Katarzyna Kuczma

Adiunkt (Assistant professor)

Department of American Literature

Office: Collegium Novum, room 304A
Phone: (0-61) 829 3518
e-mail: kkasia@wa.amu.edu.pl
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Degrees

• B.A. in English (linguistics/translation), 2003, Poznań
• M.A. in English (American literature), 2005, Poznań
• Ph.D. in English (American literature), 2010, Cotutelle de thèse: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany and Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
   

Research interests

• American literature of the 19^th century (Transcendentalism)
• American postmodernism (2^nd half of the 20^th century)
• American contemporary literature (21^st century)
• American autobiography and memoir
• Theory of Culture and Memory
• Literary Theory (psychoanalysis, narratology, hermeneutics, phenomenology)
   

Teaching Experience 

• History of American Literature
• Interpretation of Literary Texts
• British and American Life and Institutions
• English as a Second Language: Writing and Composition, Speaking, Grammar, and Reading Comprehension
• Academic Discourse
• B.A. seminar in American literature
   

Professional Organisations

• Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS)
   

Scholarships

• Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal; Erasmus/Socrates; 2003-2004
• courtesy of Hogskolan Dalarna, Falun, Sweden, Swedish Language Course and library search; July - August 2006
• Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany, DAAD Forschungsstipendium; 2007-2008
• European Summer School in Cultural Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2009
• EAAS (European Association for American Studies) Travel Grant, Paris, France, October 2009
   

Papers Read at International Conferences and Symposia

• IV IALS (International Association for Literary Semantics) Conference, "In Search of (Non)Sense, Literary Semantics and the Related Fields and Disciplines," Kraków, Poland, October 2006
• PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Annual Conference, "Ideology and Rhetoric - Constructing America," Warsaw, Poland, October 2006
• 1st HELAAS (Hellenic Association for American Studies) International Graduate Student Conference, "ExCentric Narratives: Identity and Multivocality in Anglo-American Cultures," Thessaloniki, Greece, March  2007
• "American Poetry in Europe: Teaching, Translation, Reception," Symposium, Poznań, May 2007
• "Values in Literature and the Media," Gießen, Germany, June 2008
• "Trans-cultural remembrance" - 2nd International Symposium for Young Researchers and Investigators, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 2008
• PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Annual Conference, "The Past in the Present: The American Uses of History," Warsaw, Poland, October 2008
• "Anders: Identitäten," Conference of the Research Area Culture and Identities, Gießen, Germany, November 2008
• "Narrative Networks: Kultur und Narration im Spannungsfeld von Fakten und Fiktionen," Conference of the Research Area Culture and Narration, Gießen, Germany, December 2008
• ESSCS 2009 "The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises", Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2009
• Margaret Fuller Conference, Paris, France, October 2009
• PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Annual Conference, "American Diversity: Identities, Narratives, Politics", Łódź, Poland, October 2010
• PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Annual Conference, "American Experience - the Experience of America", Gdańsk, Poland, October 2011
• LIES VIII (Literature in English Symposium), "Of what is past, or passing, or to come" Travelling in time and space in literature in English, Poznań, Poland, May 2012
• 1st Global Conference: Making Sense of: Play: Project, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, July 2012
   

Organization of International Conferences

• "Narrative Networks: Kultur und Narration im Spannungsfeld von Fakten und Fiktionen," Gießen, Germany, December 2008. Together with: Miriam Wallraven, Daniela Meinhardt, Sandra Berger, Uwe Mayer, and Stephan Freißmann
  
  

Decorations

• Summa cum laude (PhD), 2010, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany
   

Other

• PhD Student representative to RIFA (Rada Instytutu Filologii Angielskiej) (2005-2007)
• Member of the UAM Disciplinary Commission for PhD Students and Authorities (2007)
• Member of the IFA PhD Studies Council (Rada Studium Doktoranckiego Instytutu Filologii Angielskiej) (2008-2009)
   

Publications

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