Department of American Studies: Literature and Media invites everyone to an open lecture by Prof. Anastasia Ulanowicz (University of Florida, USA) entitled “Haunted Memories: Representations of Eastern European Immigration in Vera Brosgol’s Anya’s Ghost and Be Prepared”.
When? Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
Where? Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka 6
About the speaker
Anastasia Ulanowicz received her Ph.D. in Cultural and Critical Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. While at Pitt, she was a recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon pre-doctoral fellowship.
Her research is primarily focused on the representation of intergenerational relationships and memory in children’s literature and graphic narratives. Her first book, Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature: Ghost Images (Routledge, 2013) received the Children’s Literature Association Book Award in 2015. She is the co-editor (with Manisha Basu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) of The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger (Palgrave, 2018), which includes her essay on representations of embodied memory and childhood games in Oksana Zabushko’s The Museum of Abandoned Secrets. Her recent scholarly collection, Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature (co-edited with Mateusz Świetlicki, University of Wrocław) has just been published by Routledge.
Prof. Ulanowicz was a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Wrocław, Poland in 2021, and returned to Wrocław in 2025 as a Fulbright Scholar. She is currently completing a monograph entitled Through Western Eyes: Representations of Eastern Europe in Western Comics, 1989-2022. She is the editor of ImageTexT, a journal of interdisciplinary comics studies.
