Adam Kola

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0584-6342                          

Adam F. Kola is a director of the Center of Excellence IMSErt: Interacting Minds, Societies, Environments and associate professor (dr hab., NCU professor) at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, President of the Polish Comparative Literature Association and in 2016-2019 he was Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago. His research has been focused on Eastern and Central European intellectual and literary history of the 19th and 20th centuries and global knowledge transfer. In 2018, he published the book Socialist postcolonialism. Memory Reconsolidation, in 2011 – Europe in Polish, Czech and Croatian Discourse: Critical Reconfiguration, and in 2004 Czech and Russian Slavophilism in Comparison (all in the Polish language). He is an editor of several volumes on philosophy and ethics of interpretation, semi/peripheral humanities and comparative literature. He is the author of about 100 papers in the Polish, Czech, Russian, German and English, and does translations from Czech and English into Polish. More on: https://adamkola.eu/