Dear Students,

The following classes will go online. Most probably you have already been contacted by your instructors. If not, it will take place soon.
We are aware that the intensive course by dr. J. Wendland planned for May may not take place. Yet, do not worry. We know that some of you need it badly to graduate on time.

Yours,
Małgorzata Gajda-Łaszewska

 

BA I Obligatory classes

Course name Instructor
United States and the World David Jones
History of American Cinema Paweł Frelik
Political Culture in the US Marcin Gajek
History of the United States II William Glass
Migrations, Race, and Ethnicity in the US Joanna Kulpińska
Academic Writing II Joanna Mąkowska
Emma Oki
Natalia Pamuła
Filip Boratyn
Blanka Kotlińska
Marta Werbanowska
Matthew Chambers
Alicja Relidzyńska

 

Electives

North American Fiction Today Joanna Mąkowska
Civil Liberties in the US David Jones
Politics of Film Noir Marta Usiekniewicz
Diplomacy Applied Ryszard Schnepf
Writing American Life Natalia Pamuła
Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies Ludmiła Janion, Aleksandra Kamińska, Anna Kurowicka
Migrations, Race and Ethnicity in the USA Joanna Kulpińska
NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles Anna Sosnowska-Jordanovska
American Science Fiction Cinema Paweł Frelik
Introduction to the American Civil War Zbigniew Kwiecień

 

BA II Obligatory classes

Economy of the United States Andrzej Kondratowicz
Am. Lit. II – lecture Grzegorz Kość
Am. Lit. II – sections Joanna Mąkowska
Marek Wilczyński
Aleksandra Kamińska
Anna Kurowicka
Antoni Górny
Jędrzej Burszta
Agnieszka Kotwasińska
Information Technology – sections Various Instructors
Intercultural Communication Paulina Orbitowska-Fernandez
Małgorzata Durska
Dariusz Zembrzuski
Key Methods in American Studies Various Instructors

 

BA III Obligatory classes

BA Seminar Anna Kurowicka
Alicja Fijałkowska-Myszyńska (Latin)
Natalia Pamuła
David Jones
Karolina Lebek
Włodzimierz Batóg
Grzegorz Kość
Paweł Frelik
Agnieszka Graff-Osser
Krystyna Mazur
Hector Calleros
Matthew Chambers
Zbigniew Kwiecień
Agnieszka Kotwasińska

 

BA II & III Electives

American Presidency David Jones
American Independent Cinema Magdalena Maksimiuk
Madness in American Culture Natalia Pamuła
Introduction to Body Studies Marta Usiekniewicz
Introduction to American Comics Emma Oki
Forced Migrations and the American Dream Joanna Kulpińska
American Television Series after 2000 Paweł Frelik
Technology and Automation in American Culture Anna Malinowska
New Media in/and Power Blanka Kotlińska
Militarism, Militarization and War Weronika Grzebalska
Latinx and Hispanic Identities Hector Calleros
Queering the Canon Krystyna Mazur
Native American Writings of Memory and Self Gabriela Jeleńska
20th/21st Century American Poetry Matthew Chambers
American Jewishness at the Turn of the 21st Century Karolina Krasuska
Congress Clifford Bates
The Monroe Doctrine Zbigniew Kwiecień

 

BA III Latin

Modern Latin American Issues Renata Siuda-Ambroziak
Futbal w Ameryce Łacińskiej Alicja FIjałkowska-Myszyńska
Spanish language class Ana Fornet
Spanish language class Luis Miletti

 

MA I

Course name Instructor
Research Seminar: Race in American Film Agnieszka Graff-Osser
Research Seminar: Dystopia and Its Uses Karolina Lebek
Research Seminar: Immigrants and Cities Anna Sosnowska-Jordanovska
Research Seminar: American Outsider Art Anna Malinowska
Research Seminar: Christianity in the New World Renata Siuda-Ambroziak
Research Seminar: Transatlantic Modernism Matthew Chambers
Research Seminar: Haunted America Agnieszka Kotwasińska
Research Seminar: Issues in American Political Thought Clifford Bates
Research Seminar: Urbanization and Mega-Cities Kacper Pobłocki
Senior Res. Lecture: Clips, Shorts, Videos Paweł Frelik
Senior Res. Lecture: Voyages of the Self Marek Wilczyński
Senior Res. Lecture: Power and Its Discontents Elżbieta Korolczuk
Practical Spanish Luis Miletti
Paulina Bojarska
Advanced Practical English Dariusz Zembrzuski
Anna Mejer

 

MA II

Seminar Tomasz Basiuk
Seminar Paweł Frelik
Seminar Marcin Gajek
Seminar William Glass
Seminar Marta Usiekniewicz

 

OGUN

Course name Instructor
Contemporary Latin American Film Tomasz Rudowski
The Sixties Włodzimierz Batóg
Seeing Is Believing Włodzimierz Batóg
America Under Trump Ryszard Schnepf
American Television Series after 2000 Paweł Frelik
El Caribe: Unidad en diversidad Katarzyna Dembicz
The Korean War 1950-1953 Zbigniew Kwiecień
African American Film after the Civil Rights Movement Krystyna Mazur

 

American Studies Colloquium Series

March 20: Limits to/of Representation: Intersectional and Gender-Based Violence in Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River

March 12, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the second lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025 Spring semester! This time, we are joined by Dr Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová of Charles University, who will offer a nuanced analysis of Taylor Sheridan’s directorial debut Wind River through the categories of representation as inclusion and representation as portrayal.

Year 2024/2025

March 14: SPLOT Artemis Generation Open Event: To Boldly Go Or Not: Human Futures in Space

March 11, 2025

After a decades-long slowdown of extra-terrestrial exploration, humanity seems poised to return to space. Some visions of this return are very ambitious, but much remains unclear about the feasibility, the scope, and the cost of expanding beyond the third planet from the Sun. To think through these (and other) aspects through the lens of science fiction, space psychology, design and architecture, SPLOT Artemis Generation in collaboration with the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, is hosting a discussion panel featuring Dr. Joanna Jurga, Dr. Agnieszka Skorupa, and Prof. Sherryl Vint and moderated by Prof. Paweł Frelik.

Year 2024/2025

March 13: Anachronistic Retrofuturism and the Cosmic Indifference of the Workplace

March 5, 2025

This talk centers the anachronistic office work setting and technologies of the tv series Severance (2022–) to argue that the series exemplifies the aesthetic techniques of the Weird even as it reorients the site of horror from the indifference of the universe to the sociopathy of neoliberal capitalism. If the original concept of Weird Fiction stressed the impotence of human beings within a universe ruled by forces that greatly exceed our power and that are, at best, indifferent to our fate, Severance confirms that these forces are, worse, malign as it locates them in the corporate priorities of the tech company Lumon Industries and its reduction of humans to human capital.

News

Extending the ELS

March 3, 2025

Extending the ELS (electronic student ID) validity will take place on March 17 – 20, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

American Studies Colloquium Series

March 6: Bending Reality to Economics

March 1, 2025

We are delighted to invite you to the first lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025 Spring semester! This talk examines the nested narrative of Hernan Diaz’s novel Trust as a motif by which the novel engages with the form of the financialized economy, in parallel with how its plot reflects on the lives of New York’s financial elite. By reframing the story of the 1929 crash through several mediations from the ‘reality’—a novel-with-the-novel, notes for a biography, reflections on this process by the ghost writer of said biography, and finally a personal journal—Trust draws our attention to the financialized economy as an exercise of substituting models for the thing itself, with inevitable distortions and lost data.