The Polish Studies Initiative will host Dr. Irena Grudzinska Gross (Princeton University) on Thursday, October 16th. Her talk, "Czeslaw Milosz: The Poet and Writer", will be a meditation on the famous Polish poet's complex actions and writing on war throughout the 20th century.
Irena Grudzinska Gross teaches in the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages at Princeton University. She is the author of Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets (Yale UP, 2009), The Scar of Revolution: Custine, Toqueville, and the Romantic Imagination (U Cal Press, 1991), several edited volumes, as well as a recent selection of her essays published in Honor, Horror i Klasycy ("Honor, Horror, and the Classics," Pogranicze, 2012). She is a former editor of East European Politics and Societies, and her essays on politics and culture appear regularly in the Polish press.
For more information please contact Jessie Labov (labov.1@osu.edu).