dr hab. Aneta Dybska


Department of North American Cultures and Literatures

associate professor

Room number: 3.239

email: adybska@uw.edu.pl

  Office hours: FALL SEMESTER 2024:
On-site meetings on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. or online, both by email appointment
Link to the online ZOOM meeting: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/93752281416
dr hab. Aneta Dybska

Degrees

M.A., University of Warsaw, 1998

Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 2005

Postdoctoral degree (habilitacja), University of Warsaw, 2017


Research interests and projects

  • Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Social History
  • American cultural studies:
  • African-American studies
  • urban studies
  • race and ethnicity studies
  • gender and queer studies
  • nationalism studies


Selected publications

Books

Regeneration, Citizenship and Justice in the American City since the 1970s. Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture. Series Editor: Marek Wilczyński. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016.

Black Masculinities in American Social Science and Self-Narratives of the 1960s and 1970s. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010.

Chapters

“Gardening and Intergenerational Solidarity in Contemporary American Children’s Literature” Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film. Eds. Justyna Deszcz Tryhubczak and Zoe Jaques. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. str.176-188.

“‘The End of History’ Thesis and the Polish Connection.” Texts, Images, Practices Contemporary Perspectives on American, British and Polish Cultures. Ed. Paweł Rutkowski  and Justyna Wierzchowska. Peter Lang: 2021, str. 17-30.

“An Outlandish Idea or a Staple of Growth? Contradictory Visions of Urban Gardening in Documentary Films about Detroit and Philadelphia. American Wild Zones: Space, Experience Consciousness. Eds. Jerzy Kamionowski and Jacek Partyka. The New Americanists in Poland. Ed. Tomasz Basiuk. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016. 29-39.

 “Bleaching Creams and Hair Relaxers: Race Hierarchies Today and in the Past.” Towards Better Language Teaching: Methodological Concerns/ Using Cultural and Literary Studies. Eds. Jerzy Kamionowski and Natalia Malenko. Łomża: Ośrodek Doskonalenia Nauczycieli i Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki i Przedsiębiorczości w Łomży, 2015. 143-160.

“The Battle over Squash and Beans: Food Justice Activism in a Polarized City.” Eating America: Crisis, Sustenance, Sustainability. Eds. Justyna Kociatkiewicz, Laura Suchostawska, and Dominika Ferens. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015. 53-67.

“The Shrinking City: Real Estate Development Meets Community Activism in Philadelphia’s Green Spaces.” Romanian Journal of American Studies 1.2 (2014): n.pag.

“Bobby Seale’s Autobiographical Writings: From Revolutionary to Hegemonic Masculinity.” Revolutions, Evolutions, and Devolutions in Europe, America, and Elsewhere. Ed. Bożenna Chylińska. Warsaw: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, 2010. 95-123.

“Malcolm X’s Nationalisms.” Czarno na białym: Afroamerykanie którzy poruszyli Amerykę. Ed. Ewa Łuczak and Andrzej Antoszek. Warszawa: Warsaw University Press, 2009. 142-172.

“Intervention into the Ideologies of Race, Poverty, and Masculinity: Claude Brown’s Success Story of Manchild in the Promised Land.Ideology and Rhetoric: Constructing America. Ed. Bożenna Chylińska. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 99-109.

“Disrupting the Order: Kenneth B. Clark’s Dark Ghetto as an Intervention into the1960s Sociological Discourse on Black Masculinity.” American Freedoms, American Disorders, Vol.1 Ed. Zbigniew Lewicki. Warszawa: American Studies Center, 2005. 69-80.

 “Afrocentrism: Back to the Center.” Traveling Subjects: American Journeys in Space and Time. Eds. Dominika Ferens, Justyna Kociatkiewicz, and Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak. Kraków: Rabid, 2004. 317- 325.

“Redefining ‘Negro’: Twentieth-Century Black Nationalism  and Ethnic Self-hood.” American Portraits and Self-Portraits. Ed. Jerzy Durczak. Lublin: Marie Curie-Skłodowska University Press, 2002. 109-117.

 

Articles

“Frontier Imagery in Gentrification Narratives: Andrew Wingfield’s ‘Right of Way’ (2010)” Roczniki Humanistyczne,Vol. LXVIII, no.11 (2020), pp. 81-94.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh206811-5 

“Silencing Speech: New American Free Speech Debates.” Res Rhetorica Vol. 7, no. 4 (2020), pp. 17-32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29107/rr2020.4.2 

“Introduction.” Co-written with Sandrine Baudry. European Journal of American Studies 10.3 (2015). Special Double Issue: The City, Part One: “Spatial Justice and the Right to the City: Conflicts around Access to Public Urban Space.” https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11188

“Where the War on Poverty and Black Power Meet: A Right to the City Perspective on American Urban Politics in the 1960s.” European Journal of American Studies 10.3 (2015). Special Double Issue: The City, Part One: “Spatial Justice and the Right to the City: Conflicts around Access to Public Urban Space.” https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11251

“The Shrinking City: Real Estate Development Meets Community Activism in Philadelphia’s Green Spaces.” Romanian Journal of American Studies 1.2 (2014): n.pag. https://raas.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/04_Dybska-The-Shrinking-City-RJAS-2013.pdf

“‘Układ limfatyczny demokratycznej metropolii’: Seksualność a przestrzeń miejska w Nowym Jorku ery AIDS.” InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies 11b (2016): 155-169.

https://doi.org/10.51897/interalia/RELI8580

            “Paul Fleischman’s Seedfolks: Community Gardening and Urban Regeneration.” Polish Journal for American Studies 8 (2014).167-180.

https://paas.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/PJAS_vol8.pdf

“Gentrification and Lesbian Subcultures in Sarah Schulman’s Girls, Visions and Everything.Polish Journal of American Studies 5 (2011): 99-110. https://paas.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nr-5.pdf

“From the Prison-House of Soledad: The Forging of Black Nationalism and Masculinity in Solitary Confinement.” The Americanist, Issue on Gender and Sexuality Vol.26 (2011): 133-147.

Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN


Other

Participated in the Faculty of Modern Languages żyj chFILO debate " When does the city go wrong?"

https://youtu.be/kSY5GJDtkOw