dr Aleksandra Kamińska
Zakład Kultur i Literatur Ameryki Północnej
Adiunkt
Pokój numer: 3.415
email: aleksandra_kaminska@uw.edu.pl
Wednesdays, 3:00-4:30, room 3.415
Please note: no office hours on October 22nd (I will be at a conference).
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2023 Ph.D. in Cultural Studies. University of Warsaw, Poland. Faculty of Artes Liberales.
2015 MA in American Studies. University of Warsaw, Poland. American Studies Center.
2013 BA in English Philology. University of Warsaw, Poland. Institute of English Studies.
Zainteresowania
queer theory, girlhood studies, auto/biography studies
Wybrane publikacje
“Drawing Anxiety in Millennial Women’s Narratives: Abbi Jacobson and Liana Finck.” In The Story's Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives. Edited by Victoria Aarons. Wayne State UP. Co-authored with Karolina Krasuska. 2025.
“Failing Adulthood, Queering Girlhood: Perpetual Adolescence in Broad City and Girls.” The Journal of Popular Culture 54, no 5 (2020): 1046-1065. DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12958
“Reclaiming Adolescent Sexuality: Images of Girlhood in Petra Collins’ Babe.” Adeptus 9 (2017).
“Lekcja przegrywania z Abbi i Ilaną: Broad City jako próba redefinicji współczesnych ideałów kobiecości i sukcesu”. In Seriale w Kontekście Kulturowym. Dyskurs, konwencja, reprezentacja. Ed. by Daria Bruszewska-Przytuła, Monika Cichmińska, Anna Krawczyk- Łaskarzewska, Alina Naruszewicz-Duchlińska, 133-143. Olsztyn: Instytut Polonistyki i Logopedii Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego, 2017.
“I Was Modern To His Victorian:” House As a Reflection of the Father-Daughter Relationship in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.” Kultura Popularna: Homely Spaces 54, no 4 (2017): 60-67. DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0011.6720
“Expressing the Uncertainty, Reflecting Memory: The Role of Memorabilia in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.” In Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture. Ed. Izabella Kimak, Julia Nikiel, 93-102. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2017.
“The Witness of the Unspoken Experience: Postmemory in Bernice Eisenstein’s I Was A Child of Holocaust Survivors.” Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies 14, no 3 (2016): 58-68.
Starsze publikacje znajdują się na pełnej liście PBN
Inne
Aleksandra Kamińska holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies from the University of Warsaw and is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, UW. She is a graduate of the American Studies Center, and a member of its Gender/Sexuality Research Group. Kamińska received the Fulbright Award to advance her research at Columbia University (2018-2019) and is a National Science Center grantee (Etiuda, Preludium). Her interests focus on life narratives in popular culture and literature, queer temporalities, and girl as an identity category. Outside of academia, she aims to uplift gender and sexual minorities while reimagining dominant modes of production by publishing zines and books, curating and organizing performances, concerts, exhibitions, and workshops.