dr Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz


Department of British Culture

assistant professor

Room number: 3.515

email: maria.szafranska@uw.edu.pl

  Office hours: Office hours in the spring semester: Tuesday 16:45-18:15
dr Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz

Degrees

2017 – magisterium, Uniwersytet Warszawski

2022 – doktorat, Uniwersytet Warszawski


Research interests and projects

modern interpretations of Western literature and culture in works from China, South Korea and Japan

steampunk: international and transcultural

British fantasy with elements of the East

Victorian literature and its contemporary forms

Historical/propaganda movies of China (as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan), South Korea and Japan


Selected publications

Błaszkiewicz, B; Błaszkiewicz, M i Rutkowski, P (2023). “For what good’s a memory’s returning from the mist if it’s only to push away another?” Memory and Guilt in Joseph Delaney’s Wardstone Chronicles (2004-2014) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant (2015)”. Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture (39): The Art of Cultural Memory: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-89640-2; 231-243.

Brońka, J i Zielonka, K. (2022): „Gra o tron i kryzys wiary literackiej”, Perspektywy Ponowoczesności. Tom 13: Fantastyka, fantazmaty, imaginaria. Zagadnienia i realizacje. Ośrodek Badawczy Ficta Facta. ISBN: 978-83-955581-8-4: 119–136.

Bednarczyk, A; Kubarek, M; Lewicka, M; Szatkowski, M. (2021). “Escaping to and from Orientalism: Alexandre Dumas’ “The Count of Monte Cristo” and its adaptations”. Orient in Literature, Literature of the orient (6). Crossroads of Liberty: Asia, African and European Literature Towards Freedom and Oppression. Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa, ISBN 978-83-8017-391-0: 208-216.

Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN