Profile
Dr. Malgorzata Pospiech is a writer, documentary filmmaker, journalist and photographer. She obtained her Ph.D. from Wroclaw University where she studied languages, literature, film, and art history. She gained national recognition for her work as a director and writer of a feature documentary about Arthur Penn, the famous American director. Dr. Pospiech made several documentaries for Polish TV, such as, for example, A Generation, which chronicles the plight of Polish people deported to Siberia by the Soviets, as well as short documentaries about Polish artists. In addition, she compiled over 70 interviews on camera with veterans and survivors of WWII which are now housed in archives at the Polish Army Veteran's Association in Manhattan and linked to the official site of Peter Weir's film The Way Back.
As a writer she has been contributing to the top Polish literary magazine for the past 30 years. She has published hundreds of articles, essays, interviews and reviews for both popular and academic publications. She also is an active published translator, including Arthur Penn in Conversations, 1992-1995 (appearing in 2011); A Small Town, the novel nominated for Central Europe Literary Award in 2015; The Seventh Ring ( a novel) and A Notebook (a collection of poems) published in 2016; Ariadna's Labyrinth nominated for Central Europe Literary Award in 2018 and Fog Over the River Styx (2019). Professor Pospiech is in charge of the Polish language and literature program in the Division of Russian and Slavic Studies.