Research Interests: Polish literature, Middle Ages to the present; Polish cultural history; Polish drama and theatre, 18th century to the present; Adam Mickiewicz; Zbigniew Herbert; Tadeusz Rózewicz; performance studies; gender theory and criticism

Courses taught: Polish literature, Middle Ages to the present; Polish culture; taboo topics in Polish literature and culture; gender theory and criticism; Polish and Polish American women writers

Selected Publications:

I. BOOKS

Eugene O'Neill. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, 1975.

The Theatre of Tadeusz Rózewicz. Pittsburgh: East European Studies Program, 1983.

A Laboratory of Impure Forms: The Plays of Tadeusz Rózewicz. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Laboratorium form nieczystych: Dramaturgia Tadeusza Rózewicza. Trans. Tomasz Kunz. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2000.

II. EDITED VOLUMES

Forum: Polish Emigre Literature. Ed. Halina Filipowicz. Slavic and East European Journal 33.2 (Summer 1989): 157-216.

Sacrum in Polish Literature: A Poetics of Presence and Absence. Ed. Halina Filipowicz. Trans. Joanna Dutkiewicz. Special issue of Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 47.3-4 (Spring-Summer 1995): 141-243.

Forum: Rethinking Slavic Drama, Theatre, Performance. Ed. Halina Filipowicz. Slavic and East European Journal 43.1 (Spring 1999): 1-84.

Forum: Mickiewicz: "East" and "West." Ed. Halina Filipowicz. Slavic and East European Journal 45.4 (Winter 2001): 605-731.

The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe. Ed. Michael Cherlin, Halina Filipowicz, and Richard L. Rudolph. Volume 4 in the series Austrian History, Culture, and Society, General Editor, Gary Cohn. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2003. [Hardcover edition]

The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe. Ed. Michael Cherlin, Halina Filipowicz, and Richard L. Rudolph. Volume 4 in the series Austrian History, Culture, and Society, General Editor, Gary Cohn. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004. [Paperback edition]

Polonistyka po amerykansku: Badania nad literatura polska w Ameryce Polnocnej (1990-2005). Ed. Halina Filipowicz, Andrzej Karcz, and Tamara Trojanowska. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2005.

III. SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

1. "Spatial Polarities in the Plays of Tadeusz Rozewicz." Themes in Drama: The Theatrical Space. Ed. James Redmond. Cambridge University Press, 1987. 199-213.

2. "The Puzzle of Tadeusz Rozewicz's White Marriage." Themes in Drama: Drama and Philosophy. Ed. James Redmond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 211-23.

3. "'A Case of Stolen Goods': Quotation in the Plays of Tadeusz Rozewicz." Slavic Drama: The Question of Innovation. Ed. Andrew Donskov and Richard Sokoloski. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 1991. 69-83.

4. "From Comedy to Melodrama: The Transposition of a Polish Theme." Themes in Drama: Melodrama. Ed. James Redmond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 105-20.

5. "Od Kartoteki do Klucza. Problem formy w dramatach Tadeusza Rózewicza." Zobaczyc poete. Ed. Ewa Guderian-Czaplinska and Elzbieta Kalemba-Kasprzak. Poznan: Wydawnictwo WiS, 1993. 33-50.

6. "Tadeusza Rózewicza trylogia postmodernistyczna." Trans. Ewa Guderian-Czaplinska and Halina Filipowicz. Dramat i teatr po roku 1945. Ed. Jacek Popiel. Wroclaw: Wiedza o Kulturze, 1994. 85-101. [Reprint of #35]

7. "Temat konspiracyjno-powstanczy we wspólczesnym dramatopisarstwie emigracyjnym." Dramat i teatr polskiej emigracji 1939-1989. Ed. Izolda Kiec, Dobrochna Ratajczakowa, and Jacek Wachowski. Poznan: Acarus, 1994. 223-44.

8. "Mit powstanczy w dramacie krajowym i emigracyjnym." Powstanie Warszawskie w historiografii i literaturze 1944-1994. Ed. Zygmunt Mankowski and Jerzy Swiech. Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, 1996. 167-93.

9. "The Daughters of Emilia Plater." Engendering Slavic Literatures. Ed. Pamela Chester and Sibelan Forrester. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. 34-58.

10. "Where is Gurutowski?" The Grotowski Sourcebook. Ed. Richard Schechner and Lisa Wolford. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. 402-06. [Revised version of # 36]

11. "Jews and Poles on the Barricades of Warsaw: Two Polish Plays on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising." The Phoney Peace: Power and Culture in Central Europe 1945-49. Ed. Robert B. Pynsent. London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 2000. 58-70.

12. "Przeciw 'literaturze kobiecej.'" Cialo i tekst: Feminizm w literaturoznawstwie - antologia szkicow. Ed. Anna Nasilowska. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2001. 222-34. [Revised reprint of # 38]

13. "Theatrical Reality in the Plays of Tadeusz Rozewicz." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 139. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter and Justin Kerr. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. 227-33. [Reprint of # 28]

14. "Tadeusz Rozewicz's The Card Index: A New Beginning for Polish Drama." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 139. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter and Justin Kerr. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. 244-51. [Reprint of # 30]

15. "The Puzzle of Tadeusz Rozewicz's White Marriage." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 139. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter and Justin Kerr. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. 263-70. [Reprint of # 2]

16. "Tadeusz Rozewicz's Postmodern Trilogy." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 139. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter and Justin Kerr. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. 275-85. [Reprint of # 34]

17. "Beginning to Theorize 'Polish Emigre Literature.'" Between Lvov, New York, and Ulysses' Ithaca: Jozef Wittlin - Poet, Essayist, Novelist. Ed. Anna Frajlich. Torun: Nicholas Copernicus University; New York: Columbia University, 2001. 225-42.

18. "Where is Gurutowski?" The Grotowski Sourcebook. Revised ed. Ed. Richard Schechner and Lisa Wolford. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. 404-08. [Paperback edition of # 10]

19. "Othering the Kosciuszko Uprising: Women as Problem in Polish Insurgent Discourse." Studies in Language, Literature, and Cultural Mythology in Poland: Investigating "The Other." Ed. Elwira M. Grossman. With a preface by Jadwiga Maurer. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002. 55-83. Winner of the Association of Women in Slavic Studies Prize in 2003 for the best article in Slavic / East European / Eurasian Women's Studies.

20. "Home as Desire: The Popular Pleasures of Gender in Polish Emigre Drama." Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self. Ed. Bozena Shallcross. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. 277-300.

21. "Docheri Emilii Plater." Trans. P. Legenchenko. Zhenshchiny na kraju Evropy. Ed. Elena Gapova. Minsk: European Humanities University Press, 2003. 334-50. [Russian translation of # 9]

22. "Rethinking Drama and Theater in Austria and Central Europe." The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe. Ed. Michael Cherlin, Halina Filipowicz, and Richard L. Rudolph. Volume 4 in the series Austrian History, Culture, and Society, General Editor, Gary Cohn. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2003. 3-16.

23. "Taming a Transgressive National Hero: Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Nineteenth-Century Polish Drama." The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe. Ed. Michael Cherlin, Halina Filipowicz, and Richard L. Rudolph. Volume 4 in the series Austrian History, Culture, and Society, General Editor, Gary Cohn. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2003. 33-51.

24. "Shifting a Cultural Paradigm: Between the Mystique and the Marketing of Polish Theatre." Over the Wall / After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures Through an East-West Gaze. Ed. Sibelan Forrester, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, and Elena Gapova. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. 164-80.

25. "Dov'e 'Gurutowski'?" Trans. Simona Ferro. Essere un uomo totale: Autori polacchi su Grotowski. L'ultimo decennio. Ed. Janusz Degler, Grzegorz Ziolkowski, Marina Fabbri, and Renata Molinari. Pisa: Titivillus Edizioni; Wroclaw: Osrodek Badan Tworczosci Jerzego Grotowskiego i Poszukiwan Teatralno-Kulturowych, 2005. 141-47. [Italian translation of # 10]

26. Co-author, with Andrzej Karcz and Tamara Trojanowska. Introduction. Polonistyka po amerykansku: Badania nad literatura polska w Ameryce Polnocnej (1990-2005). Ed. Halina Filipowicz, Andrzej Karcz, and Tamara Trojanowska. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2005. 7-18.

27. "Tekst - performer: Dramaturgia Zbigniewa Herberta a problem performatywnosci." Polonistyka po amerykansku: Badania nad literatura polska w Ameryce Polnocnej (1990-2005). Ed. Halina Filipowicz, Andrzej Karcz, and Tamara Trojanowska. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2005. 157-82.

IV. SELECTED ARTICLES

28. "Theatrical Reality in the Plays of Tadeusz Rozewicz." Slavic and East European Journal 26.4 (Winter 1982): 447-59.

29. "Expedition into Culture: The Gardzienice." TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies 27.1 (1983): 54-71.

30. "Tadeusz Rozewicz's The Card Index: A New Beginning for Polish Drama." Modern Drama 27 (September 1984): 395-408.

31. "Gardzienice: A Polish Expedition to Baltimore." TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies 31.1 (1987): 137-63.

32. "Fission and Fusion: Polish Emigre Literature." Slavic and East European Journal 33.2 (Summer 1989): 157-72.

33. "Solidarity with Solidarity: Six Polish Plays." Modern Drama 33.1 (March 1990): 106-19.

34. "Tadeusz Rozewicz's Postmodern Trilogy." The Polish Review 36.1 (1991): 83-102.

35. "Tadeusza Rozewicza trylogia postmodernistyczna." Dialog 36.10 (October 1991): 85-95. [Polish translation of # 34]

36. "Where is Gurutowski?" TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies 35.1 (1991): 181-86.

37. "Polish Theatre after Solidarity: A Challenging Test." TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies 36.1 (1992): 70-89.

38. "Przeciw 'literaturze kobiecej.'" Teksty Drugie 4-6 (1993): 245-58.

39. "Demythologizing Polish Theatre." TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies 39.1 (1995): 122-28.

40. "Biale malzenstwo i Wierna rzeka (rekonesans feministyczny)." Teksty Drugie 3-4 (1995): 248-56.

41. "Sacrum in Polish Literature: A Poetics of Presence and Absence." Renascence 47.3-4 (Spring-Summer 1995): 141-50.

42. "Textualizing Trauma: From Valesa to Kosciuszko in Polish Theatre of the 1980s." Theatre Journal 48.4 (December 1996): 443-60.

43. "Hera's Glass Eyes: A Counterreading of Zbigniew Herbert's Plays." The Other Herbert. Ed. Bozena Shallcross. Special issue of Indiana Slavic Studies 9 (1998): 9-27.

44. "'Polska literatura emigracyjna' - proba teorii." Trans. Krzysztof Korzyk. Teksty Drugie 3 (1998): 43-62. [Polish translation of # 17]

45. "Performing Bodies, Performing Mickiewicz: Drama as Problem in Performance Studies." Slavic and East European Journal 43.1 (Spring 1999): 1-18.

46. "Mickiewicz - Performer: Dramat jako problem w studiach performatywnych." Trans. Grzegorz Ziolkowski. Jerzy Grotowski, 1933-1999. Special issue of Pamietnik Teatralny 49.1-4 (2000): 347-69. [Polish translation of # 45]

47. "Taboo Topics in Polish and Polish/Jewish Cultural Studies." The Journal of the International Institute [Ann Arbor] 9.1 (Fall 2001): 3-8.
<http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/journal/vol9no1/halina.html>

48. "Mickiewicz: 'East' and 'West.'" Slavic and East European Journal 45.4 (Winter 2001): 606-23.

49. "Gender in Polish Drama, Or, What's a Good Polish Woman like Queen Wanda Doing in Plays like These?" The Other in Polish Theatre and Drama. Ed. Kathleen Cioffi and Bill Johnston. Special issue of Indiana Slavic Studies 14 (2003): 93-125.

50. "Gardzienice: A Polish Expedition to Baltimore." Published on a CD included in Hidden Territories: The Theatre of Gardzienice, by Wlodzimierz Staniewski, with Alison Hodge. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. [Reprint of # 31].

51. "Tajemnice Krakowiakow i Gorali." Przeglad Polski [New York City] (27 February 2004): 1-2.
<http://www.dziennik.com/www/dziennik/kult/archiwum/01-06-04/pp-02-27-01.html>

52. "Is There a World Beyond Krasicki and Gombrowicz?" The Polish Review 49.2 (2004): 839-46.

53. "Co to sa te dzendery?" Przeglad Polski [New York City] (4 November 2005): 8.
<http://www.dziennik.com/www/dziennik/kult/archiwum/07-12-05/pp-11-04-02.html>

54. "Pojedynek Anny Schugt Terleckiej z Mickiewiczem." Przeglad Polski [New York City] (25 November 2005): 2.
<http://www.dziennik.com/www/dziennik/kult/archiwum/07-12-05/pp-11-25-03.html>

55. "What Good Are Polish Literary Studies in the United States?" Slavic and East European Journal 50.1 (Spring 2006).

56. "The Wound of History: Gender Studies and Polish Particulars." Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture. Ed. Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren. Special issue of Indiana Slavic Studies (2006).