Alina Klin

Alina Klin

Associate Professor of Teaching in Polish

313-577-3002

313-577-6243 (fax)

a.klin@wayne.edu

411 Manoogian
906 West Warren
Detroit, MI 48201

 

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Department

Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Alina Klin

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

  • Foreign language acquisition
  • Contemporary Polish society
  • Politics and culture
  • Polish literature and film
  • Cinemas of former Yugoslavia
  • Polish-American culture and history

Research

  • Contemporary Polish society and politics
  • Polish-American culture and history
  • Foreign language acquisition

Education

  • Ph.D., Southern Slavic Literatures, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 1986
  • MA, Slavic Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 1980

Awards and grants

  • Co-recipient (with Krysta Ryzewski, Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan, Felecia Lucht, Laura Kline and Julie Koehler) of a NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. Project Title: Ethnic Layers of Detroit: Experiencing Place through Digital Storytelling (March, 2014)

  • Recipient of 2013 FLTC Mini Grant for innovative uses of instructional technology (WSU) (together with Laura Kline, Julie Koehler, Felicia Lucht, and Krysta Ryzewski)

  • Recipient of 2018, 2012, 2011, 2008 and 2006 FLTC Mini Grant for innovative uses of instructional technology (WSU)

Selected publications

Ideological Fights for the Constitution in Poland
(The paper was presented on October 19, 2016, at the 2016 WSU Fall Humanities Symposium entitled “Ideology”.)

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Courses taught by Alina Klin

Winter Term 2023

Fall Term 2022

Winter Term 2022