mgr Karolina Kowalska
Research interests and projects
American studies
comic book studies
comics and narration
politics and comics
science and technology studies (STS)
video game studies
popular culture
PhD supervision
dr hab. Joanna Ziarkowska-Ciechanowska (Department of North American Cultures and Literatures)
Conferences
Conferences
"The Forge, the Sun and the Mother: Beyond Borders. Decoding the Frontier and Navigating Tribal Identity in the Horizon Video Game Franchise", 121st Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
Conference, Palm Springs, California, USA (November 7-10, 2024);
"The Haunted Sapphic: Depictions of Doomed Lesbianism in Mike Flanagan's Horror Trilogy The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass" 45th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (February 21-24, 2024);
"Literary and Visual Geographies of the Rural Queer: Transformations of Small-town American Communities Through Non-normative Expression" Ruhr PhD Forum in American Studies 2024, University of Duisburg-Essen & Dortmund University, Essen & Dortmund, Germany (January 26-27, 2024);
"History, Gender, and Nostalgia: (Re)defining Identities in Modern American Comic Books from the 1980s to the Present" 2nd International Humanities - Society - Identity Congress |Evolution/Revolution, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, Polska (December 6-7, 2023);
"Shackled and Bound: Narrative Constraints of the Female Superhero in Greg Rucka’s Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia", 2023 13th International Student Poster Presentation Conference in English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapst, Hungary (May 8-12, 2023)