Ewa Antoszek ORCID iD Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Department of British and American Studies, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4a, 20-031 Lublin Poland
Ewa Antoszek is an Assistant Professor at the Department of British and American Studies of Maria-Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. She also holds a Diploma in American Studies from Smith College (Northampton, MA). In her research, she examines the question of ethnic identities, representations of space in literature, border issues, with a particular focus on the U.S.-Mexico border and the situation of Latinx in the United States, as well as migrations and their effects. Her latest research is devoted to the issue of hostipitality. She is the author Out of the Margins: Identity Formation in Contemporary Chicana Writings (Peter Lang, 2012), a co-editor of Other Drums: Difference and Discord in American Literature and Culture (UMCS Publishing House, 2013) and many articles devoted to the issue of borders, which were published both in Poland and abroad (mostly in the United States). Dr. Antoszek is a member of the editorial board of the Brill/Rodopi publishing series “Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature.” Between 2021 and 2024 she was a member of the Board of the Polish Association for American Studies. In 2022-2023, she received research grants from the National Science Center: NAWA, “New aspects of contemporary American literature and culture” and Miniatura 6, “Hostipitality and conviviality: artivism on the U.S.-Mexico border as an example of actions challenging exclusionary practices.” Together with Prof. Małgorzata Rutkowska of the same department she organizes the conference/seminar “(Re)presentations of America” at UMCS. She is also the leader of the project MigraMedia at UMCS (Erasmus+: Migration Narratives in European Media: Teaching, Learning, and Reflecting), devoted to the representations of migration in various media.
2022: U.S.–Mexico Border Re-Visions: Border Artivism in Time and Space. Roczniki Humanistyczne, 70(11), 7–20. https://doi.org/10.18290/rh227011.1
2021: Immigration and the Expanding U.S. Southern Border: “Casa en tierra ajena (2016)”. European Journal of American Studies, 16(1). Spring 2021. https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.16822
2021: Revisiting La Frontera: Consuelo Jiménez Underwood and Ana Teresa Fernández. In . A. E. Gerke, & L. M. González Rodríguez (Eds.), Latinidad at the Crossroads: Insights into Latinx Identity in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 135–151). Brill Rodopi.
Małgorzata Rutkowska ORCID iD Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Department of British and American Studies, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4a, 20-031 Lublin Poland
Małgorzata Rutkowska works as Associate Professor at the Department of British and American Studies, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Her research interests include British and American travel writing in the 19th and 20th c., contemporary American memoirs, Animal Studies and representations of human-animal bond in literature.
Important publications:
2019: Pleasure and Instruction: Generic Conventions in Emma Hart Willard’s Journal and Letters, From France and Great Britain.” Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies,28(1), 49-61.
2018: „My Lot is Cast in with My Sex and Country”: Generic Conventions, Gender Anxieties and American Identity in Emma Hart Willard’s and Catherine Maria Sedgwick’s Travel Letters. Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 27(1), 51–63.
2018: We Stretch Our Limits and Change Our Lives: Interspecies Communication in Contemporary American Pet Memoirs. In A. Barcz, & D. Łagodzka (Eds.), Animals and Their People. Connecting East and West in Cultural Animal Studies (pp. 105–121). Brill.
2016: Psy, koty i ludzie. Zwierzęta domowe w literaturze amerykańskiej [ Dogs, cats and humans. Companion animals in American Literature]. Wydawnictwo UMCS.
2006: In Search of America. The Image of the United States in Travel Writing of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Wydawnictwo UMCS.
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