Urszula Pawlicka, a doctoral candidate from the University of Warmia and Mazury, located in Olsztyn, Poland, has come to the CMDC program as a Fulbright scholar to study electronic literature and cyberculture with Dr. Dene Grigar, becoming the first ELL Visiting Scholar. “Ula,” as she is called, comes with extensive training. After completing the first stage of Polish Philology, she spent a year at the University of Warsaw. Her masters degree was in Journalism and Social Communication, also at the University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn. Her master’s thesis was entitled “Category of communication in Polish cyberpoetry.” She has published one book, Cyberpoetry. Contexts and Characterization, Korporacja Ha!art, Kraków 2012. Her most important articles include:
- Ciało i tożsamość a hipertekst – o wzajemnych relacjach interpretowalności (The Body and Identity and Hypertext – on The Relationship Interpretability) [w:] Nowe zjawiska w języku, tekście i komunikacji IV. Metafory i amalgamaty pojęciowe, pod red. M. Cichmińskiej, I. Matusiak-Kempy, Olsztyn 2012, s. 218-232.
- Judy Malloy: między życiem a hipertekstem (Judy Malloy: Between Life and Hypertext) [w:] Hiperteksty literackie. Literatura i nowe media (Literary Hypertext. Literature and New Media), Korporacja Ha!art, Kraków 2011, s. 59-77.
- Czym jest hipertekst w podtytule utworu Czary i mary (hipertekst) Anety Kamińskiej? (What is The Hypertext in The Subtitle Track “Spells and Mary (Hypertext)” Aneta Kamińska’s?) [w:] Nowe zjawiska w języku, tekście i komunikacji. Kontekst i komunikacja, red. I. Kempa-Matusiak, S. Przybyszewski, Olsztyn 2011, s.170-181.
- Ruch jako podstawa materializacji cyfrowej poezji konkretnej (Move as a Condition of Materializing Digital Concrete Poetry), „Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich” 2012, t. LV, z. 2 (110), Łódź 2012, s. 287-304.
- Kontekst ludyczny w polskiej poezji cybernetycznej (Context Ludic in Polish Cyberpoetry), „Warmińsko-Mazurski Kwartalnik Naukowy”, WSIiE TWP, Olsztyn 2012, nr 3.