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American literature, Modernist poetry, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Confessional poetry
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Biography

Kosc is Associate Professor of American Literature at the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw. He is the author of two critical books, Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres (2005) and Robert Frost's Political Body (2014). Most recently, he has coedited, with Steven Gould Axelrod of University of California, Riverside (UCR), a new edition of Robert Lowell's Memoirs for Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2022), and with Thomas Austenfeld of the University of Fribourg, Robert Lowell in Context for Cambridge University Press (2024). He also has contributed essays to journals such as Wallace Stevens Journal, Partial Answers, Papers on Language and Literature, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and College Literature. In 2009 he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago; more recently, he has been a recipient of three major research grants from the National Science Center Poland.

Presently, he is working on a monograph "Robert Lowell's financial problems and the crisis of modernism" and coediting, with Steven G. Axelrod, Robert Lowell's Essays and Observations, again for Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Activities

Employment (3)

University of Warsaw: Warsaw, PL

2017-01-01 to present | Director / Professor of English (American Studies Center, Institute of the Americas and Europe)
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University of Warsaw: Warsaw, PL

2006-10-01 to 2016-12-15 | Associate Professor (American Studies Center, Institute of the Americas and Europe)
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University of Lodz: Lodz, PL

2000-10-14 to 2016-09-30 | Associate Professor, Chair of the American Studies Section (English Institute, American Literature Department)
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Education and qualifications (4)

University of Lodz: Lodz, PL

2015-06-26 to present | Habilitation (post-doctoral degree) (Faculty of Philology)
Education
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University of Lodz: Lodz, PL

2001-02-23 to present | Doctorate / Literary studies (Faculty of Philology)
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University of Warsaw: Warsaw, PL

1999-10-06 to present | MA degree
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University of Lodz: Lodz, PL

1996-08-26 to present | MA degree (Faculty of Philology, English Institute)
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Professional activities (4)

Modern Language Association: New York, NY, US

2011-04-06 to present | Member
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Robert Frost Society: Hattiesburg, MS, US

2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31 | President, 2013, 2019 (Department of English, University of Southern Mississippi)
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Polish Association for American Studies: Warsaw, PL

2017-11-05 | Vice-President
Distinction
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Robert Lowell Society: Riverside, CA, US

2007-01-01 | Advisory board member (UC Riverside)
Distinction
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Funding (11)

Robert Lowell's Economic Experience and the Crisis of Modernism

2019-01 to 2021-12 | Grant
Narodowe Centrum Nauki (National Science Center Poland) (Cracow, PL)
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2018/29/B/HS2/00749

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Grzegorz Kosc

The poetics and economics of Robert Lowell's English Years, 1970-1977

2018-07 to 2018-08 | Award
British Library, Eccles Centre for American Studies (London, GB)
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Grzegorz Kosc

A New Edition of Robert Lowell’s Prose

2017-07 to 2017-08 | Grant
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas (`Austin, Texas, TX, US)
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Grzegorz Kosc

Zapomniana proza amerykańskiego poety Roberta Lowella

2013-08-27 to 2017-02-26 | Grant
National Science Center (Krakow, PL)
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2012/07/B/HS2/01590

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Ciało polityczne amerykańskiego poety Roberta Frosta

2011-12-06 to 2013-06-06 | Grant
National Science Center (Krakow, PL)
GRANT_NUMBER:

2011/01/B/HS2/06117

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Robert Frost's Body Politic

2010-11 to 2010-12 | Award
John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University (Berlin, DE)
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Grzegorz Kosc

In the Wake of the Bollingen Controversy: Pond, Frost and Lowell in the Public Sphere

2008-08-01 to 2009-05-01 | Grant
Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Washington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

2498fbd9f0c238148334d8d22364426e

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Grzegorz Kosc via DimensionsWizard

In the Wake of the Bollingen Controversy: Postwar American Poets in the Public Sphere

2006 to 2007 | Grant
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX, TX, US)
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Grzegorz Kosc

Robert Frost's Inaugural Poem

2005-06 to 2005-07 | Grant
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation (MA, MA, US)
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Grzegorz Kosc

Robert Lowell Uncomfortable Epigone

2002 to 2003 | Award
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, MA, US)
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Stanley J. Kahrl Fellowship in Literary Manuscripts, 2002–2003

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Grzegorz Kosc

Robert Lowell between Modernism and Postmodernism

1999-10 to 1999-11 | Grant
Freie Universität Berlin, JFK Institut (Berlin, DE)
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Works (50 of 55)

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American Southern Great Chain of Being in Yusef Komunyakaa’s Magic City

Crossroads
2024 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85196663918

Part of ISSN: 23006250
Contributors: Kość, G.
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Grzegorz Kosc via Scopus - Elsevier
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Boston

Robert Lowell in Context
2024-03 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Grzegorz Kosc
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Robert Lowell In Context

Cambridge University Press
2024-03 | Book
Contributors: Thomas Austenfeld; Grzegorz Kosc
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Grzegorz Kosc

ROBERT LOWELL’S STILL LIFES AND THE MARKET ECONOMY OF THE POETIC PROFESSION

College Literature
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85175446177

Part of ISSN: 15424286 00933139
Contributors: Kosc, G.
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The Autobiographical Prose of Poets

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85190184938

Contributors: Kosc, G.
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Grzegorz Kosc via Scopus - Elsevier

Lowell’s Life Writing in Prose and Poetry

Bishop-Lowell Studies
2023-08-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Steven Gould Axelrod; Grzegorz Kosc
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The Autobiographical Prose of Poets

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry
2023-01-12 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781350062504
Contributors: Grzegorz Kosc
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Grzegorz Kosc
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Memoirs

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2022 | Book
Contributors: Lowell, Robert; Axelrod, S.G.; Kosc, G.
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Grzegorz Kosc
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Robert Giroux and the Editing of Lowell’s “The Balanced Aquarium”

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
2022-04-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0898-9575
Contributors: Steven Gould Axelrod; Grzegorz Kosc
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Robert Frost’s traitors and his poetics of disloyalty

Partial Answers
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85062920592

Contributors: Kosc, G.
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6: Robert Lowell and Ezra Pound’s Economics

Robert Lowell in a New Century
2019-12-31 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781787444645
Contributors: Grzegorz Kosc
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Grzegorz Kosc via Crossref Metadata Search

Robert Lowell and Ezra Pound's Economics

Robert Lowell in a New Century
2019-06-17 | Book chapter
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23749894

Part of ISBN: 9781787444645
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Robert Lowell's Onionskin Aesthetic

2018 | Journal article
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8230167

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Grzegorz Kosc via MLA International Bibliography
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Frost less "executive" than stevens

Wallace Stevens Journal
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85017470421

Contributors: Kosc, G.
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Rev. of The Pound Reaction: Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature by Andrew S. Gross

Polish Journal for American Studies 10 (2016): 231–33.
2016 | Book review
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Grzegorz Kosc

“The ‘Ordinary Sixties,” rev. Preserving the Sixties: Britain and the “Decade of Protest,” edited by Harris Trevor, Carla Monia, Castro O'Brien

Neue Politische Literatur 61.1 (2016): 157–58
2016 | Book review
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Grzegorz Kosc

Kral Majales in 'States Too Heavy to Be Comfortable': The Limits of Allen Ginsberg's Body-Derived Political Imagination

New Perspectives on American Poetry: From Walt Whitman to the Present,
2015 | Book chapter
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Rev. of Allen Tate: A Study of Southern Modernism and the Religious Imagination by Joseph Kuhn

Polish Journal for American Studies (2015): 174–76.
2015 | Book review
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Grzegorz Kosc

Rev. The Absolute and the Cold War: Discourse of Abstract Expressionism by Justyna Wierzchowska

The Americanist: Warsaw Journal for the Study of the United States (2014): 160–62.
2014 | Book review
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Grzegorz Kosc

Robert Frost's Political Body

2014 | Book
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Forms of Power: Frost’s Portraits in North of Boston and Mountain Interval.

American Experience: The Experience of America, eds. Andrzej Ceynowa and Marek Wilczynski. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013. 81–95.
2013 | Book chapter
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Grzegorz Kosc

Frost's Negotiations with Khrushchev: National Health, Poetics, and the Fate of West Berlin

2013 | Book
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C1E1510EB0A554B5852581F40051CABC

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Grzegorz Kosc via MLA International Bibliography
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The Search for a Democratic Aesthetics: Robert Rauschenberg, Walker Evans, William Carlos Williams by Alexander Leicht

Polish Journal for American Studies 7 (2013): 212–15.
2013 | Book review
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Grzegorz Kosc

The Transatlantic Sixties: Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade

2013 | Book
OTHER-ID:

7548455

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Grzegorz Kosc via MLA International Bibliography

The Transatlantic Sixties

2013-01 | Book
Part of ISBN: 9783839422168
Contributors: Grzegorz Kosc; Clara Juncker; Sharon Monteith; Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson
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A Divided Poet: Robert Frost, North of Boston, and the Drama of Disappearance, by David Sanders

Polish Journal for American Studies 6 (2012): 104–107.
2012 | Book review
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Grzegorz Kosc

Names, Proverbs, Riddles, and Material Text in Robert Frost by Timothy D. O’Brien

Robert Frost Review 21 (2012): 80–85
2012 | Book review
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Grzegorz Kosc

The Notebooks of Robert Frost, ed. by Robert Faggen

Resources for American Literary Study (RALS) 35 (2012): 400–403
2012 | Book review
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Grzegorz Kosc

"Lowell, Robert"

The Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture
2011 | Dictionary entry
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Grzegorz Kosc

"McCarthy, Eugene."

The Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture
2011 | Dictionary entry
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"My Lai"

The Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture
2011 | Dictionary entry
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Grzegorz Kosc

LOWELL, ROBERT (1917-1977)

Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture: Volume 1: A-M: Volume 2: N-Z
2011 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85192632395

Contributors: Kosc, G.
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Grzegorz Kosc via Scopus - Elsevier

Pursue the Illusion: Problems of Public Poetry in America by Astrid Franke

Polish Journal for American Studies 5 (2011): 190–92.
2011 | Book review
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Grzegorz Kosc

Robert Frost's Physiognomy at the End of the Liberal Consensus

2011 | Book
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Grzegorz Kosc via MLA International Bibliography
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Robert Lowell’s ‘Raspberry Sherbet Heart’: Jung’s Magnum Opus Gone Awry.

The Dream. vol. 3 Readings in English and American Literature and Culture
2011 | Book chapter
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Grzegorz Kosc

“Calley, Lt. William L.”

The Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture
2011 | Dictionary entry
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Grzegorz Kosc

Nation-Building Through Portraiture During the Cold War.

Beyond Imagined Uniqueness: Nationalisms in Contemporary Perspectives, eds. Joan Burbick and William Glass. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 47–65.
2010 | Book chapter
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Grzegorz Kosc

The Body, ed. by Ilona Dobosiewicz and Jacek Gutorow

Text Matters (Women and Authority / Word Image Sound) no. 1 (2010): 290–92
2010 | Book review
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Grzegorz Kosc

The Undoing of the Maya and Robert Frost's Chafed Boulders

2010 | Journal article
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7211779

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“The Symbol of Interracial Underclass in Adrian C. Louis’s Ancient Acid Flashes Back.”

America: The Natural and The Artificial
2010 | Book chapter
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Grzegorz Kosc

Poezja

Ameryka: Kultura, Spoleczenstwo, Polityka
2008 | Book chapter
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Reproduction of Power and Resistance during Robert Frost’s Recital at JFK’s Inaugural

Conformity and Resistance in America
2007 | Book chapter
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Translating the Nerve Center into Pure Language: Robert Lowell's 'Creative Misprision' of Ezra Pound's Translation Project

2007 | Book
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F4ED1D82FBA43D8E852573AD00150968

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Grzegorz Kosc via MLA International Bibliography

‘We Are All Dealers in Used Furniture’: Marriage in Robert Lowell’s Poetry and the Counseling of William Carlos Williams.

The Heritages of William Carlos Williams: Points of Contact.
2007 | Book chapter
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Grzegorz Kosc

Dluga czarna piesn: Zarys literatury afroamerykanskiej by Krzysztof Andrzejczak

The Americanist: Warsaw Journal for the Study of the United States 23 (2006): 178–81
2006 | Book review
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Grzegorz Kosc

Historia Literatury Amerykanskiej XX wieku, ed. Agnieszka Salska

Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich / Les problèmes des genres littéraires 47.1–2 (zesz. 93–94) (2005): 191–94.
2005 | Book review
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Grzegorz Kosc

Robert Lowell

2005 | Book
ISBN:

978-3-631-53607-0

Contributors: Grzegorz Kosc
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Grzegorz Kosc via Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)

Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres

2005 | Journal article
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071F689AF02C23A585257478005EBFF3

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Grzegorz Kosc via MLA International Bibliography

The Third-World Underdog Alliance: Adrian C. Louis’s Symbolic Action in Ancient Acid Flashes Back

Multiculturalism: For and Against
2005 | Book chapter
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Robert Lowell’s Symbolic Action in Support of Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 Presidential Campaign

Communism, Capitalism and the Politics of Culture
2004 | Book chapter
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