Aleksander Fiut
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Aleksander Fiut | |
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 Aleksander Fiut, 2005 | |
| Born | 24 June 1945 Żywiec, Poland |
| Citizenship | Poland |
| Occupations | Literary historian, literary critic, essayist |
Aleksander Fiut (born 24 June 1945) is a Polish literary historian, literary critic and essayist who researched the works of Wilhelm Mach and Czesław Miłosz, among others.
Son of the civil servant Władysław Fiut and Jadwiga née Jakubiec.[1] Between 1959 and 1963, he attended the Nicolaus Copernicus Grammar School in Żywiec.[1][2] Later he studied Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University (UJ) in Kraków and graduated with a master's degree in 1968.[1] He started working at Kraków's public library (Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna).[1] In 1974, he defended his doctoral thesis Twórczość prozatorska Wilhelma Macha (Wilhelm Mach's Prose Works), which was supervised by Tomasz Weiss.[1] In 1987 he obtained a habilitation degree for his study Moment wieczny. O poezji Czesława Miłosza (translated into English as The Eternal Moment: The Poetry of Czesław Miłosz).[1]
In 1996, he was made a state appointed professor and associate professor at the Jagiellonian University.[1] Between 1997 and 2015, he held the Chair of Twentieth-Century Polish Literature at the Institute (from 2004 Faculty) of Polish Studies at UJ.[1]
His research interests include contemporary Polish literature, Central European literature, with emphasis on the intersection of literature and sociology, anthropology and social psychology.[3] He supervised three doctoral dissertations.[4]
He was a member of the Polish Writers Association until August 2020.[5] He was a founding member of the Czesław Miłosz Birthplace Foundation (Fundacja Miejsc Rodzinnych Czesława Miłosza), which was established in 1997 at the University of Kaunas in Lithuania.[1][3]
He became a member of the Slavic Culture Commission and the Literary History Commission of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4] He was a member of the Program Council of the Miłosz Institute at Claremont McKenna College.[3]