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Krzysztof Rowiński @rowinski.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is happening a week from now @tlrhub.bsky.social and on Zoom! Excited to talk about the book with Debbie Lisle and Nick Johnson. Sign-up link below 👇

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Krzysztof Rowiński @rowinski.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption looks at how we talk about failure. I turn to twentieth-century US American, Italian, and Polish examples of cultural production for alternatives to the pervasive narrative of failure as a way to success or moral victory.

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Krzysztof Rowiński @rowinski.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A book I've worked on for close to a decade is finally out next week! 📖🎉 I will be launching it at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts&Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin. Stop by on 6 May if you are around or join us on zoom! @tlrhub.bsky.social @langslitscultures.bsky.social

Book cover of Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film by Krzysztof Rowinski, showing the title against an abstract image of a mix of blue, green, and red

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Krzysztof Rowiński @rowinski.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The book shuttles back and forth between the mid-twentieth century and today, looking at literature and film from the United States, Poland, and Italy and how it can help us think through politics of failure today.

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Krzysztof Rowiński @rowinski.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Failure is everywhere these days, but we still talk about it as a step to success. I argue that we need to think about failure beyond the redemptive lens that dominates the discourse today.

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Krzysztof Rowiński @rowinski.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

My book on failure will be out in April! In Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption, I look at how we talk about failure in public discourse, as well as across film, literature, and performance.

Book cover with title (Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film) and author (Krzysztof Rowiński), against a background of pastel-tone green, blue, and red splotches

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Krzysztof Rowiński @rowinski.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The fifth (and first bilingual) edition of the O'Czytani Polish Literary Festival is a wrap! We packed the house in Biblary's HQ in Inchicore for a meeting with Mariusz Szczygieł and a concert by Cezariusz Gadzina&band. Polish culture is part of multicultural Dublin.

a large crowd listening to Mariusz Szczygieł

organizers of the O'Czytani festival together with Mariusz Szczygieł

a group of people at a writing workshop in the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation

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Mikołaj Pawlak @pawlak-mikolaj.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

An incredibly inspiring discussion about the "nonredemptive failure" concept and Samuel Beckett's work, with Nicholas Johnson (Trinity College Dublin), @debbielisle.bsky.social (Queen's University Belfast) and @rowinski.bsky.social (Trinity Colege Dublin). youtu.be/OnLKU50UGak?...

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Failure Lab UW: Fail Worse / Dublin, 2025 (Nicholas Johnson, Debbie Lisle and Krzysztof Rowiński)

YouTube video by #FailureLabUW

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Krzysztof Rowiński @rowinski.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

thanks, Mikołaj! It was great to have you and Adriana, very interesting presentation!

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Mikołaj Pawlak @pawlak-mikolaj.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

It's weird to say that the failure event you just attended was successful:-/ FAIL WORSE symposium organized and carefully curated by @rowinski.bsky.social @debbielisle.bsky.social & Nicholas Johnson at @langslitscultures.bsky.social was mind-blowing 🤯

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Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at TCD @langslitscultures.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Interdisciplinary symposium | Fail Worse: Rethinking Narrative Redemption in Failure Studies 📅 29-30 May 2025 @tlrhub.bsky.social Book tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/trini... Co-organised with the School of Creative Arts @tcddublin.bsky.social

Collage artwork of women in long skirts and headscarves seated beside a river, overlaid with the title of the conference

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Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

If you happen to be in Oxford on 19 May, please join me for the book launch of Translation Multiples @oxfordcct.bsky.social! It will be a relaxed event & we'll discuss a few texts from my book (hot off the press @princetonupress.bsky.social). Bonus: sandwich lunch! occt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/on-mul...

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Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at TCD @langslitscultures.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Ireland's only Polish literary festival, the O'Czytani Festival takes place in Dublin between 6-8 June. O’Czytani is a celebration of Polish literature, culture, and community. Register to attend the launch on 26 May: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at TCD @langslitscultures.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The festival is co-organised by the Biblary Polish Cultural Centre, Dr Aneta Stępień @maynoothuniversity.ie and Dr @rowinski.bsky.social (Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Trinity College Dublin). @muahi.bsky.social

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Catherine Barbour @cbarbour25.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Book just published in honour of #WomensHistoryMonth - Women's Historical Fiction Across The Globe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Chpt 1 available open access thanks to support of Trinity College Dublin Trust @langslitscultures.bsky.social @historicalfic.bsky.social

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Krzysztof Rowiński @rowinski.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Also, hello world! I just moved here from that other site

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Krzysztof Rowiński @rowinski.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Excellent piece on Polishness and identity in Ireland in the Times: www.irishtimes.com/health/your-... For those who understand Polish, check out Ep. 1 of the Polska.IE podcast, where our student Carmen talks about her in-between identity, with an awesome ending: soundcloud.com/polskaie/odc...

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Polish or Irish? ‘I wanted to fully integrate. But then I realised that you can be both and it’s not a problem’

Children from the ‘1.5 generation’ who were brought by their parents to live in another country, can struggle to belong, as documented in a new book

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