Dominika Oramus Ph.D.

Dominika Oramus was born in Warsaw in 1972 (as Dominika Materska) and was educated at the English Department, University of Warsaw. In the 1990s she wrote reviews, interviews and essay for Polish weekly press and literary magazines. She graduated in 1996 and in 1999 her thesis 'Ways of Pleasure'. Angela Carter's 'Discourse of Delight' in her Fiction and Non-fiction written under the supervision of prof. dr hab. Jacek Wiśniewski was accepted for the doctorate in Literary Studies at the University of Warsaw. She teaches there at the Department of English Literature and currently is working on a critical study 'Grave New World'. The Decline of the West in the Fiction of J.G. Ballard. In 2004 she published a more popular critical book Stacja kontroli chaosu. Postacie i zjawiska współczesnej fantastyki. The seminars she teaches include: # John Fowles; # James Joyce; # Close Reading of James Joyce's Ulysses; # Narrative techniques in the 20th century fiction; # Contemporary British short story; # British women writers of the 20th century; # Opowiadanie w kulturze masowej (for the students of European Culture); # The Survey of English Literature; # Introduction to Literature.

Classes in the winter semester 2005/2006:

• Close reading of James Joyce's Ulisses
• The Survey of English Literature
• Introduction to Literature

Duty hours in the winter semester 2008/2009:

• Friday, 11.30 - 13.00

Publications:

Books:

• Stacja kontroli chaosu. Postacie i zjawiska współczesnej fantastyki. Warszawa, 2004
• The Voices of Disaster. J.G. Ballard and the Disaster Story Tradition in EnglandWarszawa, 2005

Forthcoming books:

• 'Ways of Pleasure'. Angela Carter's 'Discourse of Delight' in her Fiction and Non-fiction.

Articles:

• 'Remembering Angela Carter: the Deja-lu Literature'in PASE Papers , Edmund Gussmann and Bogdan Szymanek (eds), Lublin 1998, pp. 273-287.
• 'In the Persuit of Pleasure'in Acta Philologica, Warszawa 1998, pp.179-197.
• 'The Invisible City of Venice - Jeanette Winterson and Italo Calvino' in Acta Philologica, Warszawa 2000, pp.157-165.
• 'From Fact to Fiction: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus as a study in unreliable narration' in Anglica, Warszawa 2002, pp.39-48.
• 'The Dream Narrative in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein' in Approaches to Literature, Warszawa 2001, pp. 114-120.
• 'Beauty and the Picture : Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe' in Approaches to Literature.
• 'Playing dolls: "The Uncanny" In "The Smile" by J.G. Ballad and "The Loves of Lady Purple" by Angela Carter' in PASE Papers in Literature and Culture , Joanna Burzyńska and Danuta Stanulewicz (eds), Gdańsk 2003, pp.257-264.
• 'The Persistence of Memory: Surrealism in J.G. Ballard's Vermilion Sands by J.G. Ballard' in Acta Philologica, Warszawa 2003, pp. 107-118.
• 'Realms of the Thanatos: J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World in the Light of Sigmund Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle' in Perspectives on Literature and Culture, Leszek S. Kolek, Aleksandra Kędzierska and Anna Kędra-Kardela (eds), Lublin 2004, pp.205-213.
• 'From the Avant-Garde to the Autobiography: the journalism of J.G. Ballard' in Anglica, 2005, Andrzej Weseliński and Jerzy Wełna (eds) pp. 39-51.

Translation:

• Esej Angelii Carter "Opowieści ery neoanalfabetycznej" w "Nowa Fantastyka", nr 10\2002, str. 65

Cultural journalism (Polish press):

In the years 1997-2005 over 100 articles devoted to literature and history of literature (reviews, cultural essays, interviews with novelists) published in Nowa Fantastyka, Polityka, Wprost, and literary supplements to Życie i Gazeta Wyborcza.