Prof. Danuta Stasik

E-mail: d.stasik{at}uw.edu.pl
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6885-9714

Position

Professor

Research area

  • The history of Hindi literature and literary criticism
  • Early modern Hindi literary cultures (Avadhi and Braj)
  • The Ramayana tradition in Hindi literature
  • The cult of Rama (Rāmbhakti) in North India
  • Spoken word - written word/orature and literature
  • The Indian diaspora in the West, particularly as represented in Hindi writing

Biographical data

  • 1984 – magister filologii orientalnej (indologia), Wydział Neofilologii, Instytut Orientalistyczny UW (Imigrant indyjski jako uczestnik procesu zderzenia kultur na podstawie powieści Mahendra Bhalli „Po drugiej stronie”)
  • 1990 – doktor nauk humanistycznych w zakresie literaturoznawstwa, Wydział Neofilologii, Instytut Orientalistyczny UW (The Image of Culture Contact in Contemporary Hindi Literature; an Indian Immigrant in Great Britain, Canada and the United States)
  • Rok 2002 – doktor habilitowany nauk humanistycznych w zakresie literaturoznawstwa, Wydział Neofilologii UW (Opowieść o prawym królu. Tradycja Ramajany w języku hindi, Wydawnictwo Akademickie DIALOG, 2000)
  • 2005 – profesor UW
  • 2010 – tytuł naukowy profesora
  • 2019 – profesor zwyczajny

Scholarships, fellowships

  • 1980-1981 – scholarship from the Government of India under the Polish–Indian Cultural Agreement at the Central Institute of Hindi, New Delhi (India)
  • 1987 –British Council scholarship at the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Oriental Studies), Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
  • 1989 – visiting scholar w Wolfson College (Cambridge, Wlk. Brytania)
  • 1992 – visiting scholar w Wolfson College (Cambridge, Wlk. Brytania)
  • 1994 – University Grants Commission (India) scholarship
  • 1995 – visiting scholar at Wolfson College (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
  • 1999 – visiting scholar at Wolfson College (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
  • 2002 – research fellowship at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen under the DAAD Ostpartnerschaften programme

Positions held

  • 2002-2021 – Head of the Chair of South Asian Studies (2000-2001 Acting Head)
  • 2016-2012 – Vice President of the Polish Oriental Society (PTO)
  • 2016-2003 – Editor-in-Chief of "Przegląd Orientalistyczny", the journal of the Polish Oriental Society (PTO)

Additionally

  • Member (re-elected) of the EASAS Executive Council (since 2023)
  • 2023-2018 – President of the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS)
  • 2017-2011 – Head of the CEENIS academic network (Central & Eastern European Network of Indian Studies)
  • 2016-2010 – Member of the EASAS Executive Council
  • 2016-2010 – Editor-in-Chief of the series "Collectanea Orientalia”
  • Member of the Committee of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences PAN (2007-2010, 2011-2014, 2015-2018)
  • Member of the advisory boards of the journals "Pandanus" (Charles University in Prague) and "Orientalia Vilniensia" (Vilnius University)

Awards and Honours

  • 2014 – “Bene Merito” Honorary Badge (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
  • 2009 – Dr George Grierson Award for 2007, presented by the President of India (Kendriya Hindi Sansthan)
  • 2008 – Medal of the National Education Commission
  • 2003 – Vishva Hindi Samman on the occasion of the 7th World Hindi Conference, Paramaribo, Surinam
  • 1999 – Vishva Hindi Samman on the occassion of the 6th World Hindi Conference, London, United Kingdom
  • 1993 – Award for Excellence given by the Indo-Polish Association in New Delhi, India

Membership

Main publications

Single-author monographs

  • The Infinite Story. The Past and Present of the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition in Hindi Literature, Manohar, New Delhi 2009, 319 pages.
  • Język hindi, Wydawnictwo Akademickie DIALOG, 2nd ed., Warszawa 2008, 216 pages.
  • Podręcznik języka hindi. Cz. 1, Wydawnictwo Akademickie DIALOG, 4th ed., Warszawa 2007, 245 pages.
  • Opowieść o prawym królu. Tradycja Ramajany w literaturze hindi, Wydawnictwo Naukowe DIALOG, Warszawa 2000, 350 pages.
  • Podręcznik języka hindi. Cz. II, Wydawnictwo Akademickie DIALOG, 3rd ed., Warszawa 2012, 246 pages.
  • Out of India. Image of the West in Hindi Literature, Manohar, New Delhi 1994, 132 pages.

Co-authored monographs

with Tatiana Rutkowska

  • Zarys historii literatury hindi, Wydawnictwa Naukowe UW, Warszawa 1992, 236 pages.

Edited and co-edited books

  • Oral–Written–Performed: The Rāmāyaṇa Narratives in Indian Literature and Arts, CrossAsia (HASP), Heidelberg 2020. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/530
  • Polish Contributions to South Asian Studies, Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2017.

with Imre Bangha

with Anna Trynkowska

  • Striving for Harmony in Indian Culture and Society, Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2025.
  • War and Peace in Indian Literature and Society, Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2019.
  • Journeys and Travellers in Indian Literature and Art, 2 tomy, Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2018.
  • CEENIS Current Research Series. Vol. 1, Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2013.
  • The City and the Forest in Indian Literature and Art, Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2010.
  • Teaching on India in Central and Eastern Europe, Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2007.
  • India in Warsaw. Indie w Warszawie, A Volume to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Post–War History of Indological Studies at Warsaw University (2003/2004), Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2006.

with Jacek Woźniak

  • Tamil in Warsaw. Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Tamil Studies at the University of Warsaw (2012/2013), Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2014.

with John Brockington

Translations

  • Mangleś Dabral, Wiersze – z j. hindi, „Przegląd Orientalistyczny”, nr 3–4 (259–260), 2016, s. 381–387.
  • Kunwar Narajan Wiersze – a bilingual collection of Hindi poetry with Polish translations, Wydawnictwo Akademickie DIALOG, 2013, 189 pages.
  • Agjej, Śmiech Śanti – from Hindi, „Przegląd Orientalistyczny”, no. 1–2 (241–242), 2012, pp. 93–95.
  • Fez Ahmad Fez (Faiz Ahmad Faiz), Muzyka Szopena gra g – from Urdu, „Przegląd Orientalistyczny”, no. 1–2 (232–233), 2010, p. 90.
  • A.K. Mehrotra, Przedmowa redaktora and Wstęp – from English, A.K. Mehrotra (ed.), Historia anglojęzycznej literatury indyjskiej, Wydawnictwo Akademickie DIALOG, 2007, pp. 7–47.
  • Agjej, Wiersze – from Hindi, „Przegląd Orientalistyczny”, no. 1–2 (212–213), 2005, pp. 95–98.
  • Anita Rau Badami, Prawdziwy bohater – from English, Wydawnictwo Akademickie DIALOG, Warszawa 2004, 374 pages.
  • Ze współczesnej poezji hindi (wiersze Kunwara Narajana i Aśoka Wadźpeji) – from Hindi, „Przegląd Orientalistyczny”, no. 34 (202–203), 2002, pp. 208–212.
  • Kabir, in Praktyki religijne w Indiach, Wydawnictwo Akademickie DIALOG, Warszawa 2001, pp. 97–116 , Wydawnictwo Akademickie DIALOG, Warszawa 2001, pp. 97–116 (additionally, Indological editing of the volume) (from the English language).
  • Mangleś Dabral: Wiersze – from Hindi, „Odra”, no. 2, 1996, pp. 59–60.

In addition, more than 60 articles and book chapters published in magazines and books (in English, Polish, and Hindi). The most recent among them include:

Chapters in monographs

  • From Lueven to 1979 to Osaka 2022, or a Note on the History of ICEMLNI, in Early Modern Literatures of North India: Current Research 2022-2024, Hiroko Nagasaki, Monika Horstmann, Kiyokazu Okita (eds), Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, Heidelberg 2025, pp. 17-30. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1553/chapter/22773
  • The Hindi Noun sāmañjasya: Harmony of Meanings in Culture?, in Striving for Harmony in Indian Culture and Society, D. Stasik, A. Trynkowska (eds), Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, Warszawa 2025, pp. 181-196.

Articles

Guest lectures and seminars

Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (RFN), Free University of Berlin (RFN), Humboldt University of Berlin (RFN), Indira Gandhi National Open University (New Delhi, India), Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi, India), Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India), MS University of Baroda (India), Pakistan Academy of Letters (Pakistan), Pekin University (China), Sahitya Akademi (Delhi, India), University of Allahabad (India), University of Bonn (RFN), University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), University of Delhi (India), University of Hamburg (RFN), University of Hyderabad (India), University of Lausanne (Switzerland), University of Vienna (Austria), Uppsala University (Sweden), Vilnius University (Lithuania).