Marian Stala
Marian Stala is a literary critic, historian and columnist, professor at Jagiellonian University.
Biography
The son of Władysława Stala and Maria née Krzos, accountants. He attended high school in Tarnobrzeg and passed matura in 1971. He enrolled at the Jagiellonian University to study Polish philology. He graduated with a master's degree in 1976 and in that same year started working as an assistant at the Jagiellonian University. He used pen names Konrad Lichtenberg and Władysław Szreniawa-Rzecki. Between 1982 and 1985 he was a literary director at the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków. His research focused at Young Poland poetry. In 1983 he earned doctorate upon thesis Metaforyzacja w liryce Młodej Polski. Teoria i praktyka supervised by. In 1983-89 he co-edited the spoken magazine “NaGłos”.He collaborated with underground magazines: Arka, Puls, Brulion. In 1987, he became a regular contributor to Tygodnik Powszechny, where he began publishing reviews and articles; in 1998–2000, he headed the culture section.
In 1995 he obtained habilitation at the Jagiellonian University upon the thesis Pejzaż człowieka. Młodopolskie myśli i wyobrażenia o duszy, duchu i ciele.
He received Kościelski Award and . From 2006 until 2008 he was a member of Nike Award jury.
He was a head of the Department of the History of Positivist and Young Poland Literature at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University. From 2013, he has been a member of the.