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Małgorzata Bobowska

Last updated by dagmarad on 2019-07-01. Originally submitted by tomash on 2016-09-02.

mgr Małgorzata Bobowska

Doktorantka (PhD student)

Center for Canadian Literature

Office: Collegium Heliodori, room 341
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