Zuzanna Ładyga - Michalska Ph.D.

Zuzanna Ładyga is a Ph.D. candidate in the American Literature Section of the Institute of English Studies, the Modern Languages Department at Warsaw University. She earned her M.A. from the department in 2001, for a thesis entitled "William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Donald Barthelme's The Dead Father: An Intertextual Transaction between Modernism and Postmodernism." She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation about the ethics of representation and affect construction strategies in the works of Donald Barthelme. In 2003, she received a research scholarship from the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin. She teaches American literature and literary theory. A member of Polish Association for American Studies, she has participated in a number of local and international conferences on American literature, culture, and 20th century philosophy.

Duty hours in the winter semester 2008/2009:

• Wednesday, 14.00 - 15.30

Materials for students:

• American Literature

Research interests:

• postmodern experimental poetics
• postmodern subjectivity theories
• ethical thought of Emmanuel Levinas
• photography studies

Published academic papers:

• "Faking the Artificial in Donald Barthelme's Paradise." American Studies Vol. XXI 2004
• "The Dead Father, As I Lay Dying and the Intertextual Dialogue between Modernism and Postmodernism." Polish Journal for American Studies Vol.1, 2004
• "The Ethical Thought of Emmanuel Levinas in the Study of Postmodern Poetics" Probing the Boundaries Project: Future Literature, Future Criticism Electronic Journal, 2005
  www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/flfc/flfc1/ladyga%20paper.pdf

Courses:

• survey of American Literature
• introduction to Literary Theory