{"id":19803,"date":"2023-01-16T14:06:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/?page_id=19803"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:31:28","slug":"dr-hab-dominika-ferens-prof-uwr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/en\/staff\/dr-hab-dominika-ferens-prof-uwr\/","title":{"rendered":"dr hab. Dominika Ferens, prof. UWr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-ugb-container ugb-container ugb-8dda971 ugb-container--v2 ugb-container--design-plain ugb-main-block\"><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-container__wrapper ugb-8dda971-wrapper\"><div class=\"ugb-container__side\"><div class=\"ugb-container__content-wrapper ugb-8dda971-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns bs-news-page is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column bs-kontakt-photo is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"978\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/FerensDom-978x1024.jpg\" alt=\"df\" class=\"wp-image-21501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/FerensDom-978x1024.jpg 978w, https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/FerensDom-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/FerensDom-768x804.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/FerensDom-1320x1382.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/FerensDom-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/FerensDom-34x36.jpg 34w, https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/FerensDom-46x48.jpg 46w, https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/FerensDom.jpg 1401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column bs-contact-right-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-bonasoft-modular-breadcrumbs-block\"><div class=\"bs_add_breadcrumb_trail\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-css-opacity has-black-background-color has-background is-style-wide bs-border-kontakt\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading bs-naglowek-podstrony\" id=\"prof-dr-hab-anna-michonska-stadnik\"><strong><strong>dr hab. Dominika Ferens, prof. UWr<\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of American Literature and Culture<br><a href=\"mailto:dominika.ferens@uwr.edu.pl\">dominika.ferens@uwr.edu.pl<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ugb-container ugb-container bs-news-page-under ugb-f8694ce ugb-container--v2 ugb-container--design-plain ugb-main-block\"><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-container__wrapper ugb-f8694ce-wrapper\"><div class=\"ugb-container__side\"><div class=\"ugb-container__content-wrapper ugb-f8694ce-content-wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominika Ferens is an associate professor at the Institute of English Studies, where she teaches American literature and culture. She received a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (1999) and a post-doctoral degree from the University of Wroc\u0142aw). She has also worked at universities in Hannover, Tomsk, and Los Angeles. Most of her research has explored American minority literatures through theories of affect, race, gender, and sexuality. She is currently writing a study on Sigrid Nunez <a>and co-editing a collected volume titled <em>Shape Shifting Sensibilities: New Approaches to Winnifred Eaton\/Onoto Watanna <\/em>under review at McGill Queen\u2019s University Press. <\/a>She won two Fulbright grants <a>(1994-1996, 2021\/2022)<\/a>. She co-founded in 2006 and co-edits <em>InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies<\/em>. In the years 2011-2014, she served as the President of the Polish Association for American Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a><strong>(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><strong>Monographs&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>Ways of Knowing Small Places: Intersections of American Literature and Ethnography since the 1960s. <\/a>Wroc\u0142aw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroc\u0142awskiego, 2010.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Edited collections<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recasting Winnifred Eaton: New Approaches to Onoto Watanna. Co-editor with Rena Heinrich and Shoshannah Ganz. McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, under review.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Literary and Cultural Perspectives of the Hinterlands. Co-editor with Ewa K\u0119b\u0142owska-\u0141awniczak, Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, and Marcin Tereszewski. Routledge, Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory, 2024.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Eating America: Crisis, Sustenance, Sustainability. Co-Editor with Justyna Kociatkiewicz and Laura Suchostawska. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Out Here: Local and International Perspectives in Queer Studies. Co-editor with Tomasz Basiuk and Tomasz Sikora. Amersham: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Parametry po\u017c\u0105dania: Kultura odmie\u0144c\u00f3w wobec homofobii.<\/em> [Parameters of Desire: Queer Culture vs. Homophobia]. Co-editor withTomasz Basiuk and Tomasz Sikora. Krak\u00f3w: Universitas, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Traveling Subjects: American Journeys in Space and Time. Co-editor with Justyna Kociatkiewicz and El\u017cbieta Klimek-Dominiak. Krak\u00f3w: Rabid, 2004.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A Queer Mixture:<\/em> <em>Gender perspectives on Minority Sexual Identities. <\/em>Co-editor withTomasz Basiuk and Tomasz Sikora. Katowice: Wydawnictwo \u015al\u0105sk, 2002.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Thematic issues of journals<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a><em>InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies <\/em><\/a>11a (2016), Special Issue: Ugly Bodies: Queer Perspectives on Illness, Disability, and Aging. Co-editor withTomasz Sikora. Introduction: Let\u2019s Talk about (Queer) Sex\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies <\/em>11b (2016), Special Issue: Brzydkie cia\u0142a: Queer wobec choroby, niepe\u0142nosprawno\u015bci i staro\u015bci. Co-editor withTomasz Sikora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies 5 (2010), Feminist Issue: Is There a Gay Bias in Queer Studies? Co-editor with Krystyna Mazur.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Articles\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a>\u201cSigrid Nunez\u2019s Minority Cosmopolitanism and the Ethics of Interest.\u201d <\/a><em>Studia Anglica Posnaniensia<\/em> 59 (2025), forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNarrative Hospitality: Sigrid Nunez\u2019s Poetics of Fragmentation.\u201d <em>Review of International American Studies<\/em>, forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAerial Views, Pedestrian Ways: Fragmentation in D. J. Waldie\u2019s <em>Holy Land<\/em>.\u201d <em>Flyover Fictions.<\/em> Eds. Sascha P\u00f6hlman and Cornelia Klecker. Lincoln: Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFragmentation.\u201d <em>Experimental Life Writing Today. <\/em>Eds. Vanessa Guignery and Wojciech Dr\u0105g. Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow Does It Feel to Be at Univeristy: Affect in Contemporary North American Campus Fiction.\u201d <em>Academic Journal of Modern Philology<\/em> 22 (2024): 107-117.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Transnational Hinterlands of Los Angeles in Karen Tei Yamashita\u2019s <em>Tropic of Orange<\/em>.\u201d <em>Literary and Cultural Perspectives of the Hinterlands<\/em>. Eds. Ewa K\u0119b\u0142owska-\u0141awniczak, et al. Routledge, 2024. 25-38.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEditors\u2019 Introduction. Hinterlands: A Return of the Outside.\u201d Co-author with Ewa K\u0119b\u0142owska-\u0141awniczak, Marcin Tereszewski, and Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice.<em> Literary and Cultural Perspectives of the Hinterlands<\/em>. Eds. Ewa K\u0119b\u0142owska-\u0141awniczak, et al. Routledge, 2024. 1-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a>\u201cAfektywny i emocjonalny potencja\u0142 <em>Nast\u0119pnym razem po\u017car<\/em>\u201d [The Affective and Emotional Potential of <em>The Fire Next Time<\/em>]. <em>James Baldwin<\/em>. Ed. Anna Pochmara. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2021.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAffect and Form in the Writings of the Eaton Sisters.\u201d<em> Asian American Literature in Transition, Volume One: 1850-1930.&nbsp;<\/em>Eds.&nbsp;Josephine Lee&nbsp;and&nbsp;Julia Lee. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 207-226.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a>\u201cDlaczego <em>Brokeback Mountain<\/em> nie jest tragedi\u0105?\u201d [Why Is <em>Brokeback Mountain<\/em> not a Tragedy?]. <\/a><em>Annie Proulx.<\/em> Ed. Marek Pary\u017c. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2020. 139-156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a>\u201cSilence, Sound, and Affect.\u201d <\/a><em>Res Rhetorica<\/em> 7.4 (2020): 32-48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a>\u201cLissa: An EthnoGraphic Experiment.\u201d <em>Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature: Formal Intersections between Narrative Fiction and Other Media<\/em> 44.2 (2020): 83-98.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNarrating Chaos: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha&#8217;s <em>DICTEE<\/em> and Korean American Fragmentary Writings.\u201d <em>Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em> 57 (2019): 25-35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIntersections of American Literature and Ethnography.&#8221; <em>\u010cesk\u00fd lid\/The Czech Ethnological Journal<\/em> 103.3 (2016): 371-394.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ceskylid.avcr.cz\/article\/103\/3\/554\/\">Prol\u00edn\u00e1n\u00ed literatury a etnografie ve Spojen\u00fdch st\u00e1tech americk\u00fdch<\/a>.&#8221; <em>\u010cesk\u00fd lid\/The Czech Ethnological Journal<\/em> 103.3 (2016): 395-418.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCan the Home Be Interesting? Homeliness and Affects in Contemporary Asian American Fiction.&#8221; <em>Contemporary Literary Studies<\/em> 13 (2016) [Kiev National Linguistics University, Ukraine]: 694-704.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cBelated Interest: Reading the Fiction of Sigrid Nunez through Silvan Tomkins\u2019s Affect Theory.\u201d <em>Spectrum of Emotions. <\/em>Eds. Ewa K\u0119b\u0142owska-\u0141awniczak and Wojciech Dr\u0105g. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016. 113-122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cBig fish: On the Relative Popularity of Zane Grey and Ernest Hemingway.\u201d Unpopular Culture. Eds. Sascha P\u00f6hlman and Martin L\u00fcthe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s Talk about (Queer) Sex.\u201d Co-authored with Tomasz Sikora. <em>InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies. <\/em><em>Ugly Bodies: Queer Perspectives on Illness, Disability, and Aging<\/em> 11a (2016): i-iv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPogadajmy o (kalekim) seksie.\u201d Co-authored with Tomasz Sikora. <em>InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies. <\/em><em>Brzydkie cia\u0142a: Queer wobec choroby, niepe\u0142nosprawno\u015bci i staro\u015bci<\/em> 11b (2016): i-viii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c&#8217;Where the Wild Things Are&#8217;: Excursions into Mixed-Race Literature through Affect Theory.\u201d <em>Wild Zones: Space, Experience, Consciousness.<\/em> Eds. Jacek Partyka and Jerzy Kamionowski. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015. 93-104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cBetween Taste and Interest: Reading Asian American Literature in the Age of Food Literacy.\u201d Eating America: Crisis, Sustenance, Sustainability. Eds. Justyna Kociatkiewicz, Laura Suchostawska, and Dominika Ferens. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, <a>2015. 277-296.<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLiterature, Ethnography, and Self-representation in a Globalizing World.\u201d <em>Interstudia 15, Special Issue:<\/em> <em>Cultural Representations in the Era of Globalization<\/em> (2014):73-85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cZane Grey.\u201d <em>Ameryka\u0144ski western literacki w XX wieku. Mi\u0119dzy histori\u0105, fantazj\u0105 a ideologi\u0105. <\/em>Agata Preis-Smith and Marek Pary\u017c, eds. Warszawa: Czu\u0142y Barbarzy\u0144ca, 2013. 36-57.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA Pole with a Stake in Asian American Studies\u201d [translated into Chinese]. <em>Global Identities: Local Voices. Amerasia Journal at 40 Years,<\/em><strong> Chinese Language Edition, Vol. 1 (June 2013): 312-330.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2019You can\u2019t generalize, professor, though I know NYU is a good school\u2019: Abstract vs. Legitimate Knowledges in Russell Leong\u2019s \u2018Eclipse.\u2019\u201d <em>Amerasia Journal.<\/em> <em>Special Edition Word &amp; Image: Russell Leong<\/em> [University of California Los Angeles] 37.1 (2011): 61-76.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSingular Ways of Knowing: Fiction by American Women Anthropologists.\u201d <em>Consortium: A Journal of Crossdisciplinary Inquiry<\/em> [University of Colorado, USA] (2011):137-162.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDiachronic vs. Synchronic Accounts of Cultural Difference in Paule Marshall\u2019s <em>The Chosen Place, the Timeless People<\/em>.\u201d <em>The American Uses of History:&nbsp; Essays on Public Memory. <\/em>Eds. Tomasz Basiuk, Sylwia Ku\u017aniar Markowska, and Krystyna Mazur. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011. 133-146.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cQueer Ways of Knowing Islands: O.A. Bushnell, <em>Molokai.<\/em>\u201d <em>LINQ<\/em> [James Cook University, Australia] 37 (November 2010): 128-140.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Editorial: Is There a Gay Bias in Queer Studies?&#8221; Co-authored with Krystyna Mazur. <em>InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies<\/em> 5 (2010): n. pag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTelling a Small Place: Gloria Naylor\u2019s Negotiations with Ethnography in <em>Mama Day.<\/em>\u201d<em> Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em> 47 (2009): 17-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNegotiating the Legacy of Ethnography: Autoethnographic Strategies in Lois-Ann Yamanaka\u2019s <em>Heads by Harry <\/em>and Achy Obejas\u2019s <em>Days of Awe<\/em>.\u201d <em>Ideology and Rhetoric: Constructing America<\/em>. Ed. Bo\u017cenna Chyli\u0144ska. Amersham: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 121-133.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Deserving Heathen: Missionary Ethnography of China and its American Converts.\u201d <em>Transpacific Interactions: The United States and China, 1880-1950<\/em>. Eds. Vanessa K\u00fcnnemann and Ruth Mayer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 185-204.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cMulticulturalism and the Legacy of Ethnography.\u201d <em>PASE Papers 2008: Studies in Culture and Literature<\/em>. Vol. 2. Eds. Ewa K\u0119b\u0142owska-\u0141awniczak and Anna Cicho\u0144. Wroc\u0142aw: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT, 2009. 53-66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cA Pole with a Stake in Asian American Studies.\u201d <em>Amerasia Journal<\/em> 34.2 (Fall 2008): 1-13.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cA Confidence Man in the Orient: Karl May and the German Colonial Enterprise.\u201d <em>Werkwinkel<\/em> 3.1 (Spring 2008): 13-33.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cGossip From Behind a Closed Door: Revisiting Girls\u2019 Boarding School Culture.\u201d <em>Out Here: Local and International Perspectives in Queer Studies.&nbsp; <\/em>Eds. Dominika Ferens, Tomasz Basiuk, and Tomasz Sikora. Amersham: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWinnifred Eaton\/Onoto Watanna: Establishing Ethnographic Authority.\u201d <em>Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature<\/em>. Eds. Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 30-47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cZwiedzanie cudzych kolonii. Wiedza i w\u0142adza w afryka\u0144skich powie\u015bciach Karola Maya.\u201d [Power and Knowledge in the African Novels of Karl May] <em>Er(r)go: Teoria, Literatura, Kultura<\/em> 8.2 (2004). 73-90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEdith Eaton\/Sui Sin Far: The Politics of Chinatown Reporting.\u201d <em>Postcolonial Subjects: Canadian and Australian Perspectives.<\/em> Ed. Miros\u0142awa Buchholtz. Toru\u0144: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Miko\u0142aja Kopernika, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWinnifred Eaton\u2019s \u2019Japanese\u2019 Novels as a Field Experiment.\u201d <em>Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s.<\/em> Eds. Lisa Botshon and Meredith Goldsmith. Boston:&nbsp; Northeastern University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHeteronormatywna funkcja angielskiej szko\u0142y \u017ce\u0144skiej.\u201d [The Heteronormative Function of British Girls\u2019 Boarding Schools].&nbsp; <em>W poszukiwaniu ma\u0142ej dziewczynki.<\/em> Eds. Izabela Kowalczyk and Edyta Zierkiewicz. Pozna\u0144: Konsola 2003. 135-143.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTarzan, \u2018de sterkste winkt.\u2019\u201d <em>Zorro &amp; Co.: Populaire personages en de koloniale verbeelding<\/em>. Eds. Nadia Lie and Theo D&#8217;haen. Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2002. 85-99.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStaking Claims: Henryk Sienkiewicz and the Chinese in California.\u201d <em>Anglica Wratislaviensia <\/em>31 (2002). &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJa Tarzan, ty Jane. O fascynacji eugenik\u0105.\u201d [Me Tarzan, You Jane: On the Romance of Eugenics] <em>Edukacyjne Konteksty&nbsp; kultury popularnej. <\/em>Eds. Witold Jakubowski and&nbsp; Edyta&nbsp; Zierkiewicz. Krak\u00f3w: Impuls, 2002: 59-72.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPersonal Reflections of a Half-Chinese Victorian Reporter in Jamaica.\u201d <em>Proceedings of American Portraits and Self-Portraits, Annual Conference of the Polish Association for American Studies<\/em>, Pu\u0142awy, November 2001: 14-24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNative Americans, Chinese and White Progressivists in the Land of Sunshine.\u201d <em>ATQ Special Issue: Cohabiting America: Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Nineteenth Century<\/em> 15.4 (December 2001): 305-316.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cTwo Faces of the Oriental(ist): Missionary and Travel Writing on China and Japan.\u201d <em>British and American Studies Vol. 3: The Local Colors of the Stars and Stripes.<\/em> Toru\u0144: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Miko\u0142aja Kopernika, 2001: 127-139.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Wayward Conquistador or Transcultural Hybrid? <em>Commentaries<\/em> on Alvar Nu\u00f1ez Cabeza de Vaca&#8217;s <em>The Account<\/em>.&#8221; <em>Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em> 36 (2001): 21-34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBia\u0142e turystki na Dalekim Wschodzie: P\u0142e\u0107 i rasa w dziewi\u0119tnastowiecznej etnografii.\u201d [White Women Tourists in the Far East: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-century Ethnography]. <em>Gender w humanistyce.<\/em> Ed. Ma\u0142gorzata Radkiewicz. Krak\u00f3w: Rabid, 2001: 288-297.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOriental Plots: Decoupling Race and Culture in Early Asian American Literature.\u201d <em>Papers in Literature and Culture: Proceedings of the 8<sup>th<\/sup> International PASE Conference<\/em>. Wroc\u0142aw, 2000. 43-49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTangled Kites: Sui Sin Far\u2019s Negotiations with Race and Readership.\u201d <em>Amerasia Journal<\/em> 25.2 (Summer 1999): 116-144.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPolitical Aspects of Chinese American Literature: Changing Aims.\u201d <em>Literature and Society: Publications of the Fifth Annual Fulbright Conference.<\/em> Pozna\u0144, Poland (1994): 5-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDidacticism in Chinese American Literature: David Henry Hwang\u2019s <em>M. 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