Krzysztof E.

Borowski
Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Kansas
Wescoe Hall, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2122
Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7594, USA

(512) 954-1983
borowski@ku.edu
kansas.academia.edu/borowski

PhD student, Instructor of Polish, Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures

Education
PhD: Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2014
MA: Serbian and Croatian Philology, 2011, University of Wrocaw. Thesis: Mikrojzyki sowiaskie
ze szczeglnym uwzgldnieniem molizyjskiego; Advisor: Henryk Jaroszewicz.
BA: Slavic Philology, 2009, University of Wrocaw.

Employment
2014

Instructor, University of Kansas

Publications
2013

Mikrojzyki sowiaskie a wspczesna typologia jzykw. Noviny

Slawia no. 3 (4/2013): 3-6. Sosnowiec: Instytut Filologii Sowiaskiej
Uniwersytetu lskiego.

[forthcoming]

Condemned To Extinction. Molise Slavic 100 Years Ago And Now. [The
Eighth Annual Slavic Linguistics Society Conference Proceedings]

[forthcoming]

O jzyku literackim molizaskich Sowian. [Poznaskie Studia

Slawistyczne]

[in preparation]

Linguistic Onomatology: The Case of Molise Slavic (Molise Croatian).

[in preparation]

Ethnolinguistic Leveling. Molise Slavic and Burgenland Croatian as

Examples of Multiple Identities.

Krzysztof E. Borowski

borowski@ku.edu

Languages
All skills: Polish (native), English (4+), Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian/Montenegrin (4), Italian (3+),
Russian (2+), German (2+), Spanish (1+).
Some speaking ability, reading skill ans structural knowledge: French, Czech, Slovak, Old
Church Slavic.
Structural knowledge and reading ability: Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene,
Belarusian, Rusyn, Silesian, Molise Slavic, Latin.

Presentations
2014

'Surely No Adonis': Cognitive-Semantic Leveling in Dead Souls as a Means of

Decoding Translator's Cognitive Imagery. 2nd Annual Introduction to Graduate
Studies Conference, 12/6/2014, Lawrence, KS (USA).

2014

Hyphenated Identity. Molise Slavic and Burgenland Croatian as Examples of

Ethnolinguistic Leveling. 12th Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics,
11/15/2014, Columbus, OH (USA).

2014

Introduction to Poland. REES 110 Introduction to Russia and Eastern Europe,

9/25/2014, University of Kansas.

2014

What's In a Name? Molise Croatian vs. Molise Slavic. Slavic Linguistics Society
2014 Ninth Annual Meeting, 9/20/2014, Seattle (USA).

2013

The Less, The Better? Molise Croatian and its Users 100 Years After Their
Idioms Prophesized Extinction. Slavic Linguistics Society 2013 Eighth Annual
Meeting, 9/26/2013, Szczecin (Poland).

2010

Mikrojzyki sowiaskie a wspczesna typologia jzykw. 20 lat mino.

Sowiaszczyzna na pocztku XXI wieku conference, 4/21/2010, Sosnowiec
(Poland).

Krzysztof E. Borowski

borowski@ku.edu

Conferences attended
2014

2nd Annual Introduction to Graduate Studies Conference, 6 December 2014,

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (USA).

2014

Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies 2014 Conference,
20-23 November 2014, San Antonio, TX (USA).

2014

12th Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics, 14-15 November 2014,

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (USA).

2014

Slavic Linguistics Society 2014 Ninth Annual Meeting, 19-21 September 2014,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (USA).

2014

Digital Humanities Forum 2014, 12-13 September 2014, University of Kansas,

Lawrence, KS (USA).

2013

Slavic Linguistics Society 2013 Eighth Annual Meeting, 25-27 October 2013,
University of Szczecin, Szczecin (Poland).

2010

20 lat mino. Sowiaszczyzna na pocztku XXI wieku, 20-22 April 2010,

University of Silesia in Katowice, Sosnowiec (Poland).

Lectures/Talks
2010

Status socjolingwistyczny polskiego i serbskiego w rodzinie jzykw

sowiaskich [Polish and Serbian: A Sociolinguistic Status Among Slavic
Languages], (Comparative Linguistics, University of Wrocaw, 2010).

2010

Jeli nie mikrojzyk, to co? [If Not a Microlanguage, Then What?],

(MA Seminar, University of Wrocaw, 2010).

2010

Wprowadzenie do molizaskiego [Introduction to Molise Slavic],

(MA Seminar, University of Wrocaw, 2010).

Krzysztof E. Borowski

borowski@ku.edu

Workshops/Seminars
2014

Setting Expectations & Communicating Feedback, 9/26/2014, University of

Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence, Lawrence, KS (USA).

2014

Web Data 101: Making the most of data on the web, Digital Humanities Forum
2014 conference, 9/12/2014, University of Kansas, Lawrence,
KS (USA).

2014

Your Culture and Your Students: Presenting a Confident Persona in Your Class,
Lab, or Studio, 9/12/014, University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence,
Lawrence, KS (USA).

2014

Improving Research Impact and Visibility, 9/8/2014, University of Kansas,

Lawrence, KS (USA).

2014

Starting Out: Understanding KU Students, 9/5/2014, University of Kansas

Center for Teaching Excellence, Lawrence, KS (USA).

Grants/Fellowships
2010 2011

Study abroad, Universit degli studi di Verona, Italy (fall semester)

2007 2010

School of Philology Dean's Scholarship

Academic interests
Sociolinguistics, Slavic Microlanguages, Language Policy and Politics, Language Shift, Language
Preservation, Comparative Linguistics, Contact Linguistics, Polish Dialectology, Indo-European,
Old Church Slavic, Technology in Teaching of Foreign Languages.

Courses taught
2014

PLSH 104 Elementary Polish (5 credit hours)

Fall 2014, University of Kansas (total of 9 students)

Memberships and affiliations

2014

Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

2013

Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS)

Service
2014

Manager of KU Polish Club Facebook page