Agnieszka Mrozik
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Agnieszka Mrozik is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where she is affiliated with two research units: The Centre for Cultural and Literary Studies of Communism, and the Archives of Women. She held fellowships from the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena (2017), IAS CEU in Budapest (2018/19), and the DAAD program at the University of Hamburg (2019). Her research explores emancipatory discourses, transition memories, auto/biographies and women’s literature in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. She was a guest editor of the following journals: Teksty Drugie 1/2016, European Journal of Life Writing 10/2021, and Kultura i Społeczeństwo 2/2022.
Research Interests
Women, gender and generations in state-socialist and postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe.
Communist women in pre- and postwar Poland: biography, memory, literature.
Women’s life writing and literature in Central and Eastern Europe before and after 1989.
Critical analysis of media discourse and popular culture.
Reconstituting Publics through Remembering Transitions: Facilitating Critical Engagement with the 1980-90s on Local and Transnational Scales
(collaborative project, awarded a NetIAS Constructive Advanced Thinking grant, 2021-2024)
Three decades after the radical transformations of the USSR and its satellites began in the 1980s––1990s, the topic of ‘transitioning’ from socialist states to liberal democracies remains highly contentious in Central and Eastern Europe. Over the last decade, the transitional past has been increasingly instrumentalized, by national-populist actors and in the counter-memories of their opponents. In the context of heated contestations of memory, with high political stakes, spaces for dialogue are rapidly shrinking and public spheres are becoming increasingly ‘disconnected.’
The project addresses this societal issue by engaging with memory practices of the ‘transitional period’ beyond the polarized versions. Drawing on approaches of cultural analysis of discourse and affect, critical memory studies, public history, ethnography, and intersectional study of gender and generations, we aim to develop strategies for facilitating more cohesive and at the same time more critical practices of remembering that have the potential to lead to dialogue and form reflective communities. The comparative approach will allow for developing strategies that can be used by museums and cultural organizations on a transnational (European) level based on trans-local resonances rather than top-down scripts.
The participation of the NGO Transition Dialogue, Berlin, and collaboration with museums in Poland and Germany will facilitate the execution of empirical research and its translation into concrete recommendations.
Key publications
Mrozik, Agnieszka, & Tippner, Anja, “Remembering Late Socialism in Autobiographical Novels and Autofictions from Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction,” European Journal of Life Writing 10 (2021), 1–14.
Artwińska Anna, & Mrozik, Agnieszka, “Generational and Gendered Memory of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe: Methodological Perspectives and Political Challenges,” in Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond, eds. Anna Artwińska and Agnieszka Mrozik, Routledge, 2020, 9–28.
Mrozik, Agnieszka, Akuszerki transformacji. Kobiety, literatura i władza w Polsce po 1989 roku [Midwives of the transformation. Women, literature and power in post-1989 Poland], Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2012, 438 p.
Latest publication
Mrozik, Agnieszka, Architektki PRL-u. Komunistki, literatura i emancypacja kobiet w powojennej Polsce [Female architects of the Polish People’s Republic. Communist women, literature and women’s emancipation in postwar Poland], Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2022, 532 p.
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