KALINOWSKA Maria

Born on 24 December 1954 in Gdansk; daughter of the engineer and master mariner (kapitan jachtowej żeglugi wielkiej) and the white-collar worker Idalia, née Skorwid. She attended Grammar School No. IX in Gdansk from 1969 to 1973. After completing advanced secondary education she studied Polish philology at the University of Gdansk (UG). She was awarded a master's degree in 1977, graduating with a distinction. From 1979 to 1984, she was on the doctoral programme of the Institute for Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN) in Warsaw. She attended the doctoral seminars organized by Prof. Maria Janion at IBL PAN in Warsaw and at UG. From 1985 she worked at the Institute of Polish Philology (later the Institute of Polish Literature – ILP) at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK) in Torun, initially as a research assistant and then as lecturer. She was awarded a doctoral degree in 1985 for her dissertation Mowa i milczenie – romantyczne antynomie samotności (Speech and Silence: Romantic antinomies of loneliness), which was supervised by Prof. Maria Żmigrodzka. She made her debut in 1986, publishing an excerpt of her doctoral thesis in the edited volume Style zachowań romantycznych (Romantic Styles of Behaviour; Warsaw, 1986). Her research subsequently focused on Romantic literature and theatre. In 1985, she became a member of the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society (TLAM), serving as secretary of the Torun Branch in the 1980s. In 1986, she joined the Torun Scientific Society (Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu). In 1991, she was appointed to the editorial board of the new critical edition of Adam Mickiewicz's collected works (Dzieła) that was published by TLAM, with Prof. Zofia Stefanowska as editor-in-chief on the project. She was awarded a habilitation degree from UMK in 1995 for her study Grecja romantyków. Studia nad obrazem Grecji w literaturze romantycznej (The Romantics' Greece: The image of Greece in Romantic literature). She was appointed associate professor in 1997, when she was also made head of the Department of Romanticism and Positivism at ILP at UMK, a position she held until 2003.
In 1997, she started collaborating with the University of Warsaw's Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition in Poland and East-Central Europe (Ośrodek Badań nad Tradycją Antyczną w Polsce i w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego; OBTA) Between 1997 and 2000, she was director of the programme Antyk romantyków – model europejski i wariant polski (The Romantics' Antiquity: The European Model and the Polish Variant) at OBTA in collaboration with ILP at UMK. It was funded by a collective grant from the State Committee for Scientific Research (Komitet Badań Naukowych). In 1998/99, she was a research fellow at the University of Patras, Greece, where she conducted research on modern Greek literature and culture. From the 1990s onwards, she served in a number of management and research-related functions at UMK, including co-organizer of the major in theatre studies in the Polish philology programme; supervisor of the Research Group on Editing and Textual Studies (Koło Naukowe Edytorsko-Tekstologiczne) and the Theatre Studies Research Group at the Faculty of Humanities (Koło Teatrologów na Wydziale Humanistycznym); director of the part-time degree programme in Polish philology; member of the Didactic Commission of the Faculty of Humanities; member, then deputy chair and finally chair of the Publishing Committee at the Faculty of Philology; and member of the UMK Library Board. From 2001 to 2004, she was head of the inter-university team working on the project Przekształcenia antycznych mitów tematów i symboli w literaturze i sztuce romantyzmu i modernizmu (Transformations of the Myths, Themes and Symbols of Antiquity in Romantic and Modernist Literature and Art), which was based at OBTA. In 2001 she was appointed editor-in-chief of the OBTA and ILP at UMK publication series Antyk Romantyków (The Romantics' Antiquity). She was made state-appointed professor in 2004. In 2005 she took up a visiting professorship at OBTA at the University of Warsaw (UW) (which in 2008 became the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies "Artes Liberales" and in 2012 the Faculty of "Artes Liberales"). Her work there focused on Greek influences in Romantic literature and culture. From the late 1990s she was a fellowship holder and visiting researcher at various universities, including Jesus College in the University of Cambridge, the Polish Library in Paris, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, and Collegium Budapest – Institute for Advanced Study in Hungary. She participated in several dozen academic conferences in Poland and abroad, some co-organized by UMK and UW, and in international research projects, including East Looks West: East European Travel Writing on Europe, which was organized by the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies (completed in 2008), Multiple antiquities – multiple modernities. Ancient histories in nineteenth century European cultures, organized by Collegium Budapest (2005), International PhD project in the humanities at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales" at UW (ongoing in collaboration with the East European School in the Humanities (Miedzynarodowa Szkola Humanistyczna Europy Wschodniej; MSH EW). Between 2006 and 2009, she was leader of the inter-university team working on the project Filhellenizm romantyków – specyfika polska i konteksty europejskie (słowiańskie i zachodnie) (The Romantics' Philhellenism: Polish particularities and European contexts – Slavic and Western). From 2011 she was head of the project Sparta w literaturze i kulturze polskiej – od okresu staropolskiego do XX wieku. Między recepcją dziedzictwa greckiego a poszukiwaniem narodowej tożsamości (Sparta in Polish Literature and Culture from the Old Polish era to the Twentieth Century: Between reception of Greek heritage and the search for national identity). From 2007 to 2014 she was editor-in-chief of the quarterly of the UMK Faculty of Philology "Litteraria Copernicana" before joining the journal's Scientific Council. She is a four-time winner of the UMK rector's prize and awards (1986, 1995, 2004 and 2012). In 2013, she was appointed full professor at UMK and then left the university in 2014, moving to the Faculty of "Artes Liberales" at UW. From 2015 to 2018 she was head of the inter-university team working on the project Odnaleziony raptularz Juliusza Słowackiego z podróży na Wschód jako romantyczne dzieło synkretyczne oraz źródło literackie i ikonograficzne do badań nad historią i kulturą XIX wieku (Juliusz Słowacki's Rediscovered Diary from his Journey to the East as both a Syncretic Romantic Work and also a Literary and Iconographic Source for Investigating Nineteenth-Century History and Culture). She was awarded the Medal of the Commission of National Eduction in 2008 and the Gold Long-Service Medal in 2012. She lives in Torun.