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dr hab. Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, prof. UWr<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Department of American Literature and Culture
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Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice is an associate professor at the University of Wroc\u0142aw, working in the Department of American Literature and Culture. She has been associated with the University of Wroc\u0142aw since the beginning of her education: she completed her bachelor’s degree (1999), master’s degree (2001), and doctoral studies at the Institute of English Studies (she defended her doctorate, “Traveling Subjects: Post-colonial Identities in Liminal Spaces on the Example of the Prose of Women Writers of Indian Descent,” in 2005). She also completed her habilitation there in 2019 based on the publication series “California and the Melancholic American Identity.” Since 2024, Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice has served as Deputy Director for Research and Finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2004, she spent a year at the University of California, Los Angeles, as a Junior Fulbright Scholar. In 2005 and 2006, she received a scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science for outstanding young scientists. In 2008, she spent three months at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles under the auspices of the Ko\u015bciuszko Foundation. In 2010, she completed a library research stay at the Freie Universit\u00e4t in Berlin. In 2010-2011, she was a visiting researcher at King’s College London. In 2014, she was awarded a scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science mentoring program (mentor: Prof. Michael Steiner at California State University Fullerton). In 2015, she received a “Conex” fellowship under the Marie Curie Actions program sponsored by the European Union and spent three years at the Carlos III University in Madrid, conducting research under the supervision of Prof. Julia Checa. In 2019, she received a translation fellowship from the SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores) foundation in Madrid. In 2024, she completed a short research stay at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin as part of an IDUB scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice is the author of two monographs, California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion’s Novels: Exiled from Eden<\/em> (2019) and Melancholic Travelers: Autonomy, Hybridity, and the Maternal<\/em> (2007); co-editor of the volumes Hinterlands: Cultural and Literary Perspectives<\/em> (2023), Representations and Images of Frontiers and Borders: On the Edge<\/em> (2022), A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture<\/em> (2017), and Interiors: Interiority\/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse<\/em> (2010); and author of over 40 other scholarly publications, reviews, and translations. Her academic interests include contemporary American literature and issues at the intersection of Animal Studies, Gender Studies, Disability Studies, and critical posthumanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7267-8732<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monografie autorskie \/ Monographs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion\u2019s Novels: Exiled from Eden.<\/em> New York: Routledge, 2019; paperback edition 2020. ISBN: 978-1-1383-7041-8. 224 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. Melancholic Travelers: Autonomy, Hybridity and the Maternal. <\/em>Peter Lang, 2007. ISBN 3-631-55627-6. 158 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Redakcja monografii \/ Edited volumes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

K\u0119b\u0142owska-\u0141awniczak Ewa, Dominika Ferens, Katarzyna <\/em>Nowak-McNeice i  <\/em>Marcin Tereszewski, eds.  Hinterlands: Cultural and Literary Perspectives. <\/em>Routledge, 2023. ISBN: 9781032617718, 304 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, Katarzyna i Alejandra Maria Avent\u00edn Fontana, eds. Representations and Images of Frontiers and Borders:<\/em> On the Edge. <\/em>Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022 (paperback edition 2023). ISBN: 1-5275-7608-6, 220 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, Katarzyna i Agata Zarzycka, eds.A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture.<\/em> Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-4766-6783-6. 205 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, Katarzyna i Sonia Front, eds. Interiors: Interiority\/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse. <\/em>Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. ISBN13: 978-1-4438-2280-0, ISBN: 1-4438-2280-9. 245 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publikacje w czasopismach \/ Essays in peer-reviewed journals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cThe Misanthropocene in California: Susan Straight\u2019s Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights<\/em> and Joan Didion\u2019s The Last Thing He Wanted<\/em>\u201d. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, <\/em>vol 64 issue 5, 2023. DOI: <\/a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00111619.2023.2270413<\/a>. Pp. 983-995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cMadness, Authorship, and the City: Elvira Navarro\u2019s A Working Woman<\/em>\u201d. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, <\/em>DOI: 10.1080\/00111619.2022.2097048<\/a>, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cThe Turn toward the Non-human in Susan Straight\u2019s A Million Nightingales<\/em>\u201d. CLCWeb: <\/em>Comparative Literature and Culture<\/em>, DOI: 10.7771\/1481-4374.3798<\/a>, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cBelonging to the Human and Non-human Animals in J.M. Coetzee\u2019s Recent Novels\u201d. Special Issue of C21 literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings 6(1)<\/em>: \u201cThe Literature of the Anthropocene\u201d, 12 Feb 2018. DOI: http:\/\/doi.org\/10.16995\/c21.29<\/a> . ISSN: 2045-5224.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cJoan Didion\u2019s California: Literary Representations of History, Melancholy and Transgression\u201d. The Quint: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly from the North, vol. 7.1<\/em> (December 2014). Pp. 82-99. Reprinted in vol. 11.1 (December 2018). Pp. 193-211. UCN, Canada. ISSN 1920-1028. https:\/\/www.ucn.ca\/sites\/academics\/facultyarts\/programofferings\/arts\/humanities\/The%20Quint\/The%20Quint%20v11.1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cThe Californian Exopolis: Hector Tobar\u2019s and Tim Z. Hernandez\u2019s Literary Interventions\u201d. The <\/em>Watchung Review: the Journal of the New Jersey College English Association<\/em>, 2017. Pp. 76-83. ISSN 2573-1750. https:\/\/watchungreview.omeka.net\/items\/show\/1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cThe Girl of the Golden West<\/em>: European and American Fictions of California after the U.S. Conquest\u201d. Polish Journal for American Studies, vol. 6<\/em>. ed. Marek Pary\u017c, 2012. Pp. 13-24. ISSN: 1733-9154. http:\/\/paas.org.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/002-146-PJA-6-2012.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cThe Orphic Myth and America: The Representation of Immigrants in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West<\/em>\u201d. Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em> vol. 48. ed. A. Micho\u0144ska-Stadnik. Wroc\u0142aw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroc\u0142awskiego, 2010. Pp. 57-63. ISSN: 0301-7966. http:\/\/awr.wuwr.pl\/category\/-16<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cA Utopian Project of Identity: The Case of Helena Modrzejewska\u201d. Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em> vol. 46, ed. A. Micho\u0144ska-Stadnik. Wroc\u0142aw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroc\u0142awskiego, 2008, pp. 53-61. http:\/\/awr.wuwr.pl\/category\/-125<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cCyclicity, Melancholia, Emigration: The Case of Helena Modrzejewska\u201d (in Polish). Er(r)go<\/em> vol. XIV, ed. W. Kalaga. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersyteckie \u201c\u015al\u0105sk,\u201d 2007. pp. 53-63. ISSN: 1508-6305. https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/43221467\/No_14_1_2007_prze_twory_kultury_pickles_of_culture_waste_man_agement_in_Polish_<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cHistory vs. histories: Arundhati Roy\u2019s The God of Small Things<\/em> and Kavery Nambisan\u2019s The Scent of Pepper<\/em>\u201d. Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em> XLIII. Wroc\u0142aw 2005. pp. 45-54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cIn Search of a Voice: the Figure of a Little Girl in Chosen Short Stories by Women Writers of Indian Origin\u201d (in Polish). Er(r)go <\/em>vol. VIII. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersyteckie \u201c\u015al\u0105sk,\u201d 2004. pp. 109-121.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cScience, Narration and Representation in Mircea Eliade\u2019s Chosen Texts\u201d. Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em> XXXVII. Wroc\u0142aw 2001. Pp. 113-120.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rozdzia\u0142y w monografiach \/ Chapters in edited volumes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cCare and Madness in Olga Tokarczuk\u2019s Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead <\/em>and Agnieszka Holland\u2019s Spoor<\/em>\u201d [\u201cTroska i szale\u0144stwo w powie\u015bci Olgi Tokarczuk Prowad\u017a sw\u00f3j p\u0142ug przez ko\u015bci umar\u0142ych <\/em>i w filmie Agnieszki Holland Pokot<\/em>\u201d] in Polish, ed. Wojciech Browarny, to be published 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201c\u2019We have always been posthuman: Towards a Post-anthropocentric Reading of Westworld<\/em>\u201d in Return of the Western: Refracting Genre, Representing Gender<\/em>, ed. Sue Matheson, Edinburg UP, 2025. ISBN: 1399524720. Pp. 266-279.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K.<\/a> \u201cJoan Didion\u2019s California\u201d, in Polish [\u201cKalifornia w pisarstwie Joan Didion\u201d]. In Joan Didion<\/em>, ed. Marek Pary\u017c. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2024. ISBN: 978-83-235-6408-9. Pp. 23-38. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.31338\/uw.9788323564164.pp.23-38<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cAutism and Comedy: Ambiguity and Compatibility. On the Examples of Naoki Higashida\u2019s The Reason I Jump <\/em>and John Elder Robinson\u2019s Look Me In the Eye.<\/em>\u201d In Representaciones c\u00f3micas de la discapacidad<\/em>, ed. Susanne Hartwig, Soledad Pereyra. De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. 139-150. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/9783111546278-009<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K.<\/a> \u201cPost-anthropocentric Hinterlands in Susan Straight\u2019s Novels\u201d. In Hinterlands: Cultural and Literary Perspectives. <\/em>Eds. Ewa K\u0119b\u0142owska-\u0141awniczak, Dominika Ferens, Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice and Marcin Tereszewski. Routledge, 2024. ISBN: 978-1-032-61771-8. Pp. 124-135.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K.<\/a> \u201cDiary of a Bad Year<\/em>\u201d in The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee<\/em>, eds. Lucy Valerie Graham and Andrew van der Vlies. Bloomsbury, 2023. ISBN: 9781350152052. Pp. 181-189.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cSusan Sontag\u2019s In America: <\/em>Towards a Post-anthropocentric Subjectivity\u201d [\u201cW Ameryce <\/em>Susan Sontag: ku podmiotowo\u015bci nieantropocentrycznej\u201d]. In Susan Sontag<\/em>, ed. Marek Pary\u017c. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2022. Pp. 119-134. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.31338\/uw.9788323555650.pp.119-134<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cMadness, Femininity, Resistance: Pushing the Borders of Representation, on the Example of Laura Restrepo\u2019s Delirium<\/em> and Olga Tokarczuk\u2019s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.<\/em>\u201d Eds. Alba G\u00f3mez Garc\u00eda, David Navarro Juan, Javier Velloso \u00c1lvarez. Ficciones y L\u00edmites<\/em> (Functional Diversity and Creativity: the Limits of Fiction<\/em>). Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021. Pp. 147 – 163. ISBN: 978-3-631-85882-0. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3726\/b18755<\/a> Open access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cMadness, Femininity, Vegetarianism: Post-anthropocentric Representations on the example of Olga Tokarczuk\u2019s Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead <\/em>and Agnieszka Holland\u2019s Spoor.<\/em>\u201d In Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animal<\/em>, ed. Krishanu Maiti. Cham: Springer Nature, 2021. Pp. 167 \u2013 177. ISBN 978-3-030-76158-5. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-76159-2_14<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cAutism and the Challenges of Translation: on the Example of Rafa\u0142 Motriuk\u2019s Autistic Son, Desperate Dad <\/em>(2018)\u201d in Inclusion, Integration, Differentiation. <\/em>Functional Diversity in Literature, Cinema and Scenic Arts \/ Incusi\u00f3n, integraci\u00f3n, diferenciaci\u00f3n. La diversidad funcional en la literatura, el cine y las artes esc\u00e9nicas<\/em>, <\/a>ed. Susanne Hartwig. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020. Pp. 121-130. ISBN: 978-3-631-81506-9. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3726\/b16655<\/a> Open access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cRepresentation of the Displacement of California\u2019s Native American Population: Helen Hunt Jackson\u2019s Ramona<\/em>\u201d in Cultures in Movement, <\/em>ed. Martine Raibaud, Mica\u00e9la Symington, Ionut Untea, David Waterman. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. Pp. 58-69. ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-7189-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cRemembering the Loss, Constructing the Future: Time and Memory in Helen Hunt Jackson\u2019s Ramona<\/em>\u201d in Hours like Bright Sweets in a Jar\u201d \u2013 Time and Temporality in Literature and Culture, <\/em>ed. Alicja Bemben, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. Pp. 69-80. ISBN: 978-1-4438-6523-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cGrieving the Loss of Native American California: Helen Hunt Jackson\u2019s Ramona<\/em>\u201d in Culture and Rites\/Rights of Grief, <\/em>ed. Zbigniew Bia\u0142as, Pawe\u0142 J\u0119drzejko and Julia Szo\u0142tysek, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Pp. 100-107. ISBN: 978-1-4438-5059-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cMelancholic Opera: Representation of Emigrants in Puccini\u2019s La Fanciulla del West and Manon Lescaut<\/em>\u201d in Words and Music, <\/em>ed. Victor Kennedy and Michelle Gadpaille, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Pp. 21-28. ISBN: 978-1-4438-4916-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cCalifornia after the U.S. Conquest and the Status Anxiety: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton\u2019s The Squatter and the Don<\/em>\u201d in Narrating American Gender and Ethnic Identities<\/em>, eds. Aleksandra R\u00f3\u017calska, Gra\u017cyna Zygad\u0142o. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Pp. 145-155. ISBN: 978-1-4438-4784-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cThe Myth of Eternal Return: Melancholic Formation of Identity and Production of Cultural Icons\u201d in A Culture of Recycling \/Recycling Culture?<\/em> ed. W. Kalaga, M. Kubisz, J. Mydla. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011. Pp. 21-26. ISBN: 978-3-653-00941-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cIn the Name of the Father: Identity, Disruption, Difference. A Study of Jhumpa Lahir\u2019s The Namesake<\/em>\u201d in Mapping Literary Space(s)<\/em>, ed. W. Kalaga, M. Kubisz and J. Mydla. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu \u015al\u0105skiego, 2009. Pp. 106-117. ISBN: 978-83-226-1836-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cPostcolonial Narrations of Women Writers of Indian Origin: A Migrating Family\u201d (in Polish) in Great Topics of American Literature<\/em>, Vol. III, ed. T. Pyzik. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu \u015al\u0105skiego, 2007. pp. 182-192. ISBN: 978-83-226-1671-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cSubversive versions of femininity in the South African context on the example of Olive Schreiner\u2019s The Story of an African Farm<\/em>\u201d (in Polish) in The \u2018Gender\u2019 in Translation<\/em>, ed. Piotr Fast. Katowice, Czestochowa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe \u201e\u015al\u0105sk\u201d, 2006. pp. 83-89. ISBN: 978-83-7164-504-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cAmerican Journeys, Hybrid Subjects: Writers of Indian Origin Map North America\u201d in Traveling Subjects: American Journeys in Space and Time<\/em>, eds. Dominika Ferens, Justyna Kociatkiewicz. Krak\u00f3w: Rabid, 2004. Pp. 161-166. ISBN: 83-88668-73-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cBisexual Body as Theoretical Space on the basis of Judith Butler\u2019s, Helene Cixous\u2019s and Clare Hemmings\u2019s Texts\u201d (in Polish) in Gender in the Humanities<\/em>, ed. Ma\u0142gorzata Radkiewicz. Krak\u00f3w: Rabid, 2001. Pp. 245-250. ISBN: 83-88668-14-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inne publikacje: \/ Other publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

T\u0142umaczenia \/ Translations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Autistic Son, Desperate Dad<\/em> (from Polish into English). By Rafal Motriuk. Prebonus Publishing, 2018. ISBN: 978-8395020407, 202 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fig<\/em> (from English into Polish), a volume of poetry by Adrianne Kalfopoulou. Bielsko-Bia\u0142a: Wydawnictwo Wy\u017cszej Szko\u0142y Humanistyczno-Ekonomicznej, 2003, 51 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J.M. Coetzee\u2019s short story \u201cThe Novel in Africa\u201d (from English into Polish). Er(r)go<\/em> VIII<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2004, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersyteckie \u201c\u015al\u0105sk,\u201d pp. 9-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erhard Reckwitz\u2019s essay \u201c\u2018Man and His Bestial Other\u2019 in the Colonial Encounter \u2013 A Literary Case\u201d (from English into Polish). Er(r)go<\/em> VIII 2004, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersyteckie \u201c\u015al\u0105sk,\u201d pp. 139-162.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recenzje \/Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. Women in the Western. <\/em>Sue Matheson, ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2020. The Journal of Popular Film and Television<\/em>, vol. 49 no. 4, 2021. Pp. 234-5. DOI: 10.1080\/01956051.2021.1987833<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. Deconstruction, Feminism, Film. <\/em>Sarah Dillon. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018. The Journal of Popular Film and Television<\/em>, vol. 47 no 3. 10 Sept. 2019. DOI: 10.1080\/01956051.2019.1642720. Pp. 181-182. ISSN: 1930-6458.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the \u2018Other\u2019 in Film. <\/em>Lee Broughton. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. The Journal of Popular Film and Television<\/em>, vol. 46 no 3. 2018-07-03. DOI: 10.1080\/01956051.2018.1527607. Pp. 183-4. ISSN: 0195-6051.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. The Filth of Progress Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of Canals and Railroads in the West. <\/em>Ryan Dearinger. Stanford: University of California Press, 2016. The Journal of American Culture<\/em>, vol. 41:1, 09 March 2018, Wiley. DOI:10.1111\/jacc.12859. Pp. 102-3. ISSN: 1542-7331.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. An Imaginary England: Nation, Landscape and Literature, 1840-1920<\/em>, Roger Ebbatson.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. The European Legacy: The Journal of the Society for the Study of European Ideas<\/em>. Vol 13 no 6. October 2008. Basingstoke: Taylor and Francis. Pp. 786-787. ISSN: 1084-8770.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a \u2018Post\u2019-Colonial World <\/em>ed. Geoffrey V. Davis, Peter H. Marshden, Benedicte Ledent and Marc Delrez. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2004. The European Legacy: The Journal of the Society for the Study of European Ideas<\/em>. Vol 12 no 4. March 2007. Basingstoke: Taylor and Francis. Pp. 522-523. ISSN: 1084-8770.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. Karen Piper\u2019s book Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race and Identity <\/em>(in Polish). Er(r)go<\/em> X. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersyteckie \u201c\u015al\u0105sk,\u201d 2006. Pp. 203-208. ISSN: 1508-6305.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak, K. \u201cFootprints in the sand: colonial encounters, post-colonial interpretations.\u201d A review of Aristippus Meets Crusoe: Rethinking the Beach Encounter <\/em>(in Polish). Er(r)go<\/em> VIII, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersyteckie \u201c\u015al\u0105sk,\u201d 2004. Pp. 193-195. ISSN: 1508-6305.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publikacje pokonferencyjne \/ Post-conference publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cThe City of the Anthropocene: A Literary Example. Arundhati Roy\u2019s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.<\/em>\u201d In the proceedings of The City: Images and Imaginaries, International Conference, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. Congreso Internacional Interdisciplinar: La ciudad: im\u00e1genes e imaginarios. (2018, Getafe). Ana Mej\u00f3n, Farshad Zahedi, David Conte Imbert (eds.). Getafe: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2019, pp. 699-706. ISBN: 978-84-16829-44-6. https:\/\/e-archivo.uc3m.es\/bitstream\/handle\/10016\/29949\/24_city_nowak_CII_2018.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowak-McNeice, K. \u201cThe Anthropocene, the Capitalocene, the Chthulucene: Some Literary Examples\u201d. Published in the proceedings of The Anthropocene and Beyond: Towards a Shared Narrativity in Interdisciplinary Research. Shue Yan University, Hong Kong. Pdf. Pp. 437-450.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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