Jakub Kornhauser
Ph.D., a literary theorist, poet, essayist and a translator. Co-founder of the Centre for Avant-Garde Studies at Jagiellonian University, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philology uj. He published several books of poetry and essays; he received Wisława Szymborska Award for Drożdżownia (2015), and Znaczenia Festival Award for Premie górskie najwyższej kategorii (2020). He translated books by, among others, Gherasim Luca, Gellu Naum, Miroljub Todorović, and Henry Michaux. He authored and co-edited a dozen or so monographs on the notion of the avant-garde, most recently: Polityki/awangardy (2021). Editor in Chief of several book series, incl. awangarda/rewizje (Jagiellonian University Press), as well as of the journal Romanica Cracoviensia.
orcid: 0000-0002-8904-9788