Dr. Izabella Kimak
Degrees
Ph.D. – 2011 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University – Women at Cultural Crossroads: Female Body and Sexuality in South Asian American Literature
M.A. 2003 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University – Native American Woman in Her Own Eyes: Portrayal of Women in the Works of Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, and Mary Crow Dog
Fellowships
2009 – research grant at JFK Institute Library, Free University, Berlin
2007 – HCA Spring Academy, University of Heidelberg
Major publications
“On Geographical and Metaphorical (Fault) Lines: Immigration, Acculturation and Generation Gap in South Asian American Women’s Fiction.” Roczniki Humanistyczne LXIII (2015): 251-260.
“A bridge that seizes crossing”: Art, Violence and Ethnic Identity in Meena Alexander’s Manhattan Music. Polish Journal for American Studies 8 (2014): 149-166.
“Book/Movie/Installation: The Interpenetration of the Literary and the Visual in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega.” Visuality and Vision in American Literature. Eds. Zbigniew Maszewski, Weronika Łaszkiewicz and Tomasz Sawczuk. Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, 2014. 91-98.
Bicultural Bodies: A Study of South Asian American Women’s Fiction. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013.
Inne bębny: Różnica i niezgoda w literaturze i kulturze amerykańskiej. Eds. Ewa Antoszek, Katarzyna Czerwiec-Dykiel and Izabella Kimak. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2013.
“Konflikt pokoleń czy wolność artystycznego wyboru? Twórczość Jhumpy Lahiri wobec kwestii etniczności w literaturze hindusko-amerykańskiej.” Inne bębny: Różnica i niezgoda w literaturze i kulturze amerykańskiej. Eds. Ewa Antoszek, Katarzyna Czerwiec-Dykiel and Izabella Kimak. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2013.
“Bharati Mukherjee and the Postcolonial Predicament: Looking Back in The Holder of the World.” In Other Words: Dialogizing Race, Postcoloniality, and Ethnicity. Eds. Ewa Łuczak, Justyna Wierzchowska and Joanna Ziarkowska. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2012.
“Americans Misreading (Other) Americans: Racial Subjects in the post-9/11 US in Two South Asian American Novels”. (Mis)Reading America: American Dreams, Fictions and Illusions. Eds. Jerzy Durczak and Paweł Frelik. Cracow: Universitas, 2011.
“Abha Dawesar”. The Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature. Ed. Seiwoong Oh. New York: Facts on File, 2007.
“Shaila Abdullah”. The Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature. Ed. Seiwoong Oh. New York: Facts on File, 2007.
Interests
urban literature, literary representations of non-literary arts, sexuality and the body in American literature, ethnic literature, South Asian American literature
Membership in scholarly societies
Polish Association for American Studies
The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas
MESEA The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas
Association for Asian American Studies
E-mail: izabella.kimak@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl