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Ewa Łuczak Ph.D.

Duty hours in the winter semester 2008/2009:

• Friday, 13.45 - 15.15

Doctor Ewa Luczak earned her Ph.D. degree from the Modern Languages Department, University of Warsaw in 2000 for her dissertation Functions and Forms of Memory in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Since then she has been an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw where she teaches courses in African American Literature, African American Women Writers, Latina/o Literature, Chicana/o Novel and Narratology. In 1996 she was awarded a Junior Fulbright scholarship and studied with prof. Emory Elliott at the University of California, Riverside. In the summer of 2005 she participated in the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University in Prof. Toril Moi's seminar. Ewa Luczak has published on African American and Chicana/o Literature and has taken part in numerous international conferences which addressed the issue of multicultural American literature and culture (e.g. American Studies Association Conference, Collegium for African American Literature conferences). Her scholarly interests include African American literature and culture, Latina/o literature, ethnic writers of the U.S., 20th century novel, theory of the novel, narratology, postcolonial theory and the ordinary language philosophy. Currently she is at work on her postdoctoral dissertation on autofiction in African American and Latina/o novel.

Most Important Publications:

• "Escaping 'Tongue Suicide': Memory as a Way of Constructing Knowledge in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye," Anglica. Approaches to Literature, Culture and Language., Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 1998, 9-23
• "Literature in Postliterate Acoustic Space: the Case of Toni Morrison," Acta Philologica 25, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 1998
• "Choreographing Fiction: Toni Morrison's Body Politics." In PASE Papers in LiteratureEd. Wojciech Kalaga, Leszek Drong. Katowice, Wydawnictwo Śląsk, 1999, 165-179
• -"Rethinking History: Toni Morrison's Versions of the Past," American Studies , vol.XVII, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 1999, 35-53
• -"Defense of Repetition: Toni Morrison as an Oral Artist." In Reflections on Ethical Values in Post(?)Modern American Literature Ed. Teresa Pyzik. Katowice, Wydawnictwo Śląsk, 2000, 104-115
• -"From Utopia to a Racial Armageddon: Toni Morrison's Paradise and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire." In American Apocalypse Ed. Agnieszka Salska, Zbigniew Maszewski. Łódż, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2001, 203-214
• -"Inverting Lenses: 'The New Negro' in Black and White." In American Portraits and Self - Portraits , Ed. Jerzy Durczak. Maria Curie Skłodowska University Press, Lublin, 2002,225 - 237
• -"The Return of the Repressed: Strategies of Racial Remembering and Forgetting in the Works of Jean Toomer." Zeitschrift f?r Anglistik und Amerikanistik. A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 1-2. 2003, 49 - 57
• -"'Brer Rabbit Takes a Walk': The Trickster in Afro-American Folklore and Fiction. In Animal Magic: Essays on Animals in American Imagination Ed. Jopi Nyman and Carol Smith. University of Joensuu. Studies in Literature and Culture. Joensuu, 2004, 137-150
• -"Between Speech and Silence: Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo." In The Poetics of America Ed. Agata Preis-Smith and Marek Paryż. English Institute, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, 2004, 209-222