Biografia:

Dominika Ferens, prof. UWr, prowadzi na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim zajęcia z literatury i kultury amerykańskiej. Stopień doktora uzyskała na Uniwersytecie Kalifornijskim w Los Angeles (1999), a stopień doktora habilitowanego na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim (2010). W pracach badawczych zajmuje się przede wszystkim literaturą amerykańskich mniejszości rasowych, pograniczem etnografii i literatury, teoriami rasy, płci i seksualności, oraz teoriami afektów. Obecnie pisze książkę na temat twórczości Sigrid Nunez i współredaguje zbiór esejów pt. Shape Shifting Sensibilities: New Approaches to Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna (po recenzjach w McGill Queen’s University Press). Pracowała na uniwersytetach w Hanowerze, Tomsku i Los Angeles. Dwukrotnie przebywała na stypendium Fulbrighta (1994-1996, 2020). Jest współzałożycielką i współredaktorką  elektronicznego czasopisma InterAlia: Pismo poświęcone studiom queer. W latach 2011-2014 pełniła funkcję prezesem Polskiego Towarzystwa Studiów Amerykanistycznych.

Publikacje:

(1)      Monografie autorskie

Ways of Knowing Small Places: Intersections of American Literature and Ethnography since the 1960s. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2010.

Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

• Redakcja tomów zbiorowych

Recasting Winnifred Eaton: New Approaches to Onoto Watanna. Co-editor with Rena Heinrich and Shoshannah Ganz. McGill-Queen’s University Press, under review.

Literary and Cultural Perspectives of the Hinterlands. Co-editor with Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, and Marcin Tereszewski. Routledge, Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory, 2024.

Eating America: Crisis, Sustenance, Sustainability. Co-Editor with Justyna Kociatkiewicz and Laura Suchostawska. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015.

Out Here: Local and International Perspectives in Queer Studies. Co-editor with Tomasz Basiuk and Tomasz Sikora. Amersham: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006.

Parametry pożądania: Kultura odmieńców wobec homofobii. [Parameters of Desire: Queer Culture vs. Homophobia]. Co-editor withTomasz Basiuk and Tomasz Sikora. Kraków: Universitas, 2006.

Traveling Subjects: American Journeys in Space and Time. Co-editor with Justyna Kociatkiewicz and Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak. Kraków: Rabid, 2004.

A Queer Mixture: Gender perspectives on Minority Sexual Identities. Co-editor withTomasz Basiuk and Tomasz Sikora. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Śląsk, 2002.

• Numery tematyczne czasopism

InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies 11a (2016), Special Issue: Ugly Bodies: Queer Perspectives on Illness, Disability, and Aging. Co-editor withTomasz Sikora. Introduction: Let’s Talk about (Queer) Sex”

InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies 11b (2016), Special Issue: Brzydkie ciała: Queer wobec choroby, niepełnosprawności i starości. Co-editor withTomasz Sikora.

InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies 5 (2010), Feminist Issue: Is There a Gay Bias in Queer Studies? Co-editor with Krystyna Mazur.

• Artykuły       

“Sigrid Nunez’s Minority Cosmopolitanism and the Ethics of Interest.” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 59 (2025), forthcoming.

“Narrative Hospitality: Sigrid Nunez’s Poetics of Fragmentation.” Review of International American Studies, forthcoming.

“Aerial Views, Pedestrian Ways: Fragmentation in D. J. Waldie’s Holy Land.” Flyover Fictions. Eds. Sascha Pöhlman and Cornelia Klecker. Lincoln: Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 2025.

“Fragmentation.” Experimental Life Writing Today. Eds. Vanessa Guignery and Wojciech Drąg. Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025.

“How Does It Feel to Be at Univeristy: Affect in Contemporary North American Campus Fiction.” Academic Journal of Modern Philology 22 (2024): 107-117.

“The Transnational Hinterlands of Los Angeles in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange.” Literary and Cultural Perspectives of the Hinterlands. Eds. Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, et al. Routledge, 2024. 25-38.

“Editors’ Introduction. Hinterlands: A Return of the Outside.” Co-author with Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Marcin Tereszewski, and Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice. Literary and Cultural Perspectives of the Hinterlands. Eds. Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, et al. Routledge, 2024. 1-22.

“Afektywny i emocjonalny potencjał Następnym razem pożar” [The Affective and Emotional Potential of The Fire Next Time]. James Baldwin. Ed. Anna Pochmara. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2021.

“Affect and Form in the Writings of the Eaton Sisters.” Asian American Literature in Transition, Volume One: 1850-1930. Eds. Josephine Lee and Julia Lee. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 207-226.

“Dlaczego Brokeback Mountain nie jest tragedią?” [Why Is Brokeback Mountain not a Tragedy?]. Annie Proulx. Ed. Marek Paryż. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2020. 139-156.

“Silence, Sound, and Affect.” Res Rhetorica 7.4 (2020): 32-48.

“Lissa: An EthnoGraphic Experiment.” Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature: Formal Intersections between Narrative Fiction and Other Media 44.2 (2020): 83-98.

“Narrating Chaos: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE and Korean American Fragmentary Writings.” Anglica Wratislaviensia 57 (2019): 25-35.

“Intersections of American Literature and Ethnography.” Český lid/The Czech Ethnological Journal 103.3 (2016): 371-394.

“Prolínání literatury a etnografie ve Spojených státech amerických.” Český lid/The Czech Ethnological Journal 103.3 (2016): 395-418.

“Can the Home Be Interesting? Homeliness and Affects in Contemporary Asian American Fiction.” Contemporary Literary Studies 13 (2016) [Kiev National Linguistics University, Ukraine]: 694-704.

 “Belated Interest: Reading the Fiction of Sigrid Nunez through Silvan Tomkins’s Affect Theory.” Spectrum of Emotions. Eds. Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak and Wojciech Drąg. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016. 113-122.

“Big fish: On the Relative Popularity of Zane Grey and Ernest Hemingway.” Unpopular Culture. Eds. Sascha Pöhlman and Martin Lüthe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016.

“Let’s Talk about (Queer) Sex.” Co-authored with Tomasz Sikora. InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies. Ugly Bodies: Queer Perspectives on Illness, Disability, and Aging 11a (2016): i-iv.

“Pogadajmy o (kalekim) seksie.” Co-authored with Tomasz Sikora. InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies. Brzydkie ciała: Queer wobec choroby, niepełnosprawności i starości 11b (2016): i-viii.

“’Where the Wild Things Are’: Excursions into Mixed-Race Literature through Affect Theory.” Wild Zones: Space, Experience, Consciousness. Eds. Jacek Partyka and Jerzy Kamionowski. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015. 93-104.

“Between Taste and Interest: Reading Asian American Literature in the Age of Food Literacy.” Eating America: Crisis, Sustenance, Sustainability. Eds. Justyna Kociatkiewicz, Laura Suchostawska, and Dominika Ferens. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015. 277-296.

“Literature, Ethnography, and Self-representation in a Globalizing World.” Interstudia 15, Special Issue: Cultural Representations in the Era of Globalization (2014):73-85.

“Zane Grey.” Amerykański western literacki w XX wieku. Między historią, fantazją a ideologią. Agata Preis-Smith and Marek Paryż, eds. Warszawa: Czuły Barbarzyńca, 2013. 36-57.

“A Pole with a Stake in Asian American Studies” [translated into Chinese]. Global Identities: Local Voices. Amerasia Journal at 40 Years, Chinese Language Edition, Vol. 1 (June 2013): 312-330.

“’You can’t generalize, professor, though I know NYU is a good school’: Abstract vs. Legitimate Knowledges in Russell Leong’s ‘Eclipse.’” Amerasia Journal. Special Edition Word & Image: Russell Leong [University of California Los Angeles] 37.1 (2011): 61-76.

“Singular Ways of Knowing: Fiction by American Women Anthropologists.” Consortium: A Journal of Crossdisciplinary Inquiry [University of Colorado, USA] (2011):137-162.

“Diachronic vs. Synchronic Accounts of Cultural Difference in Paule Marshall’s The Chosen Place, the Timeless People.” The American Uses of History:  Essays on Public Memory. Eds. Tomasz Basiuk, Sylwia Kuźniar Markowska, and Krystyna Mazur. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011. 133-146.

“Queer Ways of Knowing Islands: O.A. Bushnell, Molokai.” LINQ [James Cook University, Australia] 37 (November 2010): 128-140.

„Editorial: Is There a Gay Bias in Queer Studies?” Co-authored with Krystyna Mazur. InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies 5 (2010): n. pag.

“Telling a Small Place: Gloria Naylor’s Negotiations with Ethnography in Mama Day.” Anglica Wratislaviensia 47 (2009): 17-26.

“Negotiating the Legacy of Ethnography: Autoethnographic Strategies in Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Heads by Harry and Achy Obejas’s Days of Awe.” Ideology and Rhetoric: Constructing America. Ed. Bożenna Chylińska. Amersham: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 121-133.

“The Deserving Heathen: Missionary Ethnography of China and its American Converts.” Transpacific Interactions: The United States and China, 1880-1950. Eds. Vanessa Künnemann and Ruth Mayer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 185-204.

 “Multiculturalism and the Legacy of Ethnography.” PASE Papers 2008: Studies in Culture and Literature. Vol. 2. Eds. Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak and Anna Cichoń. Wrocław: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT, 2009. 53-66.

“A Pole with a Stake in Asian American Studies.” Amerasia Journal 34.2 (Fall 2008): 1-13.

“A Confidence Man in the Orient: Karl May and the German Colonial Enterprise.” Werkwinkel 3.1 (Spring 2008): 13-33.

“Gossip From Behind a Closed Door: Revisiting Girls’ Boarding School Culture.” Out Here: Local and International Perspectives in Queer Studies.  Eds. Dominika Ferens, Tomasz Basiuk, and Tomasz Sikora. Amersham: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006.

“Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna: Establishing Ethnographic Authority.” Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature. Eds. Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 30-47.

“Zwiedzanie cudzych kolonii. Wiedza i władza w afrykańskich powieściach Karola Maya.” [Power and Knowledge in the African Novels of Karl May] Er(r)go: Teoria, Literatura, Kultura 8.2 (2004). 73-90.

“Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far: The Politics of Chinatown Reporting.” Postcolonial Subjects: Canadian and Australian Perspectives. Ed. Mirosława Buchholtz. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2004.

“Winnifred Eaton’s ’Japanese’ Novels as a Field Experiment.” Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s. Eds. Lisa Botshon and Meredith Goldsmith. Boston:  Northeastern University Press, 2003.

“Heteronormatywna funkcja angielskiej szkoły żeńskiej.” [The Heteronormative Function of British Girls’ Boarding Schools].  W poszukiwaniu małej dziewczynki. Eds. Izabela Kowalczyk and Edyta Zierkiewicz. Poznań: Konsola 2003. 135-143.

“Tarzan, ‘de sterkste winkt.’” Zorro & Co.: Populaire personages en de koloniale verbeelding. Eds. Nadia Lie and Theo D’haen. Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2002. 85-99.

“Staking Claims: Henryk Sienkiewicz and the Chinese in California.” Anglica Wratislaviensia 31 (2002).               

“Ja Tarzan, ty Jane. O fascynacji eugeniką.” [Me Tarzan, You Jane: On the Romance of Eugenics] Edukacyjne Konteksty  kultury popularnej. Eds. Witold Jakubowski and  Edyta  Zierkiewicz. Kraków: Impuls, 2002: 59-72.

“Personal Reflections of a Half-Chinese Victorian Reporter in Jamaica.” Proceedings of American Portraits and Self-Portraits, Annual Conference of the Polish Association for American Studies, Puławy, November 2001: 14-24.

“Native Americans, Chinese and White Progressivists in the Land of Sunshine.” ATQ Special Issue: Cohabiting America: Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Nineteenth Century 15.4 (December 2001): 305-316.

 “Two Faces of the Oriental(ist): Missionary and Travel Writing on China and Japan.” British and American Studies Vol. 3: The Local Colors of the Stars and Stripes. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2001: 127-139.

„Wayward Conquistador or Transcultural Hybrid? Commentaries on Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca’s The Account.” Anglica Wratislaviensia 36 (2001): 21-34.

“Białe turystki na Dalekim Wschodzie: Płeć i rasa w dziewiętnastowiecznej etnografii.” [White Women Tourists in the Far East: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-century Ethnography]. Gender w humanistyce. Ed. Małgorzata Radkiewicz. Kraków: Rabid, 2001: 288-297.

“Oriental Plots: Decoupling Race and Culture in Early Asian American Literature.” Papers in Literature and Culture: Proceedings of the 8^th International PASE Conference. Wrocław, 2000. 43-49.

“Tangled Kites: Sui Sin Far’s Negotiations with Race and Readership.” Amerasia Journal 25.2 (Summer 1999): 116-144.

“Political Aspects of Chinese American Literature: Changing Aims.” Literature and Society: Publications of the Fifth Annual Fulbright Conference. Poznań, Poland (1994): 5-9.

“Didacticism in Chinese American Literature: David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly,” Anglica Wratislaviensia 27 (1994): 5-11.

“Contemporary Chinese American Writers Versus the Perpetuators of Myths and Stereotypes.” Anglica Wratislaviensia 25 (1993): 50-59.