Bozena Nowicka McLees
Director, Interdisciplinary Polish Studies
Polish Language and Literature
Email: bmclees@luc.edu
Office: Crown Center 217F
Phone: 773-508-2864
Research Interests:
- 20th Century Polish Literature
- Polish Drama
- Polish Diaspora in America
- Teaching Polish Language in the U.S.
Courses Taught:
- LITR 282 Polish Drama
- LITR 200 Polish Short Story
- LITR 200 Post World War II Polish Literature
- POLS 250-251 Polish Composition and Conversation
Service Outside of Loyola:
- Language Diversity in the USA edited by Kim Potowski, Chapter on Polish in the United States, Cambridge University Press, 2010
- Organized an International Conference on Chopin and Paderewski 2010
- Co-founded the Jan Karski Educational Foundation in Chicago and Fundacja Edukacyjna Jana Karskiego in Warsaw, 2012
- Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) The Skalny Civic Achievement Award, 2011
- Organized the Jan Karski International Conference on Memory and Responsibility, 2014
- Presented the History of Polish Studies Program at Loyola at the Slavic Conference of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, 2014
Education:
- A.B.D. University of Illinois in Chicago (Polish Literature)
- M.A. University of Illinois (Polish Studies)
- B.A. University of Illinois (Marketing, History and Polish)