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zajas.jpg Professor Krzysztof Zajas, PhD., has been employed at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, since 1993. Until September 2004 he was a lecturer in the Department of the Literary Culture of the Borderland. He specializes in the theory and history of literature and translates German literature, focusing on the German poetry of the 20th century. He has published a book on Czeslaw Milosz's poetry Milosz i filozofia [Milosz and Philosophy] (1997). In the period covering 1993-1999 he was a member of the staff of the Department of Literary Theory. From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a lecturer of Polish language and literature in the Institute of Slavic Studies in Salzburg, Austria. He has participated actively in many international academic conferences, e.g.: a symposium on ergonomy (Salzburg, Nov. 1998), "Iwaszkiewicz and the Ukraine" (Kiev, May 2000), a symposium in honor of Czeslaw Milosz's 90th birthday (Vilnius, June 2001), "Literatur und Nationale Identität" (Sept. 2002, Stockholm), the international conference "Time and Space in Literature" (Dyneburg, March 2004). Furthermore, from 1999 to 2004 he was the JU Rector's Representative for Scholarship Funds and supervised, among other things, the procedures of the Queen Jadwiga Fund, offering scholarships for academics from Central and Eastern Europe pursuing their research in Kraków. His academic interests focus on the cultural issues of the of the old Inflants at the meeting of Polish and German culture, as well as the contemporary German drama. For a long time he has been publishing in the theater magazine Didaskalia.

e-mail: krzysztof.zajas@uj.edu.pl