dr hab. Tomasz Basiuk, prof. ucz.

profile: ORCID

Room 1.027

Office hours in Spring semester 2024/25:
Thursdays, 10:15 – 11:15

Prof. Basiuk’s research interests include contemporary American fiction and life writing, critical theory, and queer studies. He has authored two monographs and edited or co-edited eight volumes and special journal issues in American studies and in gender and sexuality studies. He is a founding co-editor of InterAlia, a queer studies e-journal established in 2006. He was PI in a HERA-funded queer history project (“CRUSEV”) and is a Fulbright alumnus. Currently, he is PI in the “QueerIt: Queer Theory in Transit” project conducted jointly with Humboldt University Berlin. He served as ASC director and as president of the Polish Association for American Studies and has been serving as director of the Institute of the Americas and Europe, of which the ASC is a part, since 2016.

Role at the ASC

Director, Institute of the Americas and Europe (of which ASC is a part) since 2016

Director, American Studies Center, 2005 – 2012

Achievements

Principal Investigator, “Queer Theory in Transit: Reception, Translation and Production of Queer Theory in Polish and German Academic Contexts (QueerIt),” a projected funded by NCN and DfG, 2023-2026.

Principal Investigator, “Cruising the 1970s: Unearthing pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures” (CRUSEV), a project funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA), 2016 – 2019

President, Polish Association for American Studies, 2013 – 2021

President, American Studies Network, 2013 – 2015

Senior Fulbright Research Grantee, The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, 2004 – 2005

Publications

Odmieńczość: obywatelstwo seksualne i archiwum pod red. Tomasza Basiuka, Jędrzeja Burszty i Agnieszki Kościańskiej (Wydawnictwa UW, 2024).

Reading Literature at the Intersections of Queer and Class. Class Notes and Queer-ies, edited by Maria Alexopoulos, Tomasz Basiuk, Susanne Hochreiter and Tijana Ristic Kern (Routledge, 2024).

“The Intelligibility of Coming Out as Gay.” The Politics of Transparency in Modern American Fiction: Fear, Secrecy, and Exposure, edited by Paula Martin-Salván and Sascha Pöhlmann (Rochester: Camden House [Boydell & Brewer], 2024), 83-103.

“Interviews as Life Writing? A Literary Scholar’s Field Notes on Reciprocal Witnessing in Oral History.” Inspecting the Interview. A Companion, edited by Carsten Junker (DrGruyter, 2024), 177-199.

“Conceptualizing Vulnerability in Cultural Historiography — A Conversation” (with Carsten Junker). Vulnerability. Real, Imagined, and Displayed Fragility in Language and Society, edited by Silvia Bonacchi (V&R Unipress, 2024), 223-228.

“Spatial and Temporal Theories of Performatives and Performativity.” Performative Identities in Culture, edited by Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup and Beata Zawadka (Brill, 2024), 15-27.

“Menachem Kaiser’s Quest for Family Heirloom and the Aftermath of Historical Trauma.” Porównania, 34(2) [2023]: 53-62.

“Five Contemporary Polish Artists Engaging with Race.” Art and Race in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, special issue of Art Margins Online. Contemporary Art Across the Evolving Global Peripheries, 20 Jan. 2021,

Queers in State Socialism. Cruising 1970s Poland, edited by Tomasz Basiuk and Jędrzej Burszta (Routledge, 2020).

„Od niepisanej umowy milczenia do protopolityczności: dyskursywny i sieciowy charakter społeczności osób homoseksualnych w ‘długich latach 70.’ w historii mówionej i epistolografii.” InterAlia: pismo poświęcone studiom queer, 14 (2019): 28 – 50.

“Coming Out in Poland.” European Journal for American Studies. 13.3 (2018).

“LGBTQ and Polish Patriarchy.” Poland’s Memory Wars. Essays on Illiberalism, edited by Jo Harper, Central European University Press, 2018, pp. 196 – 202. [Published also in German and Polish translations.]

Exposures. American Gay Men’s Life Writing since Stonewall, Peter Lang, 2013.

Wielki Gaddis. Realista postmodernistyczny, Świat Literacki, 2003.

Courses (selected)

Introduction to American Studies

Testimony

Andy Warhol

Camp

AIDS Narratives

Aspects of American Literary Culture

Hobbies/non-academic interests

Contemporary art