionary of the Literature of the Polish Enlightenment) and from 1969 as a member of the publication series Studia z Okresu Oświecenia (Studies of the Enlightenment Era). Aside from teaching in Polish philology at UW – including seminars and lectures in poetics and literary theory, as well as a master's seminar (1969/70 and 1970/71) – she also taught a seminar on literary theory in 1970/71 for doctoral researchers in English and Romance studies at UW. She was awarded a habilitation degree from UW in 1971 for her study Kniaźnin jako poeta liryczny (Kniaźnin as a lyrical poet). That year, she stopped teaching at UW and took up a post at the Department of the History of the Literature of the Polish Enlightenment at IBL. She was appointed senior lecturer in 1972. That year, she started collaborating with the Teacher Training Institute in Warsaw as an academic consultant for training programmes. She also joined the Central Committee of the Olympiad in Polish Literature in Language in 1976. From 1984 to 2010, she chaired the committee before being appointed its honorary chair. She was appointed director of the Department of the History of the Literature of the Polish Enlightenment at IBL in December 1973. That year, she was also appointed co-organizer of organizing the Doctoral Programme at IBL. Between 1975 and 1979, she gave lectures at the State Theatre School (PWST) in Warsaw. In 1978, she was appointed to the editorial committees of the journals "Wiek Oświecenia" and "Pamiętnik Literacki", serving as deputy editor-in-chief of the latter from 1982. She was also appointed to the Scientific Council of IBL in 1978. Between 1979 and 1981, and again in 1987/88, she worked as an associate professor at the Slavonic studies section at the university in Clermont-Ferrand. She joined the Committee on Polish Literary Studies (KNoLP) of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1981, serving as its deputy chair for the 1987-89 term. She joined the Société Française d'Etude du XVIIIe siècle in 1983 and then the Société d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine in 1989. In 1983, she was appointed associate professor and then in 1991 full professor at IBL PAN. From 1 January 1984, she served as deputy academic director of IBL, before resigning from the post in June 1985. From 1986, she was a member of the Executive Board of the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society (serving as its president from 1998 to 2006). From 1991, she was on the editorial committee of the Society's yearbook "Rocznik". She joined the Warsaw Learned Society in 1988. She served on the Central Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles in the terms 1991-93 and 1994-96. From 1992 to 1994, she was involved in the bilateral Polish-Lithuanian commission on teaching history. During this period, she was also a member of the Council of Research Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1993/94, she was involved in the work of a working group established by the Ministry of National Education to develop the framework for a new curriculum for teaching Polish literature and language. From 1997, she was involved in efforts to establish a Faculty of Humanities at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (UKSW) in Warsaw, while from 1998 to 2010 she gave lectures there and held the Chair in Literary Theory. From 1998 to 2018 she was editor-in-chief of the Enlightenment studies yearbook "Wiek Oświecenia". She became a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU). Between 1996 and 2012, she chaired the Polish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, before serving as its honorary president. While from 2003 to 2007, she was the first deputy president of the Société Internationale d'Etude du XVIIIe siécle. She served on the Presidium of the Board of the Warsaw Learned Society from 2001 to 2004. In 2004, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn and then in 2011 from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. In 2005, she received the F. Karpiński literary prize. She retired from IBL PAN in 2007 but remained active as a researcher. She received the Knight's Cross (2003) and the Officer's Cross (2012) of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Medal of the Commission of National Education (1990), the A. Naruszewicz Medal (2007), and the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (2007). She lives in Warsaw.
Twórczość
1. Ćwiczenia z poetyki opisowej. [Współautor:] J. Sławiński. Warszawa: Państwowe Zakłady Wydawnictw Szkolnych 1961, 215 s.
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2. Model liryki sentymentalnej w twórczości Franciszka Karpińskiego. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Ossolineum 1964, 134 s. Katedra Teorii Literatury UW. Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Z Dziejów Form Artystycznych w Literaturze Polskiej, t. 2.
Zawartość
3. Czytamy utwory współczesne. Analizy. [Współautorzy:] A. Okopień-Sławińska, J. Sławiński. Warszawa: Państwowe Zakłady Wydawnictw Szkolnych 1967, 271 s.
4. Kniaźnin jako poeta liryczny. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Ossolineum 1971, 199 s. Z Dziejów Form Artystycznych w Literaturze Polskiej, t. 25.
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Zawartość
5. Klasycyzm, sentymentalizm, rokoko. Szkice o prądach literackich polskiego Oświecenia. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe 1975, 479 s. Wyd. 2 tamże 1979.
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Zawartość
6. Słownik terminów literackich. [Autorzy:] M. Głowiński, T. Kostkiewiczowa, A. Okopień-Sławińska, J. Sławiński. Pod redakcją J. Sławińskiego. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Ossolineum 1976, 577 s. Oprac. w Instytucie Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Vademecum Polonisty. Wyd. nast. tamże: wyd. 2 poszerzone i poprawione 1989, wyd. 3 poszerzone i poprawione 1998, dodruk 2000, wyd. 4 2002, dodruk: 2005, 2007, wyd. 5 2008, dodruk 2010.
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7. Horyzonty wyobraźni. O języku poezji czasów Oświecenia. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe 1984, 403 s.
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Zawartość
8. Krytyka literacka w Polsce w XVI i XVII wieku oraz w epoce Oświecenia. [Autorki:] E. Sarnowska-Temeriusz, T. Kostkiewiczowa. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Ossolineum 1990, 352 s. Oprac. w Instytucie Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Vademecum Polonisty.
Zawartość
9. Podręczny słownik terminów literackich. [Autorzy:] M. Głowiński, T. Kostkiewiczowa, A. Okopień-Sławińska, J. Sławiński. Pod red. J. Sławińskiego. Warszawa:Open 1993, 285 s. Wyd. nast. tamże: wyd. 2-9 1994-1996, wyd. 10 zmienione 1997, wyd. 11 zmienione 1998, wyd. 12 zmienione 1999, wyd. 13 2000, wyd. 14 poprawione 2001, dodruk 2005.
10. Oświecenie. Próg naszej współczesności. Warszawa: Semper 1994, 258 s.
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Przekłady
francuski
11. Oda w poezji polskiej. Dzieje gatunku. Wrocław: Fundacja na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej; Leopoldinum; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego 1996, 422 s. Monografie Fundacji na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej.
Nagrody
12. Studia o Krasickim. [Szkice]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo IBL PAN 1997, 227 s.
Zawartość
13. Polski wiek świateł. Obszary swoistości. Wrocław: Fundacja na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego 2002, 449 s. Monografie Fundacji na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej. Wyd. 2. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika 2017, 475 s. Res Humanae.
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Zawartość
14. Z oddali i z bliska. Studia o wieku oświecenia. Warszawa: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego; Wydawnictwo Neriton 2010, 437 s.
Zawartość
15. Pamiętniki Stanisława Augusta na nowo odkryte. Warszawa: Arx Regia Ośrodek Wydawniczy Zamku Królewskiego w Warszawie – Muzeum 2015, 174 s. Studia i Materiały – Zamek Królewski w Warszawie, 4.
16. Myśli różne. [Miscellanea]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego 2016, 26 s.
17. Teresa Kostkiewiczowa w rozmowach z Magdaleną Partyką. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Badań Literackich PAN; Wydawnictwo Naukowe UKSW 2017, 189 s.
18. Mnemozyne i córki. Pamięć w literaturze polskiej drugiej połowy XVIII wieku. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika 2019, 360 s.
Zawartość
19. Pod znakiem Klio. Pamięć zbiorowa w polskiej poezji drugiej połowy XVIII wieku. Białystok: Prymat Mariusz Śliwowski; Wydział Filologiczny. Uniwersytet w Białymstoku 2019, 115 s. Prelekcje Mistrzów, 7.
Zawartość
Artykuły w czasopismach i książkach zbiorowych, m.in.
Prace redakcyjne
Nagrody
[T. 1]. Oświeceni o literaturze. [Cz. 1] Wypowiedzi pisarzy polskich 1740-1800. [Wstęp:] T. Kostkiewiczowa: Myśl literacka polskiego Oświecenia, 1993, 555 s.
[T. 1]. Oświeceni o literaturze. [Cz. 2]. Wypowiedzi pisarzy polskich 1801-1830, 1995, 477 s.
Omówienia i recenzje
• Ankiety dla IBL PAN 1983, 2006, 2023.
Wywiady
Zob. też Twórczość poz. ↑.
