drMałgorzata Olsza

Małgorzata Olsza
Assistant professor (Adiunkt)

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • M.A. in Art History, AMU, 2010
  • B.A. in English, AMU, 2011
  • M.A. in English, AMU, 2013
  • Ph.D. in American Literature, AMU, 2017

Research Interests

  • American comics and graphic novels
  • Comix and comics by women
  • Word and image
  • Media studies
  • Contemporary American literature

Teaching Experience

  • History of American Literature
  • B.A. Seminars and Proseminars in American Literature and American comics
  • American graphic novels, comics and comix
  • Translation of financial, business, and legal texts
  • TEFL at university level

Professional Organizations

Research Projects

  • "Drawing feminism: Female artists on the underground American comix scene in the 1970s and 1980s", National Science Center (NCN) Grant, MINIATURA 2, 2018/02/X/HS2/00693, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
  • "The pregnant body and reproductive rights in American comics and graphic novels (1970-2022)", National Science Center (NCN) grant, SONATA 18, 2022/47/D/HS2/00054, Principal Investigator, 2023-2026

Scholarships

  • JFK Institute Foundation for North American Studies at Free University, Berlin, July 2015

Papers Read at International Conferences and Congresses

  • Performing South, Southern Studies Forum Conference, Szczecin, 12-14 September 2013
  • America: Justice, Conflict, War, European Association for American Studies Conference (Student Section), The Hague, The Netherlands, 3-6 April 2014
  • Thinking Food: The Functions of Food in the US American Culture and Society, American Studies Center, Warsaw, Poland, 16-17 May 2014
  • Word & Image Crossovers, Department of English, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 29-30 September 2014
  • Tearing up the page: reading/viewing the rip in English-language comics and graphic novels, Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris, France, 7 February 2015
  • Wordstruck: American Artists as Readers, Writers, and Literati, Maria Skłodowska-Curie University in Lublin, Poland, 13-16 May 2015
  • HCA Spring Academy on American History, Culture & Politics, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 14-18 March 2016
  • European Association for American Studies Conference 2016, Constanta, Romania, 22-25 April 2016
  • Transnational American Studies, Polish Association for American Studies Annual Conference, American Studies Center, Warsaw, Poland, 27-29 October 2016
  • New Perspectives in English and American Studies, April Conference Fourteen, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 20-22 April 2017
  • Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North American Literature and Culture, Maria Sklodowska-Curie University in Lublin, Poland, 10-11 May 2018
  • Text-Image-Music: Crossing the Borders, the 4th International Association of Literary Semantics Symposium, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 18-20 October 2018
  • Gender and the Graphic Novel, The University of Barcelona, Spain, 8 March 2019
  • Diversity is inclusive: Cultural, literary and linguistic mosaic, 28th PASE Conference, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 27-28 June 2019
  • Feminism in the Media/Feminism and the Media in the 20th Century, German Historical Institute London, UK, 21-23 November 2019
  • Comics and Feminism, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, 19-21 February 2020
  • Feminisms in American Studies in/and Crisis: Where Do We Go From Here?, Fourth Biennial European Association for American Studies Women's Network Symposium [online], 28-29 April 2021
  • Hinterlands: Cultural and Literary Perspectives [online], University of Wrocław, Poland, 18-20 March 2022
  • Whales and Veils: Obsessions in Melville and Hawthorne Conference [online], University of Łódź, Poland, 12-14 May 2022
  • Comics and Conscience: Ethics, Morality, and Great Responsibility [online], The 2022 International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, Lexicon Library and Cultural Centre, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland, 29 June - 1 July 2022
  • Comics, Activism, Feminisms 2022, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 17-19 August 2022
  • EXπRE. Going Off in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture [online], Maria Sklodowska-Curie University in Lublin and The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), Poland, 1-2 December 2022
  • Access to Equality: Reproductive Justice in the United States [online], Fifth Biennial European Association for American Studies Women's Network Symposium, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, 31 March -- 1 April, 2023
  • HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Bavarian American Academy and the German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor), Munich, Germany, 15-17 June, 2023
  • America and Deep Time: Alternate Geographies, Temporalities, and Histories, The Polish Association for American Studies  2023 Annual Conference, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 25-27 October 2023
  • 1924-2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited [online],The 35th Biennial European Association for American Studies Conference, Munich, Germany, 4-6 April 2024
  • Auto / Bio / Fictional Graphic Narratives: A Symposium [online], The Goldsmiths Research Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL), Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 26-27 June 2024
  • Comics and Technologies [online], The Fifteenth Annual International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 10-12 July 2024
  • Comprehending Comics: Exploring Methodologies and Approaches to Comic Studies in History and the Social Sciences [online], The Comics Lab at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, 8-9 September 2024
  • Enfreakment in (Transnational) North American Culture, Institute for American Studies, Leipzig University, Germany, 22-23 May 2025
  • The Taste of Comics [online], Joint Conference of the International Bande Dessinée Society and the International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée in Brussels in collaboration with Ghent University, Belgium, 24-25 June 2025

Organizer of international conferences

Certificates

  • Goethe-Zertifikat C2: Grosses Deutsches Sprachdiplom, 2015

Awards

  • Adam Mickiewicz University Rector's Prize for Teaching Excellence, 2024
  • Award of the Dean of the Faculty of English of Adam Mickiewicz University for the Best M.A. Thesis in Literature, 2013
  • Polish Association for American Studies Annual Award for the Best American Studies M.A. Thesis Written at a Polish University, 2013
  • Adam Mickiewicz University Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement and Outstanding Participation in the Life of the University, 2013