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Tamara Trojanowska

Head of Polish Language

Department of Literature and Slavic Languages

University of Toronto

Tamara Trojanowska graduated the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Received a doctoral fellowship in USA.

During a three-year term she was the Head of Polish Language at the University of Chicago.

While employed on the University of Toronto she went a long way toward establishing Polish Language in a vigorous European Study Program. She entered into cooperation with Jagiellonian University.

She is the coorganizer, together with Michal Markowski and two educational institutions in USA - Indiana University (Bill Johnson) and Ohio State University (Halina Stephan) of an international conference "In Search of Creative Diversity: New Perspectives in Polish Literary and Cultural Studies Abroad."

She possess contacts with Polish Language Departments in Madison and Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Ann Harbor (Michigan), of the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, Harvard University, University of Alberta and University of Kansas and at other institutions.

Polish Language Study at Toronto University enjoys the support and help of Deans, but since 2003 is not financed from university funds. Polish Language can exist only thanks to the Henryk Slaby and Irena Ungar private funds and yearly fundraising by the Committee of Polish Study Support at the University of Toronto.

From: Interview of Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, Nowy Dziennik - Polish Daily News, May 19, 2006.

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