Agnieszka Graff
Ph.D., English literature, University of Warsaw, 1999

308 ASC
+48 22 55 333 27 (office)
+48 22 55 333 22 (fax)
abgraff@go2.pl

Research interests:

Gender in both American and Polish culture: the U.S. women’s movement, feminist theory, women writers, masculinity studies, the intersection of race and gender, American race relations, the African American intellectual and literary traditions, as well as the construction of race in literature and film.

Selected recent publications:

• Gender and Nation, Here and Now: Reflections on the Gendered and Sexualized Aspects of Contemporary Polish Nationalism.” In: Elżbieta H. Oleksy, (ed.) Intimate Citizenships: Gender, Subjectivity, Politics, (New York London: Routledge Series in Gender and Society, 2009).
• “The Land of Real Men and Real Women: Gender and E.U. Accession in Three Polish Weeklies.” In: Carolyn Elliott (ed.) Global Empowerment of Women: Responses to Globalization, Politicized Religions and Gender Violence (New York, London: Routledge, 2008), 191-212.
• “Feminism’s Classic Precursor or Lingering Nightmare? - the Strange Career of Valerie Solanas and her SCUM Manifesto.” In: Jacek Gutorow and Tomasz Lebiecki (eds.) Conformity and Resistance in America. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), 335-346.
• “A Different Chronology: Reflections on Feminism in Contemporary Poland” in: Third Wave Feminism. A Critical Exploration. Expanded Second Edition. Ed. Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, Rebecca Munford (London: Palgrave, 2007), 142-155.
• "We Are (Not All) Homophobes: A Report from Poland," Feminist Studies, 32 (2), Summer 2006: 434-449.
• Świat bez kobiet. Płeć w polskim życiu publicznym, W.A.B. Warszawa, 2001, 283 pp. [World Without Women. Gender in Polish Public Life]. Second edition - 2008
• Rykoszetem. Rzecz o Płci, Seksualności i Narodzie, W.A.B. Warszawa 2008, 262 pp. [Stray bulletes. Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Nation]

Courses:

• Lecture - History of American Literature - Part II
• M.A. seminar - American Literature and Culture.
• The African-American Intellectual Tradition
• Nineteenth-Century American Literature
• Reading Race in American Literature (formerly: Transgressions Across the Color Line - ‘Passing’ in American Literature)
• Gender and American Literature
• The American Women’s Movement
• Feminist Theory-Recent Debates
• Gender and Culture