Assistant Professor
History and Culture of English-Speaking Countries Unit
Humanities Centre, room 211
telephone: 89 524 65 20
e-mail: jlask@o2.pl
duty hours: Fridays 10.00-11.30 A.M.
Degrees
1993
M.A. degree in English philology awarded by the Institute of English Philology at the University of Warsaw. The title of the M.A. thesis: "The Journalistic Elements in Ambrose Bierce's Satirical Stories." Supervisor: professor Agata Preis-Smith (University of Warsaw).
2005
Ph.D. degree in Humanities (Literature) awarded by the Neophilological Faculty at the University of Warsaw. The title of the Ph.D. thesis: "Escape from Americanness - Transforming the Project of U.S. Cultural Nationalism." Supervisor: professor Piotr Skurowski (Uniwersytet Warszawski). Reviewers: professor Agata Preis-Smith (University of Warsaw), professor Mirosława Ziaja-Buchholtz (Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń).
Teaching and research job categories
1995 - 2005
Assistant Lecturer at the Chair of English Philology of the Higher Pedagogical School in Olsztyn (transformed into the University of Warmia and Mazury in 1999);
2006 -
Assistant Professor at the Chair of English Philology at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.
Teaching
Courses taught at UWM in Olsztyn in the years 1995-2010:
Media language analysis - tutorials, lectures;
Contemporary Cultural Studies theories - lectures;
UK and US Culture - tutorials, lectures;
American Literature - tutorials;
Media in Popular Culture - lectures;
Methodology of Cultural Studies Research - lectures;
Practical English: Grammar, Writing, Speaking, Translation - tutorials;
BA Seminar: Film Adaptation;
MA Seminar: Film Adaptation;
MA Seminar: British and American Short Story;
Theory and Practice of Literary Translation - lectures.
Descriptions of my seminars
SHORT STORY - GENRES, TECHNIQUES, CULTURAL CONTEXTS
The seminar participants read and analyse short stories by selected American and British authors, e.g. Donald Barthelme, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Pat Cadigan, Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Gibson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry James, M.R. James, Herman Melville, Edgar A. Poe, Alice Sheldon, Mary Wilkins Freeman, etc. The course also introduces the students to 20th century theories of literature and the short story genre, and offers guidelines for M.A. thesis writing.
THE PROS AND CONS OF ADAPTING LITERATURE INTO FILM
The aim of this seminar is to familiarize the students with selected cultural and ideological aspects of the production and reception of film versions of the so-called canonical works of literature, particularly in the context of commercialization of the film industry and its being influenced by the new media. The seminar participants also study main research paradigms in the field of adaptation studies and learn how to write an M.A. thesis.
Research
Research visits
Library queries at the JFK Institute in Berlin and the British Library in London.
Publications in the years 1999-2010
Chapters in monographs
1. "O Dżumie Alberta Camusa,"O literaturze i filozofii. Problemy - twórcy - dzieła, ed. Witold Tulibacki and Zygmunt Frydryszak, Olsztyn: Wydawnictwo ART, 1999, pp. 361-365.
2. "The Importance of Being Truthful. The Status of Realism in American Literary Criticism,"Reflections on Ethical Values in Post(?)Modern American Literature, ed. Teresa Pyzik and Paweł Jędrzejko, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2000, pp. 162-174.
3. "The American South - The Glory of Separateness,"American Portraits and Self-Portraits, ed. Jerzy Durczak, Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press, 2002, pp. 211-223.
4. "Ciało bez granic," Obraz Kanady w Polsce, ed. Mirosława Buchholtz, Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2003, pp. 357-368.
5. "The Dis/Empowerment of Madonna," Representing Gender in Cultures, ed. Elżbieta H. Oleksy and Joanna Rydzewska, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2004, pp. 129-138.
6. "Degrees of Domestication - Bridget Jones in Polish Translations," Przekładając nieprzekładalne II , ed. Olga Kubińska and Wojciech Kubiński, Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, pp. 303-310.
7. "Portrety dam we współczesnym świecie zabawy," Filmowe gry z twórczością Henry'ego Jamesa. Transpozycje, komentarze, analogie, ed. Mirosława Buchholtz, Toruń: Wydawnictwo UMK, 2005, pp. 181-206.
8. "Knowledge in the Land of Apophenia," Worlds in the Making: Constructivism and Postmodern Knowledge, ed. Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, Teresa Siek-Piskozub, Katarzyna Więckowska, Toruń: Wydawnictwo UMK, 2006, pp. 335-342.
9. "Soaped in Translation: Bleak House, BBC, and the Populist Imperative," Literature and/in Culture, ed. Grzegorz Maziarczyk and Sławomir Wącior, Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 2007, pp. 131-142.
10. "Finisterre - Archiving the London Nobody Wants to Know", Images of the City, ed. Magdalena Cieślak and Agnieszka Rasmus, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp. 231-241.
11. "Hunting for Racism - Online Citizen Critics' Reviews of Kevin MacDonald's The Last King of Scotland", Tools of their Tools: Communication Technologies and American Cultural Practice, ed. Grzegorz Kość and Krzysztof Majer, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp. 130-140.
12. "Pomiędzy wiedzą a grozą - Hawthorne, Gilman, Bierce, Lovecraft," W kanonie prozy amerykańskiej. Z placu Waszyngtona do Domu z liści, ed. Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Szkoły Wyższej Psychologii Społecznej „Academica", 2009, pp. 30-46.
13. "Breaking the Fourth Wall, or Tristram Shandy in the World of Celebrity Culture," From Queen to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture, Warszawa: Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich UW, 2009, pp. 293-302.
14. "Interiorizing Ideologies - Race, Nation, and Masculinity in Mark Behr's The Smell of Apples", Interiors: Interiority/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse, ed. Sonia Front and Katarzyna Nowak, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, pp. 131-146.
15. "The World's Longest One Way Mirror: Contemporary American (Literary) Studies in Search of a Postnational Poetics." Beyond Imagined Uniqueness: Nationalisms in Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Joan Burbick and William Glass, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, pp. 291-304.
Articles
1. "The Influence of Journalistic Techniques on Ambrose Bierce's Satirical Stories," Acta Neophilologica, vol. 1, ed. Albert Bartoszewicz, Olsztyn: Wydawnictwo UWM, 1999, pp. 99-110.
2. "American Studies in the Postnational Context", Acta Neophilologica, vol. 2, ed. Albert Bartoszewicz, Olsztyn: Wydawnictwo UWM, 2000, pp. 123-131.
3. "Poe - A Case of Denationalization,"Acta Neophilologica, vol. 3, ed. Albert Bartoszewicz, Olsztyn: Wydawnictwo UWM, 2001, pp. 177-185.
4. "Approaching the unfamiliar - William Gibson's Idoru and Neuromancer in Polish translations,"Translation and Meaning. Part 6. Proceedings of the Łódź Session of the 3rd International Maastricht-Łódź Duo Colloquium on "Translation and Meaning", Held in Łódź, Poland, 22-24 September 2000, ed. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcel Thelen, Maastricht: Hogeschool Zuyd, Maastricht School of Translation and Interpreting, 2002, pp. 435-443.
5. "Resistance and Accommodation: Edgar A. Poe's 'Nationalist' Episode," Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English. PASE Papers in Culture and Literature, ed. Władysław Witalisz and Peter Leese, Kraków: Instytut Filologii Angielskiej UJ, 2002, pp. 353-360.
6. "X znaczy dziesięć", Ubik Fantastyka, nr 3/2003, Kraków, Wydawnictwo GoTo, pp. 57-60.
7. "Southern Nationalism - an Anti-Yankee Version of Americanness," Acta Neophilologica, vol. 4, ed.Albert Bartoszewicz,Olsztyn: Wydawnictwo UWM, 2002.
8. "Panika moralna w wersji online - przypadek Romana Polańskiego." Nowe zjawiska w języku, tekście i komunikacji III. Kontekst a komunikacja. Olsztyn: Centrum Badań Europy Wschodniej UWM, 2011, pp. 300-311.
Publications in print
1. "Poe Goes Pop, or Adapting The Fall of the House of Usher in the 21st Century."
2. "'Seek and Ye Shall Mind' - Conspiracy Theories and the Mechanisms of Online Exposure."
3. "The Red Road to Redemption, or the Theory of Surveillance for Individual Use" (in the conference proceedings volume).
4. "W objęciach ideologii - rodzinne wnętrze w The Smell of Apples Marka Behra" (in the Polish language version of the conference proceedings volume).
5. "'Smilers, Defilers, Reekers and Leakers' - Dogs as Tools of Subversion and Transgression in Short Stories by Edgar A. Poe, Mark Twain, and Ambrose Bierce."
6. "In the Land of Ghost-signs, or William Gibson's Spook Country."
Articles to be reviewed
1. "Americanists of the World, Unite! Or the World-wide Fear of Globalization."
2. "Between Cultural Studies and Philology: Devising a Media Curriculum."
3. "Libra - bezmiar równowagi."
4. "Oswajanie tabu - filmowe adaptacje Zagłady domu Usherów."
5. "Toni Morrison - Umiłowana."
Academic translations
In Kultura, tekst, ideologia. Dyskursy współczesnej amerykanistyki, ed. Agata Preis-Smith. Kraków: Universitas, 2004:
1. Edward Said -"Świat, tekst, krytyk"("The World, the Text, and the Critic").
2. Gerald Graff -"Amerykanistyka z lewa i prawa"("American Criticism Left and Right").
3. Larry McCaffery - "Fikcje teraźniejszości" ("Fictions of the Present").
In Państwo - naród - tożsamość w dyskursach kulturowych Kanady, ed. Mirosława Buchholtz and Eugenia Sojka. Kraków: Universitas, 2010:
1. William Beard - "Kanadyjskość Davida Croneberga" ("The Canadianness of David Cronenberg").
2. Ajay Heble - "Dźwięki zmiany: dysonans, historia, i kulturowe słuchanie" ("Sounds of Change: Dissonance, History, and Cultural Listening").
3. George Melnyk - "Film w wielkim mieście: miejskość wkanadyjskim kinie"("Film and the City: Urbanity in Canadian Cinema").
Conferences, Seminars, Workshops
1. International PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Conference: "Reflections on Ethical Values in Post(?)Modern American Literature" - Ustroń, 21-24 Oct 1998.
2. International PASE (Polish Association for the Study of English) Conference - Wrocław, 19-21 Apr 1999.
3. International PASE (Polish Association for the Study of English) Conference - Gdańsk, 24-26 Apr 2000.
4. "American Icons" Workshop/Seminar - Puławy, 9-11 Feb 2001.
5. International PASE (Polish Association for the Study of English) Conference - Kraków, 25-27 Apr 2001.
6. International Conference: "Cognitivism in Poetics and Stylistics"- Łódź, 17-19 Sep 2001.
7. International PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Conference: "American Portraits and Self-portraits" - Puławy, 11-14 Nov 2001.
8. "Ethnicity and Gender in the United States" (American Studies seminar) - Łódź, 14-16 Mar 2002.
9. Training Seminar for Teaching Translation (workshop/seminar for translation studies teachers) - Vicenza, Italy, 22-26 July 2002.
10. International Conference: "Representing Gender in Cultures" - Łódź, 19-22 Sep 2002.
11. "Language and Visual Communication" conference - Łódź, 23-24 Sep 2002.
12. "Translating the Untranslatable" conference - Gdańsk, 23-25 Oct 2002.
13. International PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Conference: "Traveling Subjects: American Journeys in Space and Time" - Wrocław, 10-13 Nov 2002.
14. "The American City: Past and Present" (American Studies seminar) - Toruń, 13-14 Mar 2003.
15. International Conference: "Mythologies: From Construction to Transgression, Changes in American and British Social Life, Culture, and Literature" - Obrzycko, 8-10 Sep 2003.
16. "The Many American Wests" (American Studies seminar) - Łódź, 21-25 Sep 2003.
17. International Conference: "Constructing Worlds: Constructivism and the Changing Status of Knowledge" - Toruń, 3-5 Feb 2005.
18. International Conference : "The Łódź Session of the 4th International Maastricht-Lodz Duo Colloquium on "Translation and Meaning" - Łódź,23-25 Sep 2005.
19. International PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Conference: "Conformity and Resistance in America" - Kamień Śląski,23-25 Oct 2005.
20. "The Linguistic Image of the World in the Original and in Translation" Applied Linguistics Institute conference - Warszawa,25-27 Nov 2005.
21. "Bridges Across the Nations: African American Culture in the 21st Century" (American Studies seminar) - Puławy,2-5 Feb 2006.
22. International PASE (Polish Association for the Study of English) Conference - Puławy,24-26 Apr 2006.
23. International PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Conference: "Ideology and Rhetoric: Constructing America"- Warszawa,26-28 Oct 2006.
24. International Conference: "Camouflage. Voyeurism, Exhibition. Discourses and Practices of Deception, Surveillance, and Transparency" - Ustroń, 19-22 Sep 2007.
25. International Conference: "From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British literature and culture" - Warszawa, 17-19 Oct 2007.
26. International Conference: "Images of the City" - Łódź, 25-27 Oct 2007.
27. International PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Conference: "Communication Technologies and American Cultural Practice" - Łódź,7-9 Nov 2007.
28. International PASE Conference - Wrocław, 7-9 Apr 2008.
29. International American Studies Center (University of Warsaw) Conference: "Beyond Imagined Uniqueness: Nationalisms in Comparative Perspective" - Warszawa, 19-21 May 2008.
30. International Conference: "Interiors" - Ustroń, 18-21 Sep 2008.
31. International American Studies and Mass Media Faculty (University of Łódź) Conference: "Transatlantic Encounters: American Studies in the 21st Century" - Łódź, 27-30 Sep 2008.
32. International PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Conference: "The Past in the Present: The American Uses of History" - Warszawa, 22-24 Oct 2008.
33. "Studying Communication" conference, organized by the Chair of Semantics and Linguistic Semiotics (University of Łódź) - Łódź, 16-18 Apr 2009.
34. "Edgar Allan Poe - An Artist and a Visionary" conference organized by the English Philology Unit (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn) - Olsztyn,6-7 May 2009.
35. International PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Conference - Puławy, 21-23 Oct 2009.
36. International Conference: "Against and Beyond: Subversion and Transgression In Drama, Theatre, Film and Media," organized by the Chair of Drama and Old English Literature (University of Łódź) - Łódź, 22-24 Oct 2009.
37. "Degeneration - Literature, Culture, Language, Translation Studies" conference, organized by Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Candidates' Research Unit (University of Gdańsk) - Gdańsk, 10-12 Mar 2010.
38. International Conference: "Theory That Matters," organized by the Institute of American Literature and Culture (University of Łódź) - Łódź, 7-9 Apr 2010.
39. International PASE (Polish Association for the Study of English) Conference - Kalisz, 19-21 Apr 2010.
40. "New Trends in Language, Text and Communication. III Edition. Context and Communication" conference, organized by the Institute of Polish Philology (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn) - Olsztyn, 7-8 May 2010.
41. International Conference: "Civilisation and Fear. Writing and the Subjects of Ideology," organized by the University of Silesia - Ustroń, 22-25 Sep 2010.
42. International PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Conference: "American Diversity: Identities, Narratives, Politics" - Łódź,20-23 Oct 2010.
43. International Conference "(Re)Visions of History in Language and Fiction," organized by UMK - Toruń, 19-20 Nov 2010.
44. "Fashions in Literature and Culture" conference, organized by the Institute of Polish Philology (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn) - Olsztyn, 13-14 April 2011.
45. International PASE Conference "In Comparison," organized by UMK - Toruń, 12-14 May 2011.
46. International "Intercom 2011" Conference, organized by the Academy of International Relations in Łódź - Łódź, 3-5 June 2011.
47. International PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies) Conference: "American Experience - the Experience of America" - Gdańsk, 19-21 October 2011.
48. International Conference "All That Gothic" - organized by the University of Łódź - Łódź, 17-19 November 2011.
B.A. thesis supervisor (Cultural Studies)
1. Magda Białowicz - "The Complexity of Female Characters in The Hours by Michael Cunnigham and Its Film Adaptation."
2. Rozalia Biesiekierska - "Practicing the Theory of Gaze: Two Film Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice."
3. Martyna Brunka - "Christian Values in A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks and Its Cinematic Version."
4. Maciej Charytoniak - "Clive Cussler's Sahara and Its Cinematic Representation - a Case of Failed Adaptation."
5. Jakub Dowgun - "The Nature of Humanity in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Its Film Adaptation."
6. Katarzyna Figurska - "Reinterpreting Class and Gender - Jane Austen's Emma and Its Film Adaptations by Douglas McGrath's and Amy Heckerling."
7. Jakub Fila - "Conceptualizing Selected Characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers and Its Film Adaptation by Peter Jackson."
8. Paulina Jankowska - "George Orwell's Animal Farm and Its Two Film Adaptations."
9. Agata Jarzyło - "John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Its Film Adaptation."
10. Gabriela Katkowska - "Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Its Two Film Adaptations."
11. Łukasz Komorowski - "The Monster's Search for Indentity in Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheusy Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Its Film Adaptations: Frankenstein by James Whale and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh."
12. Anna Kowalska - "Human Nature in William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Its Two Film Adaptations."
13. Izabela Łagun- "J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as a Teenage Thriller and Its Film Adaptation."
14. Karolina Matusiak - "Characters in The Great Gatsby and Its Two Film Adaptations."
15. Mirosława Oleszak - "Sexualization in Two Adaptations of V. Nabokov's Lolita."
16. Jarosław Olszewski - "H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and Its Two Cinematic Versions."
17. Anna Paczkowska - "Staying True to the Spirit of the Story: Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Its Film Adaptation."
18. Dariusz Piłat - "Criticism of the Consumer Society in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Its Film Adaptation."
19. Paweł Podgórski - "The Totalitarian System in George Orwell's 1984 and Its 1984 Film Adaptation."
20. Aleksandra Podsiadło - "The Right Man in the Right Place. Choices Behind Actors' Impersonations of Literary Heroes in Film Adaptations."
21. Izabela Rudź - "The Code Hero in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and Its Two Film Adaptations."
22. Emilia Sikora - "In Search of Hamlet: Three Cinematic Visions by Kenneth Branagh, Franco Zeffirelli, and Michael Almereyda."
23. Rafał Sykuła - "Stanley Kubrick's Adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining - a Comparative Study and the Response of the Audiences."
24. Adam Szumorek - "In the Land of Aslan: the Mythical and Theological Motifs in C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Its Cinematic Version" (Award in "The best BA thesis" competition at the Faculty of Humanities, UWM).
25. Sabina Świderska - "Gothic Elements in Three Film Adaptations of Edgar A. Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher."
26. Ewelina Telega - "Portraying a Mental Disease in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Its Two Film Adaptations."
27. Adam Wasilewski - "Shakespeare Reinterpreted - Some Modern-Day Practices of Adaptation and Appropriation."
28. Ewelina Wróblewska - "Cultural Issues in Selected Film Adaptations of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew."
M.A. thesis supervisor (Cultural Studies)
1. Bartosz Borys - "Visualizing the Unimaginable - in Search of a Recipe for a Successful Lovecraft Film Adaptation."
2. Agnieszka Brydzińska - "Agata Christie's Miss Marple in Three Film Adaptations."
3. Marta Brzozowska - "Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Its Two Film Adaptations."
4. Wioletta Brzozowska - "Narration in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Its Film and Comic Versions."
5. Rafał Chochowski - "Imagining History in Winston Groom's Forrest Gump and Its Film Adaptation."
6. Grzegorz Chyra - "The Value of Film Adaptation. The Case of The Colour of Magic."
7. Anna Gacioch - "The Cultural Contexts in The White Masai and Its Film Adaptation."
8. Iwona Iwańska - "Narrative Devices in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Its 1998 Adaptation."
9. Magdalena Jarosz - "The Time Machine - Two Cinematic Visions of H.G. Wells's Novel."
10. Anna Kieljan - "Why Did the House Collapse? The Interpretation of the Ending of The Fall of the House of Usher and Its Three Film Adaptations."
11. Marzena Klekowicka - "Different Prides and Prejudices: Extending the Concept of a Failed/Successful Adaptation."
12. Barbara Klimowska-Lewandowska - "Elements of Horror in The Turn of the Screw and Its Two Film Adaptations."
13. Bartłomiej Kos - "The Concept of Cosmic Fear and Its Cinematic Representation in the Film Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft's Short Stories and William Peter Blatty's Horror Novels."
14. Magdalena Kowalewska - "The Satirical Genre in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Its Film Adaptations."
15. Agnieszka Kryszewska - "Macbeth Updated - Three Adaptations of Shakespeare's Darkest Tragedy."
16. Ewa Kulągowska - "The Horror Genre in Silent Hill and Its Film Adaptation."
17. Magdalena Kwiatkowska - "Interpreting Alice - Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Its Film Adaptations."
18. Elżbieta Lenkiewicz - "Changing Models of Femininity on the Basis of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary."
19. Iwona Lepka - "The Motif of Coming Out in Maurice by E.M. Forster, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx - the Significance and Social Impact of the Queer Cinema and Literature" (special mention in "The best MA thesis" competition at the Faculty of Humanities, UWM).
20. Magdalena Litwiniuk - "Love, War and History in The English Patient and Its Film Adaptation."
21. Anna Niska - "The Influence of Totalitarian Doctrines On the Selected Adaptations of Dystopias by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Alan Moore, and William Golding."
22. Marcin Panfiłow - "The Target Audience of the Film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in the Light of the Relations Among the Main Characters."
23. Anna Puszcz - "William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Its Two Cinematic Representations."
24. Arkadiusz Raźniak - "Monstrosity in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Three Film Adaptations of the Novel."
25. Joanna Romanik - "Three Cinematic Visions of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë."
26. Urszula Smolińska - "Downfall of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Its 1974 Film Adaptation."
27. Martyna Sobiech - "Generic Conventions in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Its 1994 Film Adaptation."
28. Agnieszka Sokołowska - "The Motif of Maturity and Spiritual Transformation in The Painted Veil."
29. Alicja Stec - "20th Century American Gothic: Stephen King's The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption, and Their Film Adaptations."
30. Łukasz Stelmaszczyk - "Black Humor in Ambrose Bierce's Satirical Stories."
31. Aleksandra Szarek - "Breakfast at Tiffany's - Understanding Cultural Differences between Truman Capote's Novella and the Film Adaptation Directed by Blake Edwards."
32. Katarzyna Szpechar - "The Problem of Narrative Description of Kurtz in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola."
33. Ewa Zbyszyńska - "Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet as a Postmodern Movie."
M.A. thesis supervisor (Literary Studies)
1. Magdalena Ataniel - "Naturalism in Jack London's early short story collections."
2. Monika Bartłomowicz - "The Role and the Status of Women at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries in Short Stories by M. Wilkins Freeman, Ch. Perkins Gilman and E. Wharton."
3. Rozalia Biesiekierska - "The Issue of Authorship: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter and Birthmark."
4. Maciej Charytoniak -"South Park as a Contemporary Short Story: A Generic Analysis of the Series."
5. Marta Lubowiecka - "Female vs. Male Gothic: A Generic Analysis of Selected Short Stories."
6. Agata Piotrowska - "The Image and Role of Black Women in Selected Works of Afro-American Literature in the Context ofSlavery and Racial Inequality."
7. Paweł Podgórski - "Self-destruction of Humanity in Selected Works of U.S. Science Fiction Literature."
8. Ewa Seredziuk - "Living the American Dream: Portraits of Maturation in F. S. Fitzgerald's Short Fiction."
9. Celina Sobieska - "The Image of the South and the Southerner in the Selected Works of American Literature."
10. Katarzyna Szcześniak - "The Villain Figure in Edgar A. Poe's Gothic Short Stories."
11. Rafał Szymaniewicz - "Dystopic Visions of the Future in Harlan Ellison's Speculative Fiction Short Stories."
44.