Andrzej Brylak
Biography
Andrzej Brylak is a Postdoctoral Scholar teaching Polish language, literature and culture. His primary field of research is Polish and Eastern European modernity, especially in the post-WW2 context. He is currently working on a book titled Literary Surrogacy of Leo Lipski in which he examines the prose of the Polish/Israeli writer whose postwar subject turns the main mode of existence from the disintegrated carnality to reconstructed textuality. Andrzej Brylak’s research focuses on Interwar Poland, Stalinist Gulag, and Modern Israel and employs discourses such as biopolitics, Jewish and Christian theology, disability studies, and psychoanalysis. He is also interested in Polish and Eastern European modernization projects and their representations in film, theater, and architecture, as well as the impact the recent migration waves to Poland have on Polish language.
Education
- Ph.D. Slavic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, 7/2020
- M.A. Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, 7/2013
- B.A. Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, 6/2011