STAFF

Dr. Aleksandra M. Różalska – Women’s Studies Center Chairwoman

aleksandra.rozalska@uni.lodz.pl

 

Research interests: television studies, critical discourse analysis, minority studies, intersections of gender, race, and religion in the media; relationships between the media and politics, narratives of 9/11 and the war on terror, postcolonial studies, media representations of refugees and migrants, media and anti-discrimination education.

Recent publications (since 2015):

• Różalska, Aleksandra. “Cultures of (In)equality in Poland after 1989.” In Theorizing Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe. Eds. Suzanne Clisby, Mark Johnson, Routledge, London (forthcoming 2019).
• Różalska, Aleksandra. “Afroamerykanki wobec dyskryminacji ze względu na płeć i rasę na przykładzie bohaterek współczesnych seriali telewizyjnych.” In Kobiety wobec dominacji i opresji. Perspektywa feministyczna, Eds. Izabela Desperak, Inga Kuźma, Edyta Pietrzak. Łódź University Press, Łódź, 2019.
• Różalska, Aleksandra. “Muslim Cultures as the ‘Wild Zone’: Representations of Muslim Women in American Television Series after 9/11.” In American Wild Zones. Space, Experiences, Consciousness. Eds. Jerzy Kamionowski, Jacek Partyka, Frankfurt am Mein: Peter Lang, 2016, 279-292.
• Różalska, Aleksanda. “Wojna z terroryzmem w amerykańskich serialach telewizyjnych.” In Seriale w kontekście kulturowym. Gatunki – Motywy – Mutacje. Eds. Daria Bruszewska-Przytuła, Alina Naruszewicz-Duchlińska, Instytut Polonistyki i Logopedii UWM, Olsztyn 2016, 135-150.
• Różalska. Aleksandra. “Obraz islamu w amerykańskich serialach telewizyjnych po 11 września 2001 roku.” In Polityka i społeczeństwo w świecie islamu, red. Izabela Kończak, Magdalena Lewicka, Marta Widy-Behiesse, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2016, s. 289-298.
• The Personal of the Political: Transgenerational Dialogues in Contemporary European Feminisms, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2015, 268 pages (co-edited with z Elżbieta H. Oleksy i Marek M. Wojtaszek).
• Różalska, Aleksandra. “Pop-Messanism and the Politics of Death in Days of Honor: Feminist Critique of the Dominant Polish Historical Memory.” In The Personal of the Political: Transgenerational Dialogues in Contemporary European Feminisms. Eds. Elżbieta H. Oleksy, Aleksandra M. Różalska, Marek M. Wojtaszek, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2015, 145-166.
• Różalska, Aleksandra. “Feministki postkolonialne wobec wojny z terroryzmem po 11 września 2001 roku.” In Kobiety niepokorne. Reformatorki – Buntowniczki – Rewolucjonistki. Eds. Izabela Desperak, Inga Kuźma, Łódź University Press, Łódź 2015, 139-151.
• Różalska, Aleksandra. “Wizerunek mniejszości muzułmańskiej w polskiej prasie na przykładzie budowy Ośrodka Kultury Muzułmańskiej w Warszawie.” In Mity polityczne i stereotypy w pamięci zbiorowej społeczeństwa. Eds. Eugeniusz Ponczek, Andrzej Sepkowski, Magdalena Rekść, Łódź University Press, Łódź 2015, 317-330.

 

Dr hab. Dorota Golańska

dorota.golanska@uni.lodz.pl

 

Dorota Golańska has degrees in Cultural Studies, Literary Studies and International Studies. She works at the Department of American Studies and Mass Media and is an associate of Women’s Studies Center, University of Lodz.

Research interests:

1. Collective memory, especially in relation to traumatic experiences and their representation in culture, „difficult heritage,” memory of the genocide – these works are situated at the intersection of memory studies, cultural studies and theory/philosophy of knowledge.
2. Affirmative humanities advancing postrepresentational, posthuman and postanthropocentric approach to culture, including the processes of knowledge production. The issues of Anthropocene, especially in the context of artistic production.
3. New materialism as a research methodology in contemporary memory studies and heritage studies. In a broader perspective – analysis and evaluation of the epistemological and methodological perspectives in contemporary cultural studies.

Publications:
She is an author of a book, editor or co-editor of 5 monographs and an author of over 30 articles. In years 2014-2018 she published:

• Affective Connections. Towards a New Materialist Politics of Sympathy, Rowman & Littlefield, New York and London 2017.
• “Geoart as a New Materialist Practice: Intraactive Becomings and Artistic Knowledge Production.” RUUKKU: Studies in Artistic Research 9/2018.
• “O praktykach i procesie. Badania artystyczne a mechanizmy wytwarzania wiedzy w ujęciu nowomaterialistycznym”, In Feministyczny Nowy Materializm: Usytuowane Kartografie, ed. Olga Cielemęcka i Monika Rogowska-Stangret, e-naukowiec, Warsaw 2018.
• “Bodily Collisions: Towards a New Materialist Account of Memorial Art.” Memory Studies 14.4. (2017) DOI: 10.1177/1750698017741928: 1-16.
• The Invisible and the ‘Matter’ of Memory: A New Materialist Approach to Countermonumental Aesthetics.” The Polish Journal of Aesthetics 47(4/2017): 93-107.
• “Terrifying Pleasures: In Quest of an Affirmative Approach to ‘Dark Installation Art.’” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 12(5): 1-17.
• “Women’s World Conference”. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, pod redakcją Nancy Naples, Renée C. Hoogland, Maithrée Wickramasinghe, Wai Ching i Angeli Wong, Wiley Blackwell, Chichester 2016. DOI: 10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss327
• “Affective Spaces, Sensuous Engagements: In Quest of a Synaesthetic Approach to ‘Dark Memorials.’” International Journal of Heritage Studies 8(21)(2015): 773-790.
• “Importing Trauma/Reclaiming the ‘Wild’: Holocaust Memory in the US”, w: American Wild Zones. Space, Experience, Consciousness, ed. Jerzy Kamionkowski and Jacek Partyka, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2015.

She has fulfilled research stays at the University of Miami (Florida, US), Columbia University (New York, US), Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Australia) and University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). She was a fellow at the Faculty of Art, Utrecht University.

She has been involved in realization of a number of research grants and educational projects, including: 01.10.2015 - 30.09.2018 GRACE (Marie Curie Action, Horizon2020, RTN grant); 01.07.2014 – 30.06.2018 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on “How Matter Comes to Matter” (Action IS1307, COST European Cooperation in Science and Technology), 30.01.2013 – 29.01.2016 individual research grant Aesthetics of trauma: affective perception vs. representation of the Holocaust in memory sites (NCN, HS2, OPUS3), 01.09.2017 – 31.08.2021 three editions of GEMMA (ERASMUS MUN-DUS/ERASMUS +), 01.09.2012 – 31.08.2014 Teach Tolerance (European Social Fund, POKL), and 01.09.2010 – 31.08.2012 Gender Studies for Teachers (European Social Fund, POKL). Earlier she also participated in realization of ATHENA and GENDERGRADUATES. She has presented her work on more than 30 international conferences in Italy, Sweden, US, Australia, Germany, Slovenia, Turkey, Finland, Span and the UK. She has delivered guest lectures at the University of Belgrade (Faculty of Arts) (2015), Warsaw University (Faculty of Philosophy) (2015), Roehampton Institute London (Faculty of Anthropology) (2015), Wittenberg University in Springfield OH (Faculty of Film) (2014). In 2018 she received a Special Award of the Rector of the University of Lodz for outstanding academic achievements; in 2017 she received a University of Lodz Rector’s award for a series of publications on memory studies and difficult heritage. Earlier, in the years 2010-2013 she was receiving a scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scholars.

Dorota Golańska is a reviewer for Routledge Social Science Research Series (Taylor&Francis) and Memory Studies (Sage), International Journal of Heritage Studies (Taylor&Francis), Studies in Material Thinking (Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies, Auckland University of Technology), Poliarchia (Jagiellonian University), Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (Universiteitsbibliotheek Groningen), Polish Journal of Aesthetics (Jagiellonian University), A/R/T: Analyses/Rereadings/Theories Journal (University of Lodz), and disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory (Universtiy of Kentucky, USA). She is also a reviewer for European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST, European Commission).
staff

    Dr. Aleksandra M. Różalska
    Dr hab. Elżbieta Durys, prof. nadzw. UŁ
    Dr hab. Dorota Golańska
    Dr Grażyna Zygadło
    Dr Marek Wojtaszek
    Dr Kaja Zapędowska-Kling
    Mgr Patrycja Chudzicka-Dudzik

 

Dr Grażyna Zygadło

grazynazygadlo@uni.lodz.pl

 

Grażyna Zygadło is an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies and Mass Media and an associate in the Women’s Studies Center at the University of Lodz. Her areas of expertise are in American studies, specifically minorities in the United States, and gender studies. She was a guest lecturer at the universities in Spain, Finland, Sweden, as well as a recipient of grants from major US universities: University of Idaho, MIT and Florida International University in Miami. Since 2005 she has been Erasmus + Program Coordinator in Women’s Studies Centre. Since 2009 Zygadlo has been a member of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

Major Publicatios
Books:

• „Zmieniając siebie – zmieniam świat” – Gloria E. Anzaldúa i jej pisarstwo zaangażowanego rozwoju w ujęciu społeczno-kulturowym. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019.
• Narrating American Gender and Ethnic Identities Eds. Aleksandra M. Różalska and Grażyna Zygadło, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
• Culture Matters: Chicanas’ Identity in Contemporary USA. Frankfurt am Maine: Peter Lang: 2007.

Articles:

• “To Have It All – Erica Jong’s Heroine as a Female Artist.” in American Studies # 21 ed. Agnieszka Graff, The American Studies Center, Warsaw University, 2004, 53-67.
• “Mythical Space(s): Revisions of the American West.” in The Media and International Communication. Eds. B. Lewandowska- Tomaszczyk, T. Płudowski, D. Valencia Tanno Frankfurt am Maine: Peter Lang: 2007, 185-198.
• “La Malinche: Translation, Globalization, and the Lyric Tradition” in Walking on a Trail of Words. Essays in Honor of Agnieszka Salska. Eds. J. Maszewska and Z. Maszewski, Łódź: Łódź University Press, 2007, 183-197, (co-author prof Stephen Tapscott, M.I.T., USA).
• ”Mexifornia without Mexicans – Contemporary Visions of Mexican-American Presence in the U.S.” in Interpreting the New Milenio. Eds. J.A. Gurpegui and M Carmen Gomez Galisteo, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, 246- 253.
• “Where the Third World Grates against the First”: Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa from a Polish Perspective” in Signs. Journal of Women in Culture and Society, The University of Chicago Press Vol. 37, No. 1 (Autumn 2011), 29-34.
• “How to Tame a Wild Academic –Teaching Anzaldúan Thought in the Polish Context.” in El Mundo Zurdo 5. Eds. Dominio Renee Perez, Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez, Sonia Saldivar-Hull, San Francisco: Aunt lute books, 2016, 29-39.
• Review of Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature edited by Imelda Martin-Junquera (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) written for Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Vol.44.2, June 2017, 346-351.

Dr Marek Wojtaszek

marek.wojtaszek@uni.lodz.pl

 

Research interests :

• digital aesthetics and visual culture
• masculinities studies
• media ecologies
• new materialisms

Recent publications:

• Masculinities and Desire: A Deleuzian Encounter. London & New York: Routledge, 2019.
• “Dreaming-machine. Diurnal Insomnia in Digital Wonderland”. Angles. French Perspectives on the Anglophone World. Online, 2018.
• “The Volatile and the Chimeric. A Hermeneutics of Inter-authenticity”. In Interpreting Authenticity: Translation and Its Others, ed. A. Pantuchowicz, A. Warso. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag, 2017, 58-78.
• “Ekologia bezpieczeństwa. Lotnisko jako przestrzeń cyfrowej kontroli w mobilnym społeczeństwie ryzyka” [Ecology of Security. Airport as a Space of Digital Surveillance in Mobile Risk Society]. In Międzynarodowe oblicza terroryzmu. Ujęcia interdyscyplinarne, ed. T. Domański. Lodz: University of Lodz Press, 2017, 233-261.
• “Limits of Fluidity. Floating Skyscrapers and a Pathosophy of Desire”. In The Personal of the Political. Trangenerational Dialogues in Contemporary European Feminisms, eds. E. Oleksy, A. Różalska, M. Wojtaszek. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, 233-256.

 

Dr Kaja Zapędowska-Kling

kaja.zapedowska@uni.lodz.pl

 

Research interests :

• social policy
• senior policies
• family policies
• demographic change
• welfare state models
• social gerontology, gerontechnology
• gender and old age
• life-course perspective
• media and visual culture

Recent publications:

• Zapedowska-Kling, K., Polityka senioralna 2.0.? Propozycja włączenia elementów interakcji i technologizacji do głównego nurtu polityki społecznej wobec osób starszych, „Studia Oeconomica Posnaniensia” vol. 6(11), 2018, s. 43-59.
• Zapedowska-Kling, K., Intersekcjonalność w polityce społecznej, „Społeczeństwo i ekonomia” nr 2(8), 2017, s. 20-34.
• Zapedowska-Kling, K., Polityka społeczna wobec starzenia się ludności w USA i Szwecji. Wnioski dla Polski, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2016.

Achievements:

Graduate of Fulbrigh Junior Advanced Research Grant at the University of California in Berkeley (2012-2013); individual scholarship of Polish National Science Centre (2011-2014); research assistant in EU-funded international ETICA research project (2009-11).

 

Mgr Patrycja Chudzicka-Dudzik

patrycja.chudzicka@uni.lodz.pl

 

Research interests :

• gender studies
• visual cultures
• audience studies

Recent publications:

• “Kobieta w sferze publicznej. Analiza filmowego wizerunku”. In: Konteksty feministyczne. Gender w życiu społecznym i kulturze, eds. P. Chudzicka-Dudzik and E. Durys. Łódź: Łódź University Press, 2014.
• “Gender as Critical Knowledge: An Historical Overview of European Scholarship”, co- authored with M. M. Wojtaszek. In: European Culture in Diversity, eds. K. Kujawińska Courtney, M. Łukowska and E. Williams. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

 

mgr Marta Malinowska