Alina Klin
Associate Professor of Teaching in Polish
313-577-3002
313-577-6243 (fax)
411 Manoogian
906 West Warren
Detroit, MI 48201
Media
Department
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
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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)
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Recipient of 2013 FLTC Mini Grant for innovative uses of instructional technology (WSU) (together with Laura Kline, Julie Koehler, Felicia Lucht, and Krysta Ryzewski)
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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”.)
Courses taught by Alina Klin
Winter Term 2023
- POL1020 - Elementary Polish II
- POL2710 - Survey of Polish Culture
- ANT3111 - Digital Storytelling and Ethnic Detroit
- GLS3111 - Digital Storytelling and Ethnic Detroit
- POL3000 - Polish Grammar and Usage
- POL3060 - Medical Polish I
- POL3061 - Medical Polish II
- POL3111 - Digital Storytelling and Ethnic Detroit
- RUS3111 - Digital Storytelling and Ethnic Detroit
Fall Term 2022
- POL1010 - Elementary Polish I
- POL2010 - Intermediate Polish
- POL2710 - Survey of Polish Culture
- POL3060 - Medical Polish I
- POL3061 - Medical Polish II
- POL3800 - Topics in Slavic Studies
- SLA3800 - Topics in Slavic Studies