dr hab. Aneta Dybska
Department of North American Cultures and Literatures
associate professor
Room number: 3.239
email: adybska@uw.edu.pl
During the exam session I will hold my office hours on June 8, 2026 (Monday) and June 15, 2026 (Monday) between 9:00 and 10:30 am. If you would like to schedule an appointment please write me an email.
I will post my office hours for the remaining two weeks of the exam session soon.
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
- law and justice
- reparative justice and reparations
- oral history
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

