Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka, PhD

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1 1 Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka, PhD Docent Degrees: 1997 MA in American literature, School of English, Poznań MA thesis written under the supervision of prof. A. Kopcewicz: Paul Auster s The New York Trilogy. An Intertextual Reading 2002 PhD in English literature, School of English, Poznań Doctoral dissertation written under the supervision of prof. Liliana Sikorska: The Interplay of High and Low Literary Forms in English Canadian Novels by Women Writers Research interests: postmodern English-Canadian fiction contemporary Canadian literature by women contemporary literature in English (historiographic) metafiction the western/northern Gothic fiction postmodern autobiography Teaching experience: English literature American literature English-Canadian literature literary theory BA seminar MA seminar supplementary seminar proseminar

2 2 EFL at FCE, CAE and CPE levels Honors: Prize of the Rector of Konin State School of Higher Professional Education in 2002, 2004 and 2006 Scholarships and grants: 2002, 2009 The Polish Association for Canadian Studies conference grants September a visiting researcher, University of Ottawa, Institute of Canadian Studies, Faculty Enrichment Programme (The International Council of Canadian Studies) Canada September 2002 taking part in the Class-set Programme organised by The International Academic Relations Division (ACE) of DFAIT and The Central European Steering Committee for Canadian Studies; receiving a grant in the form of a class set for starting a course on Canadian literature in PWSZ, Konin. September 1999 scholarship at The John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin 10th - 21st November 1997 a Professional Development Seminar Moray House Institute of Education, Edinburgh. Publications: (1) Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and the Idea of English-Canadian National Literary Canon. Zeszyt Naukowy Instytutu Neofilologii PWSZ w Koninie 1/2002, (2) A Stranger in the World The Quest for Identity in Carol Shields The Stone Diaries. Ad Americam. Journal of American Studies. Focus on: US- Canadian Relations. Vol. 4/2003. Jolanta Szymkowska- Bartyzel (ed.). Jagiellonian University Press Cracow, (3) I Suffer Therefore I Change The Echoes of Ovid s Metamorphoses in Aritha van Herk s No fixed address: an amorous journey in Aspects of Suffering. Classical Themes in Literature in English, Liliana Sikorska (ed). Peter Lang Frankfurt am Mein,

3 3 (4) "Congfessions of a Dispassionate Witness- Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter".Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives/ Lieu et Mémoire au Canada: perspectives globales. Editors/Souls la direction de: Magdalena Paluszkiewicz- Misiaczek, Anna Reczyńska, Anna Śpiewak (eds.) Zakład Kanady Instytutu Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie, Polskie Towarzystwo Badań Kanadyjskich, Polska Akademia Umiejętności Kraków, (5) Rewriting the Old Theme Nature in Carol Shields The Stone Diaries Zeszyt Naukowy Instytutu Neofilologii. PWSZ Konin, (6) "Between Cultures and Among genres- Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin". English Language, Literature and Culture. Selected papers from the 13th PASE Conference Poznań Jacek Fisiak (ed.), Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, (7) There are too many of me the polyphony of written/writing selves in Carol Shields Swann and Margaret Atwood s The Blind Assassin. Essays in Red and White./Essais en rouge et blanc. Transcanadiana. Polish Journal of Canadian Studies Krzysztof Jarosz, Agnieszka Rzepa (eds). Para: Katowice, (8) Re/covering her/his stories - Margaret Laurence s The Diviners. Zeszyt Naukowy Instytutu Neofilologii (5) 1/2008 (8).Mirosław Pawlak (ed.). The State Profession School of Higher Education in Konin Press: Konin, (9) Quaking the male kingdom gendering borders in Aritha van Herk s fiction. PASE Studies in Literature and Culture. Magdalena Cieślak, Agnieszka Rasmus (ed.). Łódz University Press: Łódz, (10) Shadows catch up - official and private histories in The Way the Crow Flies by Ann Marie MacDonald. Ad Americam. Journal of American Studies. Vol 9/2008. Jagiellonian University Press: Cracow, (11) The Other is (Not) the Same Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Novels of Ann-Marie MacDonald. Transcanadiana Canada and its Utopias/Canada et ses utopies Vol 2/2009. Anna Branach-Kallas, Dagmara Drewniak, Renata Jarzębowska-Sadkowska, Piotrs Sadkowski (eds). Katowice: Para, (12) Ty Najpierw odpowiedz. Stój! Podaj hasło czyli kody dostępu do kanadyjskiej mozaiki literackiej. (A review of M. Buchotlz Canadian Passwords.

4 4 UMK University, Toruń 2008.) Er(r)go "Klonowanie Kanady / Map(l)ing Canada" 17 (2/2008) Katowice: Uniwersytet Śląski, (13) "We and thee ( ), us and them" - Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley as a postmodern parable of difference ; Ad Americam Journal of American Studies. Vol 11/2010, Jagiellonian University Press, (14) Broken dreams, trampled lives - contesting Canadian multiculturalism in Ann Ireland s Exile and Rawi Hage s Cockroach. Towards Critical Multiculturalism. Dialogues Between/Among Cultures. Vers un multiculturalisms critique: dialogues entre les diasporas canadiennes. Ewelina Bujnowska, Marcian Gabryś (red). Tomasz Sikora. Para, Katowice, (15) 2012 Everyone is a snake shedding its skin identity re/(de)formation in Kathleen Winter s Annabel. Ad Americam Journal of American Studies. Jagiellonian University Press. Vol 13/2012, Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków, (16) 2012 Review of Embracing Otherness. Canadian Minority Discourses in Transcultural Perspectives. Eugienia Sojka, Tomasz Sikora (red). Transcanadiana vol.5 /2012, Para, Katowice, (17) Transgressing boundaries to metamorphose The Outlander by Gil Adamson Jacek Fabiszak, Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka, Bartosz Wolski, Crossroads in Literature and Culture. Jacek Fabiszak, Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka, Bartosz Wolski (eds). Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London: Springer (18) 2013 (co-editors: Jacek Fabiszak and Bartosz Wolski) Crossroads in Literature and Culture. Jacek Fabiszak, Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka, Bartosz Wolski (eds). Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London: Springer. 530 pp. Conference papers: (2) ddssssssds (1) 1st Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, April 20-22, 2001: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and the Idea of English-Canadian National Literary Canon. (2) The Third Canadian Studies One Day Conference, Vilnus University, Lithuania, October 5, A Stranger in the World - The Quest for Identity in Carol Shields The Stone Diaries. (3) 3rd Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies & 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Jagiellonian University Cracow,

5 5 April 30-May 03, Confessions of a Dispassionate Witness Jane Urquhart s The Underpainter (4) 13th International Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University, May 16-17, Between Cultures and Among Genres: Margaret Atwood s The Blind Assassin. (5) 16th International Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Łódz University, April 5-7, Quaking the male kingdom gendering borders in Aritha van Herk s fiction. (6) 4th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies, Lublin University, Puławy, April, Shadows catch up official and private histories in The Way the Crow Flies by Ann Marie MacDonald. (7) 33rd Annual Conference, British Association for Canadian Studies. Warwick University, Coventry, Great Britain 5-7 April, On the outside and the inside at the same time - (de)constructing sameness and difference in Ann-Marie MacDonald s Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies. (8) 34th Annual Conference, British Association for Canadian Studies. University of Oxford, Great Britain, March, "We and thee ( ), us and them" - Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley as a postmodern parable of difference. (9) 19th International Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Kalisz, April 19-21, Transgressing boundaries to metamorphose The Outlander by Gil Adamson. (10) 5th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies, Kraków, October 7-9, Broken dreams, trampled lives - contesting Canadian multiculturalism in Ann Ireland s Exile and Rawi Hage s Cockroach. (11) 20th International Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Toruń, UMK, May Everyone is a snake shedding its skin - becoming and unbecoming in Kathleen Winter s Annabel. (12) 37th 34th Annual Conference, British Association for Canadian Studies Sustaining Canada: Past, Present and Future Environments, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, Great Britain, 2-4 April 2012: The (un)bearable heaviness of being - oppressive environments in Rawi Hage s Cockroach. (13) Spotkania z Kulturą Anglosaską, PWSZ w Konin 27th March 2013: The Myth of the North in Canada.

6 6 (14) 6th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 5-7 April 2013: A brave new schizophrenic world Canada in Michael O Brien s Plague Journal. (15) Nicolaus Copernicus University, Department of English, Toruń, December 2013, a guest lecture: Re/invention of the self - a quest for identity in Canadian literature. Professional organizations: Polish Association of Canadian Studies (PACS) British Association of Canadian Studies (BACS) Organizer of conferences and congresses: April 2010 PASE The English Department of Adam Mickiewicz University in Kalisz 3rd April 2008 The Canadian Day At the English Department of Adam Mickiewicz University in Kalisz 5-6 October 2007 Research SIG Conference Exploring English Language Learning and Teaching, Konin State School of Higher Professional Education, 27th March 2013 co-organizer: Bartosz Wolski, student conference Anglosaskie Spotkania z Kulturą, Konin State School of Higher Professional Education Professional service and experience: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Kalisz branch, Adjunct Professor ( ) Konin State School of Higher Professional Education, Lecturer ( ), Senior lecturer ( ), Docent (2010-)