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