CV | Urszula Pawlicka-Deger

Urszula Pawlicka-Deger
Date of writing the CV: 22.07.2022
Main email contact: pawlickadeger(at)gmail.com
King’s email address: urszula.pawlicka-deger(at)kcl.ac.uk

Research blog: dhinfra.org

ORCID ID, Google Scholar, ResearchGate

Current position

Marie Curie Research Fellow, King’s Digital Lab at King’s College London (1.10.2020 – 30.09.2023)

Education and degrees awarded

Ph.D. in Literary Studies, the Faculty of Humanities, the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland. Ph.D. thesis: “Literature and New Media. Theory and Practice” (with honors).
Graduation date: July 2016
Bachelor’s Degree in Polish Philology at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland.
Graduation date: June 2012
Master’s Degree in Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland.
Graduation date: June 2011
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland.
Graduation date: June 2009

Other education & training

Agile PM. Agile Project Management Practitioner Examination certificate accredited by APMG International and the Agile Business Consortium (DSDM), UK (1 October 2021)
Agile PM. Agile Project Management Foundation Examination certificate accredited by APMG International and the Agile Business Consortium (DSDM), UK (29 September 2021)
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School at the University of Oxford, UK (12-15 July 2021)
Postgraduate Course “Teaching Credentials” at the University of Social Sciences in Lodz, Poland (October 2017 – December 2018)
Postgraduate Course “Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language” at the Polonicum Centre of Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners, the University of Warsaw, Poland (October 2013 – June 2014)
Fulbright Pre-Academic Intensive English Program at the Applied English Center at the University of Kansas, US (June – August 2014)
“Electronic Literature in the Digital Humanities” course at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria, Canada (2-6 June 2014)

Visiting positions

Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. Funding: Vanguard Fellowship of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Autumn 2019, at the University of Birmingham, UK (20 Oct – 24 Nov 2019)
Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, UK. Funding: Willard McCarty Fellowship 2018/2019 of the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, UK (12-26 May 2019)
Department of English at Stony Brook University, New York, US. Funding: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (18 Aug 2015 – 31 Jan 2016)
Electronic Literature Lab, Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at the Washington State University Vancouver, WA, US. Funding: Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program 2014/2015, US (13 Aug 2014 – 15 Feb 2015)

Work experience

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Media at Aalto University, Finland (January 2017 to September 2020)
Member of Research Data Management Group at Aalto University. Support the data management practices of the School of Arts, Design, and Architecture (October 2017 to September 2020)
Lecturer at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Main activities: Teaching at the postgraduate “Studies of Writing Techniques and Presentation of Literary Text” in the Institute of Polish Literature (February – June 2015)
Collaborator in the research project: “Digital Text. Issues of Semiotics, Semantics, and Digital Communication”, funded by National Science Centre in Krakow and run at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. (October 2012 – June 2015)

Awards & fellowships

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2019 awarded by the European Commission, Horizon 2020. Host: King’s Digital Lab, King’s College London, UK.
IAS Vanguard Fellowship 2019 awarded by the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Birmingham. Host: Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK
Willard McCarty Fellowship 2018/2019 awarded and hosted by the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, UK
Fulbright Junior Research Award 2014/2015 awarded by the Polish-American Fulbright Commission, Poland. Host: Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver, WA, US
PhD Students Mobility Program MOST 2012/2013 awarded by the University Accreditation Commission (UAC) in Poland. Host: The Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland

Travel grants

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Travel Grant for the Annual Meeting at Harvard University, Cambridge, US (17-20 March 2016)
DHSI Bursary: Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria, Canada (2-6 June 2014)
Travel grant from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn for attending ELO 2013 “Chercher le Texte: Locating the Text in Electronic Literature” conference, organized by Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) in Paris, France

Teaching & marking

Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London; giving a guest lecture within the course “Introduction to Digital Humanities” (MA students; in English), March 2021
Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London; marking for the course “Digital Publishing” (MA students; in English), February 2021
Department of Media at Aalto University; co-teaching “Topics in Information Visualization and Cultural Analytics” course (MA/PhD students; in English), Spring 2020
Department of Media at Aalto University; co-teaching “Systems of Representation – A culture laboratory” course (MA/PhD students; in English), Spring 2020
Department of Media at Aalto University; teaching “What is an ontology?” class within the “Systems of Representation” course (MA/PhD students; in English), Spring 2019
Institute of Polish Literature at the University of Warsaw; teaching “Genres of Digital Literature” course at the postgraduate “Studies of Writing Techniques and Presentation of Literary Text” (Postgraduate students; in Polish), Spring 2015
Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw; co-teaching courses: “Comparative Media Studies”, “Poetics and Comparative Semiotics”, and “Comparative Analysis” (BA/MA students; in Polish), Autumn 2012 – Spring 2013
Polish Philology Department at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn; teaching courses: “Literature and Popular Culture”, “Literature and New Media”, and “Literature in the Internet” (BA/MA students; in Polish), Autumn 2011 – Spring 2015

Other academic merits

Reviewer, Routledge, Publisher of Professional & Academic Books (August-September 2021)
Member of the Executive Board of Global Outlook::Digital Humanities, a Special Interest Group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (from Jan 2021)
Member of the Critical Infrastructure Studies collective (from Nov 2020)
Member of Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH) Translation Board, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) (From June 2019 – present)
Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly special issue: “Lab and Slack. Situated Research Practices in Digital Humanities” (2020, 14.3), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/3/index.html
Reviewer, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities journal, Oxford University Press (October 2019 to present)
Reviewer, Digital Humanities Quarterly journal, ADHO (May 2019 to present)
Member of the ARTS Creative Practices ICT-working team at Aalto University (Jan – Oct 2020)
Web editor, Research Data Management and Open Science website of Aalto University (From April 2019 – Oct 2020)
Reviewer, Local Scientific Committee of Hybrid Labs Symposium at Aalto University (March – April 2018)

Talks

Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, Introduction to the “Interrogating Global Traces of Infrastructure” workshop (the Digital Humanities & Critical Infrastructure Studies Workshop Series) – lead organiser of the event. (18 November 2021)
U. Pawlicka-Deger, Introduction to the “Infrastructural Interventions” workshop (the Digital Humanities & Critical Infrastructure Studies Workshop Series) – lead organiser of the event (21-22 June 2021)
U. Pawlicka-Deger, Respondent to the talk “Laboratory Life in the Humanities: Computation, Criticism & Collaboration” by Mark Algee-Hewitt (Stanford) at the UCLDH/CESTA Joint Seminar Series (22 June 2021)
U. Pawlicka-Deger, speaker in the session Humanities Labs: Histories and Futures discussing the historical role of labs within the humanities and their future purpose during the “Engaged Humanities Day” (7 May 2021) organised by Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
U. Pawlicka-Deger, “Why Study Laboratories in the Digital Humanities?”. The talk at the workshop “Rebuilding Laboratories”. The Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK – lead organiser of the event (19 November 2019)
U. Pawlicka-Deger, “Place Matters: Exploring New Sites of the Humanities Practices”. The Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK (13 November 2019)
U. Pawlicka-Deger, “A Laboratory as Critical Infrastructure in the Humanities”. The keynote at the workshop “Humanities Laboratories: Critical Infrastructures and Knowledge Experiments”. The Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, UK. (23 May 2019)
U. Pawlicka-Deger and M. Oiva, “Lab and Slack. Situated Research Practices in Digital Humanities”. Digital Humanities Research Seminar at the Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (Heldig), University of Helsinki (04 April 2019)
U. Pawlicka, “Mapping the Humanities and Media Labs”, DH Aalto seminar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University (07 February 2018)
U. Pawlicka, “The Laboratory Turn in the Humanities”. The Department of Media, Aalto University (03 October 2017)
U. Pawlicka, “Visualizing Electronic Literature Collections”. Digital Humanities Research Seminar at the Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities, the University of Helsinki (10 February 2017)
U. Pawlicka, “The Periodization of Theory of Electronic Literature”, the Creative Media and Digital Culture, Washington State University Vancouver WA, U.S. (4 February 2015)

Conference presentations (selected)

Urszula Pawlicka-Deger & Christopher Thomson, Digital Humanities Laboratories: Communities of/in practice, organising and chairing the panel discussion at at the DHA2021, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Conference “Ka Renarena Te Taukaea - Creating Communities” host by Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha - the University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand (23 November, 2021).
U. Pawlicka-Deger, Laboratory Ethnography Beyond Science: Introduction to the Study of Knowledge Production in Digital Humanities. Conference presentation at the Making of the Humanities IX in Barcelona organised by the Society for the History of the Humanities and hosted by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) together with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). (20 September 2021)
U. Pawlicka-Deger, “Ethnography of Laboratory in Digital Humanities: Methodological Reflections”, DHSI 2021 Conference and Colloquium, the University of Victoria, Canada (7 June 2021).
U. Pawlicka-Deger, “Infrastructure as the Origin of Inequities: A Case of Global Digital Humanities”. Global Digital Humanities Symposium, Michigan State University, U.S. (12-15 April 2021)
U. Pawlicka-Deger, “Mapping a History of the Humanities and Media Labs”, Global Digital Humanities Symposium, Michigan State University, U.S. (21-22 March 2019)
U. Pawlicka, “The Emergence of Laboratories in the Humanities: Impetus, Implementation, and Impact”, the Society for the History of the Humanities’ Annual Meeting “The Making of the Humanities VI”, University of Oxford, Somerville College, UK. (28 – 30 September 2017)
U. Pawlicka, “(Digital) Humanities Labs in Non-Western Contexts”, Global Digital Humanities Workshop, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (29 – 30 May 2017)
U. Pawlicka, “Bringing Categories From Science into Humanities Practice: The Implications for the Public Humanities”, the American Comparative Literature Association’s Annual Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S. Seminar: ”Public Humanities in the Digital Age” (17 – 20 March 2016)
U. Pawlicka, “Literary Margins and Non-Marginal Changes. Electronic Literature, Intermediation and Perceptual Changes”, International Conference “Literary Margins and Digital Media”, the Academia Europaea Knowledge Hub Wroclaw and the University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland (15 – 17 April 2015)
U. Pawlicka, “Literature and New Media. Transdisciplinary Research”, Polish Congress of Language Teaching, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (23 – 28 November 2013)

Scholarly publications (selected)

U. Pawlicka-Deger, Feasibility documents as critical structuring objects: An approach to the study of documents in digital research production, “Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies”, July 18, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221111073
U. Pawlicka-Deger, Infrastructuring digital humanities: On relational infrastructure and global reconfiguration of the field, “Digital Scholarship in the Humanities” (2022, 37.2), pp. 534–550. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab086
U. Pawlicka-Deger, Laboratory: A New Space in Digital Humanities, in: People, Practice, Power. Digital Humanities outside the Center. Debates in the Digital Humanities Series, ed. A. McGrail, et al., University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2021.
U. Pawlicka-Deger, Place Matters: Thinking about Spaces for the Humanities Practices, “Arts and Humanities in Higher Education” (2021, 20.3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022220961750
U. Pawlicka-Deger, A Laboratory as the Infrastructure of Engagement: Epistemological Reflections, “Open Library of Humanities” (2020, 6.2). p.24. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.569.
U. Pawlicka-Deger, The Laboratory Turn: Exploring Discourses, Landscapes, and Models of Humanities Labs, “Digital Humanities Quarterly” (2020, 14.3), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/3/000466/000466.html
U. Pawlicka, Data, Collaboration, Laboratory: Bringing Concepts from Science into Humanities Practice, “English Studies” 98.5 (2017): 526-541. Doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2017.1332022

Memberships:

Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA)
The Europeana Network Association (ENA)
Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH)
Research Data Alliance (RDA)

Digital literary artwork
Digital literary art project “Oczy tygrysa” (Eyes of the Tiger): http://ha.art.pl/czyzewski/. It is a digital adaptation of the avant-guard poetry (formism) of Tytus Czyżewski, one of the main representatives of Polish futurism at the early 20th century and founder of formism whose work anticipates digital and interactive narratives. This project was included in the Electronic Literature Collection, vol. 3. Cambridge, MA: Electronic Literature Organization (2016), http://collection.eliterature.org/3/work.html?work=oczy-tygrysa.

Linguistic skills
Mother Tongue: Polish
Other Language: English (fluent), Turkish (intermediate)

Interests and activities
Digital media, digital humanities, knowledge studies, open science, contemporary literature, feminism, politics, higher education, Turkish language, landscape photography, traveling, yoga