Professor at the Section for Anthropology of the Word. Member of the IKP Urban Studies Team, the Jagiellonian University Avant-Garde Research Centre and the Modernitas centre at the Université Libre in Brussels. Vice-president of the Miron Białoszewski Foundation from 2016 to 2022.
She specializes in Polish literature and art, explores the works of Miron Białoszewski, (neo)avant-garde logo-visual practices, 20th and 21st century literature and art in an (inter)media and urban studies perspective.
Author of the books Kolaż. Awangardowy gest kreacji. Themerson – Buczkowski – Białoszewski [Collage. Avant-garde gesture of creation. Themerson – Buczkowski – Białoszewski, 2007], Proza życia. Mowa, pismo, literatura (Białoszewski – Stachura – Anderman – Redliński – Schubert) [The Prose of Life. Speech, Writing, Literature (Białoszewski – Stachura – Anderman – Redliński – Schubert, 2012], Białoszewski temporalny (czerwiec 1975 – czerwiec 1976) [Temporal Białoszewski (June 1975 – June 1976, 2023]
Co-editor of the yearbook MiroFor and the series „Library of MiroFor”. Co-editor and co-author of the volumes in the „Topo-Graphies” series: „Pulse under the plaster”. Miron Białoszewski’s Warsaw (2013), „Brick Body, Hot Breath”. Leopold Tyrmand’s Warsaw (2015), „100 meters of asphalt”. Marek Hłasko’s Warsaw (2016), „A piece of Blue and Cloud”. Tadeusz Konwicki’s Warsaw (2017). Co-author and co-editor of the anthology Anthropology of verbal creativity (2012) and the volume From aphorism to zine. Genres of verbal creativity (2014), as well as books in the avant-garde/revision series: Avant-Garde/Underground (2018), Politics/Avant-Gardes (2021).
She was a co-curator of the exhibitions Disappearing Landscapes. „A Spatial Tale” by Miron Białoszewski (2016) and Białoszewski – not separated (2022) at the Museum of Warsaw. Co-author of the catalogue of the Museum of Art in Łódź Flashes of History, Fleeting Images. Leopold Buczkowski (2022).
She has directed research projects: “Word creativity in an anthropological perspective: media, genres, practices” (with funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education), “Topo-Graphics: city, map, literature” and “The Unpublished Works of Leopold Buczkowski” (National Program for the Development of the Humanities).
She teaches proseminars and master’s seminars in the anthropology of literature and the anthropology of words, classes in cultural studies Text Analysis, and humanistic perspectives on the study of the city (Urban Studies UW).
Selected publications in English and French:
Agnieszka Karpowicz, Hoża in color: At Home in the avant-garde, „Forum of Poetics” 2024, no. 36, p. 70-83, http://fp.amu.edu.pl/
Agnieszka Karpowicz, Annick Louis, An Experimental Reading: On the French translation of Memoir From the Warsaw Uprising. (The discussion with professor Annick Louis held by Agnieszka Karpowicz), „Pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi” 2023, no. 14, p. 132-142, https://plitonline.it/2023/plit-14-2023-132-142-agnieszka-karpowicz-annick-louis
Agnieszka Karpowicz, Metropolis. Mass … Nature: Paradoxes of the Polish Avant-garde, „Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire” 2022, no. 100, p. 106-114, https://www.rbph-btfg.be/files/RBPH-2022-100-Table-Inhoudstafel.pdf
Agnieszka Karpowicz, La lecture pacifiste, „Annales”, Academie polonaise de science, Paris-Varsovie 2021, vol. 22, p. 145-153, https://paris.pan.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2.-Agnieszka-Karpowicz-La-lecture-pacifiste.pdf
Agnieszka Karpowicz, Themerson’s Car. On Autobiographical Experience in Bayamus, „Czas Kultury”/ Special Issue, 2021, https://czaskultury.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AKarpowicz_ThemersonsCar_CzasKultury_SpecialIssue_2021.pdf
https://difusion.ulb.ac.be/vufind/Record/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/353421/Holdings
https://praxema.tspu.edu.ru/files/praxema/PDF/articles/karpowicz_a._69_86_1_19_2019.pdf
https://www.fabula.org/colloques/document6327.php
https://rcin.org.pl/Content/64224/PDF/WA248_83655_P-I-2524_karpowicz-between_o.pdf