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Warsaw, 4 Nowy Swiat St. 
room 410 phone: (+48)(22) 55-314-12

Aneta Dybska Ph.D.

Duty hours in the winter semester 2008/2009:

• Tuesday 13.45 - 15.15

Aneta Dybska graduated from the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, in 1998. Her M.A. thesis dealt with The New York Times as a critical voice in the debate over Affirmative Action. In 2005, she received a Ph.D. degree at the Faculty of Modern Languages, UW, for the dissertation titled "Black men's (auto)creations: Constructing gender and race in the social sciences and self writing in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s." In the course of her doctoral studies she obtained a Library Grant at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin (2001) and a Junior Research Grant at Kent State University, Ohio (2002). She is a member of the Polish Association of American Studies. Since 2006, she has worked as an Associate Professor at the Section of Anglo-Saxon Cultures of the Institute of English, where she teaches courses in American culture.

Professional interests:

• cultural studies
• race and ethnicity studies
• gender and queer studies
• urban studies
• concepts of the nation and national identity
• U.S. American nationalisms

Courses offered:

• # 159 Culture of the American Metropolis, 1910 to the present
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• # 153 Slavery in American Culture
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• # 1524 U.S. American nationalisms and conceptualizations of the nation
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• # 2505 Key Concepts in American Cultural Studies
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