Slavic and
East European
Languages and Literature

Halina Stephan, Professor

Edit Halina Stephan

Education

Academic Positions

Teaching and Research Interests

Fellowships, Grants and Awards

Bibliography

Books

Zycie w przekladzie. Polscy autorzy w Ameryce. Ed. Halina Stephan. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2002. (Polish version of Living in Translation). 320 pp.

Transcending the Absurd: Drama and Prose of Slawomir Mrozek. Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, 28. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997. 276 pp. (a revised English version of the book Mrozek).

Mrozek. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1996. 283 pp.

LEF and the Left Front of the Arts. Slavistische Beiträge, 142. Munich: Sagner, 1981. 241 pp.

Articles

"Discovering America in Contemporary Polish Drama." In: The Other In Polish Theatre and Drama, ed. Kathleeen Cioffi and Bill Johnson. Indiana Slavic Studies 14 (2003). Pp. 41-55.

"The Last Exiles," Living in Translation: Polish Authors in America. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.
Pp. 7-28.

"Wprowadzenie." Zycie w przekladzie. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2001.
Pp. 5-15.

"Slawomir Mrozek." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Twentieth Century Eastern European Writers. Ed. Steven Serafin. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Pp. 270-280.

"Construction of Nationality in Polish Expatriate Drama." Perspectives on Modern Central and East European Literature: Quests for Identity, ed. Todd Amstrong. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. 63-87.

"Slawomir Mrozek." Kritisches Lexikon zur fremsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (with Alexander Stephan). Munich: Edition text+kritik, 1994. 46. Nlg. 1-12, A/1-A/4, B/1-4, C/1-C/4, D/1-D/6.

"Contemporary Polish Drama on Foreign Stages." Slavic and East European Performance 1 (1998), 44-55.

"Paradoksy swiadomosci narodowej." Rzeczpospolita 221 (1996): 18.

"Remembering Stalinism: Slawomir Mrozek's Portrait and His Autobiographical Writings." The Polish Review 2 (1994), 131-148.

"Larisa Reisner." The Bio-Critical Guide to Russian Women Writers: The Post-Revolutionary Period. Ed. Marina Ledkowsky, Charlotte Rosenthal, and Mary Zirin. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. Pp. 534-6.

"Opinie: Polonistyka za granica." [Opinions: Study of Polish Literature Abroad]. Teksty Drugie 1-2 (1992), 139-142.

"Mrozek in the United States." Le Theatre en Pologne. The Theatre in Poland 6 (1990), 20-24.

"Bibliografia: Slawomir Mrozek w Stanach Zjednoczonych" [Bibliography: Slawomir Mrozek in the United States]. Utwory Slawomira Mrozka na scenach polskich i zagranicznych. Ed. Elzbieta Wrzesinska. Cracow: Mrozek Festival, 1990. Pp. 74-77.

"Reakcje amerykanskie" [American reactions]. Kultura i Zycie (Warsaw) 13 (1990): 3

"Slawomir Mrozek: From Satire to National Drama." The Polish Review 1 (1989), 45-56.

"Larisa Reisner: Revolution in Life and Art." Proceedings of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 1988. Slavic Section. Ed. Vitaly Wowk. Lexington, Ky: Department of Russian and Eastern Studies, 1988. Pp. 163-72.

"Il secondo futurismo russo: la dimensione politica" [Russian Futurism: The Political Dimension]. Futurismo, cultura e politica. Ed. Renzo DeFelice. Torino: Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 1988. Pp. 381-406.

"Efremov, Ivan," "Gastev, Aleksei," "Grekova, Irina," "Furmanov, Dmitrii." The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1988.

"Slawomir Mrozek" (with Alexander Stephan). Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Munich: edition text + kritik, 1988. Pp. 1-10, A/1-2, B/1-3, C/1-3, D/1-5.

"Die Grenzen wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts in Milliarden Jahre vor dem Weltuntergang" [The Limits of Scientific Progress in Definitely Maybe by the Strugatskys]. Trans. Franz Rottensteiner. Polaris 10. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1986. Pp. 181-91.

"The Myth of the Revolutionary Poet: Majakovskij in Three Modern Plays." Slavic and East European Journal 2 (1986), 247-61.

"The Futurists in the 1920s: Strategies for Professional Survival." Proceedings of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 1986. Slavic Section. Ed. Boris Sorokin. Lexington, Ky: Department of Russian and Eastern Studies, 1986. Pp. 70-78.

"Left Art." Handbook of Russian Literature. Ed. Victor Terras. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Pp. 244-46.

"Futurism and the Changing Function of Literature in the 1920s." Russian Literature and American Critics. Ed. Kenneth Brostrom. Papers in Slavic Philology, 4. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publication, 1984. Pp. 191-210.

"Writer and His Audience: Recent Plays by Slawomir Mrozek." Newsnotes on Soviet and East European Drama and Theater 2 (1985), 7-13.

"Aleksei Tolstoi's Aelita and the Inauguration of Soviet Science Fiction." Canadian American Slavic Studies 1-2 (1984), 63-75.

"Fairy Tale and Folklore in Soviet Science Fiction." Mosaic 3 (1983), 1-10.

"Tynyanov's Film Theory in Practice," Proceeding of the Purdue University Fifth Annual Conference on Film. Ed. Maud Walter. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University, 1981. Pp. 193-200.

"LEF and the Development of Early Soviet Prose." Slavic and East European Journal 4 (1980), 369-78.

"The Changing Protagonist in Soviet Science Fiction." Fiction and Drama in Eastern and Southeastern Europe: Evolution and Experiment in the Postwar Period. Ed. Henrik Birnbaum and Thomas Eekman. Columbus: Slavica, 1980. Pp. 361-78.

"Majakovskij's Post-Revolutionary Poetics and the LEF Concept of Art." Russian Language Journal, 116 (1979), 124-33.

"The Rediscovery of the Left Front of the Arts in the 1960s and 1970s." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 3 (1979), 332-49.

"Cement: From Gladkov's Monumental Epos to Müller's Avant-Garde Drama." Germano-Slavica 2 (1979), 85-104.

"Wissenschafliche Fantastik und fantastische Parabel in der sowjetischen Gegenwartsliteratur" [Science Fiction and the Fantastic Parable in Contemporary Soviet Literature]. Osteuropa 11 (1979), 877-92.

Reviews

Karen Majewski, Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish American Idenity, 1880-1939. Slavic Review 4 (2004), 858-9.

Leonard Polakiewicz, Joanna Radwanska-Williams, Waldemar Walczynski, Polish Language Learning Framework. Polish Review 4 (2003): 514-16.

Leonard Polakiewicz, Intermediate Polish: A Cultural Reader with Exercises. Polish Review 3 (2003): 375-77.

Irina Paperno, ed. Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism. Russian Language Journal 168-170 (1997), 312-4.

Kazimierz Braun, A History of Polish Theater, 1939-1989: Spheres of Captivity and Freedom. Canadian-American Slavic Studies 4 (1997), 490-492.

Gerda Hagenau, Polnisches Theater und Drama. Ein integraler Bestandteil europäischer Theaterkultur 966-1795. Slavic Review, 1 (1996), 1034-35.

Birgit Menzel, V. V. Majakovskij und seine Rezeption in der Sowjetunion. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 43 (1995), 285-6.

Donald Davie, Slavic Excursions: Essays on Russian and Polish Literature. Literary Research/Recherche Letteraire.

Susan Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-1934. Slavic and East European Journal, 2 (1994), 383-4.

Jerzy Andrzejewski, Ashes and Diamonds. Janusz Glowacki, Hunting Cockroaches and Other Plays. Slavic and East European Journal, 2 (1993).

Slavic Drama: Question of Innovation. Ed. Andrew Donskov and Richard Sokoloski. Slavic and East European Journal, 4 (1992), 495-96.

Stanislaw Baranczak, Breathing under Water and Other East European Essays. Slavic and East European Journal, 1 (1992), 140-42.

Perspectives on Literature and Society in Eastern and Western Europe. Ed. Geoffrey A. Hoskins and George A. Cushing. Slavic and East European Journal, 4 (1991), 572-74.

America Through Russian Eyes 1874-26. Ed. Olga Peters Hasty and Susanne Fusso. Literary Research/Recherche Litteraire, 12 (1989), 12-13.

Juliette R. Stapanian, Mayakovsky's Cubo-Futurist Vision. Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 1-4 (1988), 46-7.

Victor Terras, Mayakovsky. Slavic and East European Journal, 1 (1986), 113-14.

Russian and Polish Women's Fiction. Ed. Helena Goscilo. Slavic Review, 2 (1986), 234-5.

Pre-Revolutionary Science Fiction: An Anthology. Ed. Leland Fetzer. Slavic and East European Journal, 3 (1984), 413-14.

Rosyjskie kierunki literackie: Przelom 19 i 20 wieku. Ed. Zbigniew Baranski and Jerzy Litwinow. Slavic and East European Journal, 3 (1984), 277-78.

Über Stanislaw Lem. Ed. Wener Berthel. Slavic and East European Journal, 4 (1982), 503-4.

Christian Mailand-Hansen, Mejerchol'ds Theaterästhetik in den 1920er Jahren. Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 3-4 (1982), 555-56.

Richard L Chapple, Soviet Satire of the Twenties. Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 1 (1983), 138-40.

Anna Lawton, Vadim Shershenevich: From Futurism to Imaginism. Slavic and East European Journal, 3 (1981), 361-62.

A.D.P. Briggs, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy; and A.S. Charters, I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik. Slavic and East European Journal, 4 (1980), 430-32.

Edward Mozejko, Der sozialistische Realismus: Theorie, Entwicklung und Versagen einer Literaturmethode. Slavic and East European Journal, 2 (1979), 389-90.

Maurice Friedberg, A Decade of Euphoria: Western Literature in Post-Stalin Russia, 1954-64. Osteuropa, 8 (1979), 83-84.

Wolfgang Kasack, Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917. Germano-Slavica, 1 (1979), 74-75.

Fritz Mierau, Erfindung und Korrektur. Tretjakows Ästhetik der Operativität. Slavic and East European Journal, 3 (1978), 389-90.

Anton Hiersche, Sowjetliteratur und wissenschaftlich-technische Revolution. Slavic and East European Journal, 3 (1978), 389-90.

Dokumente zur sowjetischen Literaturpolitik 1917-1932. Ed. Karl Eimermacher. Germano-Slavica, 2 (1977), 221-23.

Vladimir Majakovskij: Memoirs and Essays. Ed. Bengt Jangfeldt and Nils Ake Nilsson. Slavic and East European Journal, 3 (1977), 415-17.

Proletkult. Ed. Peter Gorsen and Eberhard Knödler-Bunte. Slavic and East European Journal, 4 (1976), 496-8.

Sergej Tretjakow, Lyrik. Dramatik. Prosa. Ed. Fritz Mierau; Sergej Tretjakov, Die Arbeit des Schriftstellers . Ed. Heiner Boehncke. Slavic and East European Journal, 4 (1976), 464-6.

Boris Arvatov, Kunst und Produktion. Ed. Hans Günther and Karla Hielscher. Germano-Slavica, 2 (1976), 69-71.

Papers Presented

"Around the Bloc: Public Face of Slavic Studies in the Post-Cold War Era." Invited lecture. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: October 2003.

"From Mexico to Krakow: Mrozek’s ‘The Chronicle of the Return’ (Dziennik Powrotu)." Annual Convention of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America. Montreal: June 2003.

"Larisa Reisner as the Beautiful Lady of the Bolshevik Revolution." Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 2002, Pittsburgh.

"Protocols of Exile in Contemporary Literature." Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, June 2002, Washington, DC.

"Our Woman in Afghanistan: Larisa Reisner and Bolshevik Orientalism." Southern Council for Slavic Studies, March 14-16, 2002, Daytona, FL.

"Marketing the Diaspora: Polish Culture in America." Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 2001, Washington, DC.

"Exile as Privilege: Polish Writers in America." Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute for Arts and Sciences in America, June 2001, New York, NY.

(roundtable) "Problems in Theories and Praxis of Expatriate/Émigré/Diasporic Literature."
Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 2000, Denver, CO.

"Mrozek as Historian." Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 2000, Denver, CO.

"The Image of America in Polish Exile Drama." The VI World Congress of the International Association of Slavic and East European Scholars, August 2000, Tempere, Finland.

"Dramaturgy of Mrozek and Glowacki in the Eyes of Foreign Commentators." Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, June 2000, Krakow, Poland.

"Legitimacy of a Lament: Grynberg’s Drohobycz, Drohobycz." Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 1999, St. Louis, MS .

"Constucting a Multicultural Self: Autobiographic Narratives of Henryk Grynberg." Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, August 1998, Haifa, Israel.

"The Appeal of Tradition: Polish Drama on Foreign Stages." Annual Meeting of the Amercian Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 1996, Boston, MA

"Slawomir Mrozek--a Socialist Realist?" Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, October 1995, Washington, DC.

"Construction of Nationality in Polish Emigré Drama." V World Congress for Central and East European Studies, August 1995, Warsaw, Poland.

"Russians in Recent Polish Literature." Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 1994, Philadephia, PA.

"Feminist Contribution to the Formation of Russian Revolutionary Literature." Florida Statewide Women's Studies Conference. Gainesville, FL. April, 1993.

"In Search of A Universal Audience: Polish Drama in Emigration." Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 1992, Phoenix, Arizona.

"To Market, To Market We Go: Tribulations of Transition in Russia, Poland, and East Germany." American Civilization Seminar, March 1992, Gainesville, FL.

"Slawomir Mrozek as an Emigré Dramatist." Meeting of the Southern Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, March 1992, Jacksonville, FL.

"The New Soviet Union: How New Can It Become?" University of Florida Annual Retired Faculty Meeting, October 1991, Gainesville, FL.

"Slawomir Mrozek: Reakcje amerykanskie." International Drama Festival on the Occasion of Slawomir Mrozek's Sixtieth Birthday, June 1990, Cracow, Poland.

"Slawomir Mrozek and Joseph Stalin." Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages, December 1990, Chicago.

"Slavic Studies in the United States." Institute of Polish Emigré Studies at the Jagiellonian University, November 1989, Cracow, Poland.

"Larisa Reisner: Revolution in Life and Art." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1988, Lexington, Kentucky.

"Ocherkist of the Revolution: Writings of Larisa Reisner." Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 1987, Boston, Massachussets.

"Slawomir Mrozek: From Satire to National Drama." Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, December 1986, New York.

"Russian Futurism: The Political Dimension." International Conference on Futurism, Culture, and Politics, May 1986, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy.

"The Futurists in the 1920s: Strategies for Professional Survival." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1986, Lexington, Kentucky.

"Writer and His Audience: Recent Plays by Slawomir Mrozek." Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 1985, Atlanta, Georgia.

"The Role of Cultural Tradition in the Absurdist Dramas of Slawomir Mrozek," XVIth Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures, August 1984, Budapest, Hungary.

"The Myth of the Revolutionary Poet as a Contemporary Literary Theme," Conference on "Utopia and Its Discontents: Zamyatin, Orwell, and Mayakovsky," April 1984, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

"Majakovskij as Our Contemporary: Three Modern Plays," Annual Conference of the Western Slavic Association, March 1984, Stanford, California.

"Literatura fakta: Literary Experiment in Political Agitation," Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 1983, Santa Barbara, California.

"Symbolist Beginnings of Soviet Science Fiction," Second International Congress of Soviet and East European Studies, September 1980, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

"Limits of Scientific Progress in Definitely Maybe (Za milliard let do konca sveta) by the Strugatskys," Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, October 1979, New Haven, Connecticut.

"Teaching Russian Science Fiction," Annual Meeting of the Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, May 1979, Los Angeles, California.

"Satirical Trends in Soviet Science Fiction," Annual Meeting of the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Slavic Association, April 1979, Lake Tahoe, California.

"Prose of the Left Front of the Arts," Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, December 1978, New York, New York.

"Majakovskij's Post-Revolutionary Poetry and the Theory of proizvodstvennoe iskusstvo," Annual Meeting of the Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, April 1978, Los Angeles, California.

"Avant-garde Models for Popular Prose in the Early 1920s," Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, April 1978, Albany, New York.

"The New Hero in Soviet Science Fiction," International Conference on "Fiction and Drama in Eastern Europe," March 1978, Los Angeles, California.

"The Early Soviet Arts: Experiment and Organization," Annual Meeting of the Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, April 1976, Irvine, California.

"Iskusstvo kommuny and Post-Revolutionary Futurism," Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 1975, San Jose, California.