Last updated by grzegorz on 2020-02-10. Originally submitted by tomash on 2016-09-02.
mgr Małgorzata Bobowska
Doktorantka (PhD student)
Office: Collegium Heliodori, room 156
Phone: (+48) 61 829 3534
E-mail: mbobowska@wa.amu.edu.pl
Websites / Profiles::
Duty hours: link
Non-teaching duties (in Polish): link
Degrees
- B.A. in English, Poznań, 2013
- M.A. in English, Poznań, 2015
Research interests
- Contemporary Canadian literature
- Asian-Canadian and Asian-American literature
- History of the Japanese community in Canada
- Japanese culture and language
- Memory Studies
Teaching experience
- TEFL to children and young learners
- TEFL at university level
- History of American Literature
Honours
- Award of the Dean of the Faculty of English for the best M.A. thesis in literature (2015)
- An honor in PACS Nancy Burke Best M.A. Thesis Contest (2016)
Papers read at conferences and congresses
- 7th Congress of Polish Canadianists "Canada and War / Le Canada et les guerres" (Toruń, Poland, 2016), title: “Remembering Historical Violence: the Role of Photography in the Japanese Canadian Community and in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan”
- USS's 6th Student Conference "Pets & Beasts: Animals in North American Literature and Culture" (Łódź, Poland 2017), title: "Animal Imagery in Representing the Past and Otherness in Selected Japanese Canadian Novels"
- The World Needs More Canada? Changes and Challenges in Contemporary Canadian Culture and Society (Nijmegen, the Netherlands 2017), title: "Forever foreigners? Exploring Japanese Canadian identity in One Big Hapa Family documentary and Mariko and Jillian Tamaki's Skim"
- British Association for Canadian Studies, 43rd Annual Conference "2018 - A Century Later: Memory, Remembrance and Change" (London, UK, 2018), title: "Exploring the transnational Nikkei identity: facing Japan and the Pacific War in Rui Umezawa’s The Truth about Death and Dying and Joy Kogawa’s Gently to Nagasaki"
- 28th PASE Conference: Diversity is inclusive: Cultural, literary and linguistic mosaic (Poznań, Poland 2019), title: "Embracing otherness and a hybrid Nikkei identity in Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child and The Water of Possibility"
Other talks and presentations
- Canada Day, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 2017
- WA Friday Lunch Talk, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 2018
- Canada Day, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 2018
- Canada Day, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 2019
Scholarships
- John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, 2018
Professional organisations
- Polskie Towarzystwo Badań Kanadyjskich (Polish Association for Canadian Studies)
Publications
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