prof. ucz. dr hab. Ewa Łuczak


Department of North American Cultures and Literatures

associate professor

Room number: 3.239

Phone: +48 (22) 5531417

email: e.b.luczak@uw.edu.pl

  Office hours: Winter semester 2023/2024
Wednesdays 16.30-18.00, room 3.239
prof. ucz. dr hab. Ewa Łuczak

Degrees

M.A., University of Warsaw, 1991

Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 2000

Postdoctoral degree (habilitacja) University of Warsaw, 2011


Research interests and projects

  • Social Darwinism and eugenics in American literature and culture in the pre-WWII period
  • theories of race and their historical development
  • medical humanities
  • American modernism
  • cosmopolitan studies
  • 20th century African American literature with a special focus on expatriate fiction
  • humor studies and especially political satire in American literature and culture
  • Latino/a literature

Luczak is President of the Polish Association for American Studies. Her recent publications are Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of the Plantation Slavery (coauthored with Constante González Groba and Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis; Routledge, May 2023) and Mocking Eugenics: American Culture against Scientific Hatred (Routledge 2021).

 


Selected publications

Books

Łuczak, Ewa Barbara, Constante Gonzales Groba, Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis (2023) Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery. Routledge.

Łuczak, Ewa Barbara (Ed) (2022). William Faulkner. WUW. 

Luczak, Ewa Barbara (2021)Mocking Eugenics: American Culture against Scientific Hatred. New York: Routledge. 

Luczak, E; Pochmara A.; Dayal S. (Eds) (2019) New Cosmopolitanisms, Race and Ethnicity: Cultural Perspectives. De Gruyter.

Luczak, Ewa Barbara. (2015). Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination: Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Ziarkowska-Ciechanowska, J. A. & Łuczak, E. (Eds.). (2015). Pisarze pochodzenia indiańskiego: Momaday, Silko, Erdrich, Alexie, Vizenor. WUW. 

Łuczak, E. (Ed.). (2013). Toni Morrison.  WUW.

Luczak, Ewa Barbara (2010). How Their Living in Europe Affected Five African American Authors: Towards a Theory of Expatriate Literature. Mellen Press. 

Chapters

Łuczak, E. (2017). Czytając "obcego"; poszukiwanie kosmopolityzmu w Komu bije dzwon. In E. Łuczak (Ed.). Ernest Hemingway. (pp. 173-194). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Łuczak, E. (2017). Czyja Ameryka? Wiosenne potoki jako krytyka dyskursu eugenicznego. In E. Łuczak (Ed.). Ernest Hemingway. (pp. 37-56). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Łuczak, E. (2017). Ernest Hemingway: ostani z wielkich modernistów. Wstęp. In E. Łuczak (Ed.). Ernest Hemingway. (pp. 7-20). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Łuczak, E. (2016). W poszukiwaniu czarnego Beatu: "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note" LeRoi Jonesa/ Amiri Baraki. In M. Paryż (Ed.). Bitnicy. (pp. 177-192). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Ziarkowska, J. & Łuczak, E. (2015). Wstęp. In J. Ziarkowska-Ciechanowska & E. Łuczak (Eds.). Pisarze pochodzenia indiańskiego: Momaday, Silko, Erdrich, Alexie, Vizenor. (pp. 7-18). : Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Łuczak, E. (2015). Wielokulturowość, ironia i solidarność: Louise Erdrich Klub śpiewajacych rzeźników. In J. Ziarkowska-Ciechanowska & E. Łuczak (Eds.). Pisarze pochodzenia indiańskiego: Momaday, Silko, Erdrich, Alexie, Vizenor. (pp. 121-136). : Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Łuczak, E. (2015). Historia, pamięć i estetyka ciszy w "Widoku z Castle Rock". In M. Bucholtz (Ed.). Alice Munro: Wprowadzenie do twórczości. (pp. 264-293). Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek.

Łuczak, E. (2013). "Pisanie jest walką"--męski neohuduizm Ishmaela Reeda. In M. Paryż & A. Preis-Smith (Eds.). Amerykański western literacki w XX wieku. Między historią, fantazją a ideologią. (pp. ). Warszawa: Czuły Barbarzyńca.

Łuczak, E. (2013). Toni Morrison a amerykanskie jeremiady. In E. Łuczak (Ed.). Toni Morrison. (pp. ). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Łuczak, E. (2013). Eugenic Humanism and Frank Yerby's Plantation Romance. In R. Cantu (Ed.). An Insatiable Dialectic: Essays on Critique, Modernity, and Humanism. (pp. 88-103). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Łuczak, E. B. (2013). Coś więcej niż kłótnia rodzinna: Toni Morrison jako krytyk społeczny i literacki. In E. Łuczak (Ed.). Toni Morrison. (pp. 163-183). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Łuczak, E. B. (2013). Powrót do domu w Pieśni Salomonowej: Nostalgia a budowanie tożsamości. In E. Łuczak (Ed.). Toni Morrison. (pp. 75-92). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN


Other

Luczak is the author of Mocking Eugenics: American Culture against Scientific Hatred (Routledge, 2021), which discusses the rise of American anti-eugenic satire in Hollywood, theatre and literature in the pre-WWII period, Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination (Palgrave 2015) and How Their Living outside America Affected Five African American Authors: Toward a Theory of Expatriate Literature (Mellen Press 2010). She is also co-author of Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of the Plantation Slavery published in Routledge Studies in African American Literature (Routledge 2023)

Luczak is the editor or co-editor of eight other volumes:  William Faulkner (WUW 2022); New Cosmopolitanisms, Race and Ethnicity: Cultural Perspectives (with A. Pochmara and S. Dayal, de Gruyte2019); Ernest Hemingway (Warsaw University Press 2017); Toni Morrison (Warsaw University Press, 2013); Pisarze pochodzenia indiańskiego: Momaday, Silko, Erdrich, Alexie, Vizenor (with J. Ziarkowska, Warsaw University Press, 2015); In Other Words: Dialogizing Race, Ethnicity and Postcoloniality (With Wierzchowska, Ziarkowska, Peter Lang 2012), Czarno na białym: Afro-amerykanie którzy poruszyli Amerykę (with A. Antoszek, Warsaw University Press 2009) and Mosaics of Words. Essays on the American and Canadian Literary Imagination (with A. Preiss-Smith and M. Paryz, Institute of English Studies 2009). With M. Paryz she is a co-editor of a book series devoted to eminent American writers of the 20th and 21st century (Warsaw University Press).

She has been awarded grants such as Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship (University of California Irvine, 2019; Johns Hopkins University 2012-3), American Philosophical Society (2013), Corbridge Trust research grant at Cambridge University (2018, 2017, 2014), Fulbright Fellowship (University of California Los Angeles 2007-8; University of California Riverside 1996-7) and School of Criticism and Theory (Cornell University, 2006). She has been invited to speak at European and American Universities on the presence of eugenic discourse in American culture as well as on the African American expatriate authors in Europe. She has visited California State University, Los Angeles i San Bernardino; the State University of New York, Buffalo; Colorado State University, Fort Collins; University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; University of California, Riverside and Los Angeles; Universidad de Santiago di Compostela; Universitat Innsbruck and Hebrew University. In 2018 and 2019 she was a visiting professor at NUUA Nanjing, China and recently she has been invited to join the Centre for American Expatriation and Exile in New York as a member of the advisory board and an affiliated scholar.

With Prof. Piskorska she is the founder of the Humor Lab research group at the Institute of English Studies.