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Anna Turczyn, PhD

Anna Turczyn, PhD

literary theorist, translator. She graduated Polish philology at Jagiellonian University with distinction. She has been employed at Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities of Polish Studies Faculty at JU since 2007. She completed scholarship at the Université Stendhal (Grenoble, France) and the Université de Bourgogne (Dijon, France). In 2006‒2009 completed a Foundation for Polish Studies scholarship (prof. Michał Paweł Markowski’s „Mistrz” [Master] program). In 2021 she defended with distinction a PhD dissertation devoted to Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalysis. She published in edited volumes and academic journals (i.e. “Teksty Drugie” [Second Texts]). She translated books by Marc Augé, Roland Barthes, Pascale Casanova, Maurice Godelier, Julia Kristeva, Paul Ricœur. She is a regular collaborator for Krakow Circle of New Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis (Nouvelle École Lacanienne de Psychanalyse), member of the European University Network of Psychoanalysis (Réseau Universitaire Européen de Psychanalyse). Author of the book "Lacan: A Reading Project" (Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press 2023, pp. 406). Conducts classes on psychoanalysis (Psychoanaliza: krytyka podmiotu) as well as on contemporary literature.

ORCID: 0000‒0003‒1611‒5139.

Contact: anna.turczyn@uj.edu.pl

Academic interests: theory and history of psychoanalysis, analysis of literary discourses, literary criticism, meta-theory in literature.

Courses for students: „Czytanie Freuda” [Reading Freud] (Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, 2014/2015), „Psychoanaliza” [Psychoanalysis] (Faculty of Theatre Directing, AST National Academy of Theatre Arts, 2013/2014). Currently: "Psychoanaliza: krytyka podmiotu" (option), "Contemporary Literature" (in the "Cultural Texts" direction).