John Merchant
Lecturer
Polish and Irish Literature; Polish American Literature
Email: jmerchant@luc.edu
Office: Crown Center 109
Phone: 773-508-2991
Research Interests:
- Polish and Irish Literature
- Polish American Literature
- Literary Translation from Polish
Courses Taught:
- LITR 200 - European Masterpieces (Variable topics)
- LITR 221 - Polish Authors (Variable topics)
- LITR 280 - World Masterpieces
Loyola Service:
- Organized annual October student reading of Dziady, by Adam Mickiewicz
- Faculty reviewer and judge for the annual Undergraduate Student FORUM, a competition of papers on Central and Eastern Europe
- Coordinated visit by International Writing Program (IWP) writers to upper-level MLL language classes, 2016, 2017
- Chair, Faculty Committee Assessment Review of LITR 200-level courses, 2016
- Chair, Faculty Committee Assessment Review of UCLR 100-level courses, 2015
- Organized and presented Polish and Mexican poetry reading, 2014
Service Outside Loyola:
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Book Review: Adam Mickiewicz's Forefather's Eve, Trans. Charles S. Kraszewski, Slavic Review (Pending)
- Book Review: John Guzlowski's Echoes of Tattered Tongues, Polish American Studies Journal, Spring 2017
- Ongoing multi-year translation project, The Polish Reception of Walt Whitman (Title pending), by Marta Skwara, 2016-
- "Anthony Bukoski: An Outpost of Polishness," Polish American Historical Association Conference, Denver, CO, January 2017
- "Teaching Polish Literature in Translation to Non-Polish and Polish Heritage University Students," Polish Teachers, Students, and Parents Conference, Chicago, IL, December 2016
- Public lecture - "The Literature of the Polish American Experience," September 2013, Chopin Theatre.
- Public lecture - "Polish American Poetry: Reading Between the Lines," April 2013, Crown Center.
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2006
- M.A. University of Illinois-Chicago, 1997
- M.A. The Ohio State University, 1994
- B.A. University of Iowa, 1990