Contact Information
Foreign Languages Building
M/C 173
UIUC campus mail
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Modern Polish literature
Joseph Conrad - life and works
Witold Gombrowicz - life and works
Critical theory
Emigration, exile, travel writing
Polish-Jewish relations
Education
PhD, University of Toronto
MA, BA, McGill University
Awards and Honors
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Associate Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Associate Professor, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Gasyna, G. Z. (2011). Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise: Exilic Discourse in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz. Continuum. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472543158
Brodsky, G. W. S., & Gasyna, G. Z. (Ed.) (2016). Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self. (Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives Project; Vol. XXV). Columbia University Press.
Gasyna, G. Z. (2015). Tandeta (Trash): Bruno Schulz and the micropolitics of everyday life. Slavic Review, 74(4), 760-784. https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.760
Gasyna, G. Z. (2008). The Poetics of the Borderlands: Ryszard Kapuściński’s Poland. Polish Review, 53(1), 53-72.
Gasyna, G. Z. (2007). Rituals at the Limits of Literature: A New Reading of Witold Gombrowicz’s Cosmos. Sarmatian Review, 27(3), 1323-1332.
Gasyna, G. Z. (2006). Wyprawa na krańce literatury: Nowe spojrzenie na Kosmos. Kresy: Kwartalnik Literacki, 3(67), 103-111.
Gasyna, G. Z. (2002). A mind divided: The dual exile of Czesław Miłosz. Russian Literature, 52(4), 355-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3479(02)80031-X
Gasyna, G. Z. (2002). Life as Intertext: Distance, Deception and Intentionality in Marek Hlasko's Killing the Second Dog. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 44(1-2), 19-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/00085006.2002.11092299
Gasyna, G. (2017). Andrzej Stasiuk and the Myth of the Literary Gastarbajter. In A. Walke, J. Musekamp, & N. Svobodny (Eds.), Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age: Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia (pp. 276-298). Indiana University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt20060x8.15
Gasyna, G. Z. (2013). Between Exilic Self-Fashioning and Nostalgia of the Return: Some Thoughts on Conrad’s Polish Writings. In Szlachta’ Culture to the XXI Century, Between East and West: New Essays on Joseph Conrad’s Polishness (pp. 211-232). Columbia University Press.
Recent Publications
Gasyna, G. (2017). Andrzej Stasiuk and the Myth of the Literary Gastarbajter. In A. Walke, J. Musekamp, & N. Svobodny (Eds.), Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age: Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia (pp. 276-298). Indiana University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt20060x8.15
Gasyna, G. Z. (2017). Introduction. In G. W. S. Brodsky (Ed.), Joseph Conrad’s Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self (pp. 1-11). (Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives ). Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press.
Brodsky, G. W. S., & Gasyna, G. Z. (Ed.) (2016). Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self. (Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives Project; Vol. XXV). Columbia University Press.
Gasyna, G. Z. (2015). Tandeta (Trash): Bruno Schulz and the micropolitics of everyday life. Slavic Review, 74(4), 760-784. https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.760
Gasyna, G. Z. (2014). Introduction. In All Backs Were Turned (pp. i-viii). New Vessel Press.