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Konsultacje w semestrze zimowym:
wtorek, 12.00-13.00 (Teams)
środa, 9.00-9.45 (p. 531)
Stopnie naukowe:
dr – 2011 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University – Women at Cultural Crossroads: Female Body and Sexuality in South Asian American Literature
mgr – 2003 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University – Native American Woman in Her Own Eyes: Portrayal of Women in the Works of Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, and Mary Crow Dog
Zainteresowania naukowe:
- literatura mniejszości etnicznych w USA, w tym literatura autorów/ek polskiego pochodzenia
- ciało i seksualność w literaturze i kulturze amerykańskiej
- miasto w literaturze i kulturze amerykańskiej
Członkostwo w organizacjach naukowych:
- Secretary General w European Association for American Studies, 2024-2026
- przedstawicielka Polskiego Towarzystwa Studiów Amerykanistycznych w European Association for American Studies, 2022-2028
- członkini the Steering Committee of the European Association for American Studies Women's Network (women.eaas.eu/members.php) i członkini Rady Redakcyjnej pisma WiN, 2019-2023
- członkini Rady Redakcyjnej czasopisma Polish Journal for American Studies, 2015-2024
- członkini Polish American Historical Association
Stypendia i granty:
2023-2025 - grant badawczy NCN OPUS na realizację projektu "Sweet Home Chicago? Wietrzne miasto a amerykańscy pisarze polskiego pochodzenia"
2021 - stypendium Fundacji Kościuszkowskiej na prowadzenie badań w Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
2009 – stypendium biblioteczne w JFK Institute Library, Freie University, Berlin
2007 – HCA Spring Academy, University of Heidelberg
Główne publikacje:
"You Are What You Eat: Narrating Ethnic Identity Through Food in Polish Chicagoan Writing." Polish Journal for American Studies, vol. 18, 2024, pp. 211-221.
“Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Interview with John Z. Guzlowski.” European Journal for American Studies, vol. 18, no. 4, 2023.
“Memory, Identity, Belonging: Narratives of Eastern and Central European Presence in North America.” European Journal for American Studies, vol. 18, no. 4, 2023. (with Mateusz Świetlicki)
“Generation Matters: Diasporic Reality and Myth-Making in Gurinder Chadha’s Acting Our Age and What’s Cooking?” Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha, edited by Shilpa Bhat Daithota. Lexington Books, 2022, 119-135.
“Bharati Mukherjee.” Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction. Edited by Patrick O’Donnell. Wiley and Sons, 2022.
“Race, Violence, and the City: Chicago’s Black Urbanity in Contemporary American Film and Literature.” Polish Journal for American Studies, vol. 15, Fall 2021, pp. 291-302. (co-authored with Zbigniew Mazur)
“(Non)Places of Bangalore: Where the East Meets the West in Bharati Mukherjee’s Miss New India.” The Polish Journal for American Studies, vol. 13, Spring 2019, pp. 83-90.
“Brownstones with Stories to Tell: Houses in Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude.” Roczniki Humanistyczne, vol. LXVII, no. 11, 2019, pp. 87-94.
Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture. Peter Lang, 2019. (co-edited with Julia Nikiel)
“Corporeality and Searching for Home in Bharati Mukherjee’s Fiction.” Beyond Trishanku: Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women’s Writing, ed. Shilpa Bhat Daithota. Lexington Books, 2018. 145-154.
Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture. Peter Lang, 2017. (co-edited with Julia Nikiel)
“Text, Image and Sound: Artistic Tiers in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Queen of Dreams.” Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture, eds. Izabella Kimak and Julia Nikiel. Peter Lang, 2017. 155-162.
“On Geographical and Metaphorical (Fault) Lines: Immigration, Acculturation and Generation Gap in South Asian American Women’s Fiction.” Roczniki Humanistyczne LXIII (2015): 251-260.
“A bridge that seizes crossing”: Art, Violence and Ethnic Identity in Meena Alexander’s Manhattan Music. Polish Journal for American Studies 8 (2014): 149-166.
“Book/Movie/Installation: The Interpenetration of the Literary and the Visual in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega.” Visuality and Vision in American Literature. Eds. Zbigniew Maszewski, Weronika Łaszkiewicz and Tomasz Sawczuk. Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, 2014. 91-98.
Bicultural Bodies: A Study of South Asian American Women’s Fiction. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013.
Inne bębny: Różnica i niezgoda w literaturze i kulturze amerykańskiej. Eds. Ewa Antoszek, Katarzyna Czerwiec-Dykiel and Izabella Kimak. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2013.
“Konflikt pokoleń czy wolność artystycznego wyboru? Twórczość Jhumpy Lahiri wobec kwestii etniczności w literaturze hindusko-amerykańskiej.” Inne bębny: Różnica i niezgoda w literaturze i kulturze amerykańskiej. Eds. Ewa Antoszek, Katarzyna Czerwiec-Dykiel and Izabella Kimak. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2013.
“Bharati Mukherjee and the Postcolonial Predicament: Looking Back in The Holder of the World.” In Other Words: Dialogizing Race, Postcoloniality, and Ethnicity. Eds. Ewa Łuczak, Justyna Wierzchowska and Joanna Ziarkowska. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2012.
“Americans Misreading (Other) Americans: Racial Subjects in the post-9/11 US in Two South Asian American Novels”. (Mis)Reading America: American Dreams, Fictions and Illusions. Eds. Jerzy Durczak and Paweł Frelik. Cracow: Universitas, 2011.
“Abha Dawesar”. The Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature. Ed. Seiwoong Oh. New York: Facts on File, 2007.
“Shaila Abdullah”. The Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature. Ed. Seiwoong Oh. New York: Facts on File, 2007.
Inne:
- tłumaczenia polski-angielski/angielski-polski