Ewa Antoszek

ORCID: 0000-0002-2714-3031

Degrees:

2010 – PhD, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Dissertation: “Out of the Margins: Identity Formation in Contemporary Chicana Writings”

2002 - M.A. Degree in English (American Studies)
M.A. thesis: “Black Experience of Femininity, Motherhood, and Political Activism in the Autobiographical Writings of the 1960s.”

2002 - Diploma in American Studies, Smith College, MA, USA

Research interests:

Membership in scholarly societies:

PAAS; January 2021 – January 2024, on the Board of PAAS, the Treasurer
EAAS
Border Studies Center at University of Gdansk
MESEA
HISPA USA
Salzburg Global Seminar

Grants and fellowships:

2023 Erasmus+ MigraMedia
December 2022 (executed in August 2023) Miniatura 6 (the grant of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education): “Hostipitality and Conviviality: The U.S.-Mexico Border Artivism Challenging Exclusionary Practices”
July 5-18, 2022 NAWA Prom research grant –UCCS, USA
March 2013 search query Agnes Scott College
September 27 – October 1, 2012 Salzburg Seminar American Studies Association
Symposium: Resistance and Readiness: Immigration, Nativism and the Challenge of Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the US and Europe Today.
December 3-12, 2009 search query at the John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität Berlin
June 2009 – June 2010 – doctoral scholarship form Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
January 20 – February 21, 2007 a stipend from the John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie, Universität Berlin
2005 July-September, EAAS Transatlantic Grant for postgraduate students, UCLA, Chicano Studies Research Center, Los Angeles, CA.
July 13 – 31, 2003 “Democracy and Diversity. Graduate Summer Institute” organized by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School University, New York, NY, USA
August 2001 – May 2002 Diploma in American Studies, Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA
1999 – 2002 UMCS grant financing graduate studies

Awards:

October 2023 – The Inaugural Award of the Rector of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
October 2022 – The Award of the Rector of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University for Outstanding Professional Performance and an Article in the Journal of a High Impact Factor
September 2022 – the Award of the Rector of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University for the 20th Anniversary of Professional Activity
October 2021 - The 5th degree award of the Rector of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
October 2013 – The 2nd degree award of the Rector of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

Major Publications:

“Hostipitality and Solidarity in Ivannia Villalobos-Vindas’ Casa en tierra ajena” in Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture: Building Bridges, Not Walls. Esther Álvarez-López and Andrea Fernández-García, eds. Routledge, 2023. pp. 134-149 www
“U.S.–Mexico Border Re-Visions: Border Artivism in Time and Space” Roczniki Humanistyczne Vol 70 No 11 (2022) “Time and/in Text.” 7-20 DOI
“Challenging the Border Doxa: Selected Examples of Border Artivism.” Res Rhetorica 9 (2):121-37. DOI
“Revisiting La Frontera: Consuelo Jiménez Underwood and Ana Teresa Fernández” in Latinidad at the Crossroads: Insights into Latinx Identity in the Twenty-First Century. Amanda Ellen Gerke and Luisa María González Rodríguez, eds. Brill Rodopi, 2021. pp. 135-151
“Immigration and the Expanding U.S. Southern Border: Casa en tierra ajena (2016).” European Journal of American Studies. 16-1. Spring 2021
“La Frontera Re-visited: Consuelo Jiménez Underwood’s Borderlines Series” in El Mundo Zurdo 7: Selected Works from the 2018 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua. eds. Sara A Ramirez, Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez, Sonia Saldívar-Hull. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2019.
“When Personal Becomes Political: M. Jenea Sanchez Documenting Migration from Mexico.” Polish Journal for American Studies, 2019.
“Borderlands Tales: Representations of the U.S.-Mexico Border in The Bridge (2013-2014).” Res Rhetorica Vol 5, No 2 (2018).
“The U.S.-Mexico Border as a Palimpsest in Ana Teresa Fernández’s Art. Polish Journal for American Studies,” Vol. 12 (Spring 2018). 197-210.
Crossing the Borders of Tradition: Alma López’s Our Lady (1999) and Our Lady of Controversy II (2008) in Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature 41(2), 2017, pp. 98-111.
“Contested Spaces/Striated Spaces: Representations of the Border in Reyna Grande’s The Distance Between Us: A Memoir.” Roczniki Humanistyczne nr LXIV/2016 zeszyt 11: Anglica. pp. 135-146.
A Review of Cities, Borders, and Spaces in Intercultural American Literature and Film and Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture: Static Heroes, Social Movements and Empowerment by Ana Ma Manzanas and Jesús Benito. European Journal of American Studies, 2016-1.
“Various Expressions of Wild Zones: Chicana Identity in Selected Productions by Mexican-American Female Rap and Hip Hop Artists.” In American Wild Zones: Space, Experience, Consciousness. Edited by Jerzy Kamionowski and Jacek Partyka. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2016. pp. 105-116.
Cinematic Representations of Homegirls: Echo Park vs. Hollywood in Allison Anders’s Mi Vida Loca. In Polish Journal for American Studies. Vol. 9 (2015). 133-150.
A Review of Viviana Díaz Balsera and Rachel A. May, eds. La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence. In European Journal of American Studies. 2015-2.
“La Línea vs. La Frontera – Representations of the Border in Grande’s Across a Hundred Mountains.” In A View from Elsewhere: Proceedings of the International Conference, June 20–23, 2014, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Edited by Marcel Arbeit and Roman Trušník. Olomouc: Palacký University Olomouc, 2014. 195–214.
“Transnational Identity Formation in Cisneros’s Caramelo, or Puro Cuento.” In Crossing the Borders of Imagination, ed. María del Mar Ramón Torrijos, Instituto Franklin de Estudios Norteamericanos, Universidad de Alcalá: Madrid, 2014. pp. 63-76.
“Constructing Nomadic Identities – The Role(s) of the Border in Contemporary Chicana Literature” in Americascapes: Americans in/and their diverse sceneries, eds.Ewelina Bańka, Mateusz Litwiński, Kamil Rusiłowicz, Wydawnictwo KUL, 2013, pp. 123-133.
Inne Bębny: różnica i niezgoda w literaturze i kulturze amerykańskiej (Different Drums: Difference and Dissent in American Literuture and Culture) ed. Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2013.
Out of the Margins: Identity Formation in Contemporary Chicana Writings, Peter Lang 2012.
“Re-constructing the Matrix – Negotiating Chicana Lesbian Identity in Terri de la Peña’s Novels” in In Other Words: Dialogizing Postcoloniality, Race and Ethnicity, eds. Ewa B.Luczak, Justyna Wierzchowska, Joanna Ziarkowska, Peter Lang: 2012, pp.149-160.
“Marianismo and Malinchismo: the Role of Sexuality in the Production of Disfigured Images of Chicanas in Face of an Angel by Denise Chávez” in (Mis)reading America. American Dreams, Fictions and Illusions, eds. Jerzy Durczak and Paweł Frelik. Universitas, 2011.
“Journeying in: Self-definition Travels in Selected Works by Viramontes and Cisneros” in Selected Papers in British and American Literature and Culture. Conference Proceedings, eds. Piotr Skurowski and Mirosław Aleksander Miernik. Instytut Anglistyki UW, 2009 pp. 37-53.
Review of Marc Priewe’s Writing Transit: Refiguring National Imaginaries in Chicana/o Narratives in AAA Band 333 (2008), heft 1 pp. 159- 63.
“John Fowles’s The Magus as a Postmodernist Novel” in The Craft of Interpretation: The English Canon, eds. Anna Kędra-Kardela and Leszek S. Kolek, Chełm 2007.
“Being a Chicana – Moving Forward While Looking Back” in Conformity and Resistance in America, eds. Jacek Gutorow and Tomasz Lebiecki. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
“The City as a Place of Dialogue, Negotiation and Struggle in Terri de la Peña and Mona Ruiz” in Lubelskie Materiały Neofilologiczne Nr 29, 2006.
“Redefining Chicana Womanhood, Family and Community in Terri de la Peña’s L.A. Novels” in Messages, Sages, and Ages. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on British and American Studies. Editura Universităţii Suceava, 2006.

Editorial boards:

editorial board of the Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature series, Brill.
New Horizons in English Studies (a journal published by Maria Curie-Sklodowska University). Section editor (Culture and Media)

Guest lectures:

June 22, 2023 –guest lecture at Universität Duisburg Essen, “The U.S.-Mexico Border Artivism: Challenging Hostipitality, Forwarding Conviviality”
June 2, 2023 – guest lecture at the Catholic University of Lublin, “Border Artivism
May 11, 2023 – guest lecture at the Catholic University of Lublin, “Borders, Fences, Walls: Practising Hostipitality”
May 4, 2023 – guest lecture at the UCCS, “The U.S-Mexico Border Artivism: from Hostipitality to Conviviality”
April 23, 2021- guest lecture at the Catholic University of Lublin, ““So far from God, so close to the United States:” Mexican-American Stories and Legacies”
March 8, 2018 – guest lecture at the Catholic University of Lublin, “Contested Space of the U.S.-Mexico Border”
June 2014 Visiting professor at University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu

Guest lectures – organized:

November 24, 2022 – Prof. Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis: “What is Eating America?”
February 2, 2023 – dr Tomasz Jacheć: "Maybe I Destroyed the Game, or (…)”: Evolution of the NBA Star