Contact Information
M/C 170uiuc campus mail, IL 00001
Biography
Able to speak: Polish, Russian, French (reading) and German (reading).
Research Interests
20th & 21st century Polish and Russian literature and culture
Postmodernism
Memory and trauma studies
Representations of WWII and the Holocaust in literature and film
Research Description
Some of her book reviews and conference presentations are as follows:
• Taking Liberties: Gender, Transgressive Patriotism, and Polish Drama, 1786-1989 by HalinaFilipowicz, Cosmopolitan Review, Fall 2015,
• The Kingdom of Insignificance: Miron Białoszewski and the Quotidian, the Queer, and theTraumatic by Joanna Niżyńska, Cosmopolitan Review, Fall 2015,
• “Silent Bodies: Gesture, Language, and Alterity in Stefan Chwin’s Hanemann”, AATSEEL,2017
• “The Missing Signifier: The ‘Jew’ in Contemporary Polish Literature,” Midwest SlavicConference, OSU, 2016; Graduate Student Conference in Slavic Studies, UIUC, 2016;ASEEES, 2016
• “Wounded Selves: Trauma and Identity in Magdalena Tulli’s Włoskie szpilki,” Central SlavicConference, Saint Louis U, 2015; AATSEEL, 2016
• “Blank Spaces and Realms of Possibility: Liminality in Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House ofNight,” Midwest Slavic Conference, OSU, 2015; Slavic Forum, U of Chicago, 2015
• “Healing the Katyń Wound:Wajda’s Katyń as a Transferential Space,” The Future of Trauma andMemory Studies: Challenging Interpretive and Theoretical Boundaries, UIUC, 2014
• “Finding the Voice in the Wound: The Representation of Trauma in Magdalena Tulli’s WłoskieSzpilki,” Interdisciplinary Forum in Slavic Studies, UIUC, 2014; ASEEES, 2015
Education
B.A.: Comparative Literature, European Cultural Studies, English & American Literature, Brandeis University, 2007 (Summa Cum Laude)
M.A.: Slavic Cultures (Polish), Columbia University, 2010. Master’s Thesis: “Embracing Chaos: Magdalena Tulli’s Subversion of Form”
Awards and Honors
Illinois Distinguished Fellowship, UIUC, 2012-2014, 2016-2017
SLL Summer Departmental Fellowship, UIUC, Summer 2016
Scott Maltby Memoral Fund Award ,UIUC, Spring & Fall 2016
SLL Graduate Student Term Paper Prize, UIUC, 2015
List of Teachers Ranked as ‘Excellent’ by Their Students, UIUC, Fall 2014, Spring & Fall 2015, Spring 2016
Courses Taught
First and Second-Year Polish