Dr. habil. Grzegorz Maziarczyk
Head of Department, Director of Institute of Literary Studies
Fields of interest: electronic literature, textual materiality, multimodal storytelling, transmediality, utopia/dystopia, representation of consciousness in literature, film and new media
Current research: immersion through touch in digital narratives, narrativity vs. interactivity: “Immersion through Google Street View: Multimodal Representation of Storyworld in Entrances & Exits by Reif Larsen,” Word & Image (2020, forthcoming)
International cooperation: University of Notre Dame, International Society for the Study of Narrative, Utopian Studies Society – Europe
Webpage: https://pracownik.kul.pl/grzegorz.maziarczyk
Contact: grzegorz.maziarczyk[at]kul.pl
Dr. habil. Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
Fields of interest: representations of foodways in literature and film, literature and culture of the American South, American short story, and ethnic/immigrant literatures of the USA, as well as American popular culture
Current research: race and body in American literature, ethnic foodways of the American South, and American culture through the kitchen window
International cooperation: European Association for American Studies (EAAS), Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL), Society for the Study of the American Short Story (SSASS), Southern Studies Forum (SSF), University of Santiago de Compostela
Webpage: https://pracownik.kul.pl/urszula.niewiadomska-flis
Contact: ulanief[at]kul.pl
Patrycja Antoszek, PhD
Fields of interest: contemporary American novel; literary theory; psychoanalytical theories in literary studies; gothic in literature and culture; race in American literature and culture; feminist studies and feminine writing
Current research: contemporary gothic novel; affect in literature; African-American gothic; American short story
International cooperation: European Association for American Studies (EAAS); International Gothic Association (IGA)
Webpage: https://pracownik.kul.pl/patrycja.antoszek
Contact: patrycja.antoszek[at]kul.pl
Ewelina Bańka, PhD
Fields of interest: ethnic American literature, the problem of race in American literature and culture, theories of the border/borderland
Current research: stories and theories of the border(land) in the Indigenous literature of the American Southwest
International cooperation: Native American Research Network, UK; European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
Webpage: https://pracownik.kul.pl/ewelina.banka
Contact: ebanka[at]kul.pl
Dominika Bugno-Narecka, PhD
Fields of interest: the 20th and 21st century literature in English, in particular American and British, word and image relationships in contemporary literature and culture, ekphrasis, intermedia, neobaroque, magical realism, postcolonial studies, forensic imagination, historiographic metafiction, Pynchon studies, Edward Hopper in literature, contemporary mutations and transformations of Sherlock Holmes
Current research: ekphrasis as a neobaroque fold in the contemporary literature in English, word and image in reconstructing and representing the past (ekphrastic historiographic metafiction), representation of the non-verbal in the works of Thomas Pynchon
International cooperation: IAWIS (International Association of Word and Image Studies), Grupo de estudos Intermídia da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Intermedia Research Group, Brazil)
Webpage: https://pracownik.kul.pl/dominika.bugno-narecka
Contact: dominika.bugno-narecka[at]kul.pl
Kamil Rusiłowicz, PhD
Fields of interest: neobaroque, melancholy, space in theory and literature, biopolitics, Fordism
Current research: the poetics of neobaroque space
International cooperation: Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS); European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
Contact: kamilr[at]kul.lublin.pl
Maciej Czerniakowski, MA
Fields of interest: critical posthumanism, speculative posthumanism, transhumanism, motif of rape, body
Current research: rape in the oeuvre of Octavia Butler in the light of critical posthumanism
International cooperation: Beyond Humanism Network
Contact: maciej.czerniakowski[at]kul.pl
Last update: 28.05.2020, hr. 12:39 - Grzegorz Maziarczyk