Prof. Jerzy Durczak (chair)
Degrees
M.A. – 1974 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin Robert Graves’s Fictionized Biographies
Ph.D. – 1983 – Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Varieties of Contemporary American Literary Nonfiction
post-doctoral degree – 1994 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin Selves Between Cultures: Contemporary American Bicultural Autobiography
Guest lectures
California State University, Bakersfield
Indiana University, Bloomington
University of Joensuu
Flensburg University
San Diego State University
Santa Clara University
Fellowships
1985-86 ACLS Fellowship, State University of New York at Buffalo
1989 – Oriel College, Oxford
1990 – John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin
1992 – John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin
1994 – International Seminar in American Studies: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Los Angeles – Baton Rouge – Washington D.C.
1995-96 – Senior Fulbright Fellowship – Michigan State University
Major publications
Contemporary American Literary Nonfiction, Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 1989.
Selves Between Cultures: Contemporary American Bicultural Autobiography, San Francisco-London-Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, 1997.
Polish-American Literary Confrontations, Eds. Jerzy and Joanna Durczak. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 1995.
Rivers and the American Experience. Ed. Jerzy Durczak. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2000.
American Portraits and Self-Portraits. Eds. Jerzy Durczak and Paweł Frelik Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2002.
(Mis)Reading America: American Dreams, Fictions and Illusions, Eds. Jerzy Durczak, Paweł Frelik. Kraków: Universitas 2011.
“Ihab Hassan: The Art or Risk.” Anglistik. September 2000. 34-44.
“The Third Way: Gloria Anzaldua’s Autobiographical Manifesto.” Alfred Hornung, William Boelhower, eds. Multiculturalism and the American Self. Heidelberg: C.Winter, 2000. 273-282.
“Who Are We (going to become)?: Vasconcelos, Huntington, Rodriguez.” Return to Postmodernism: Theory, Travel Writing, Autobiography, ed. Klaus Stierstorfer. Heidelberg: Universitatverlag WINTER, 2005. 307-316.
“Immigrant autobiographies” (in) Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Topics Volume, eds. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit: Gale 2009. 124-134.
Ten chapters in: Historia literatury amerykańskiej XX wieku, ed. A.Salska. Kraków: Universitas, 2003.
Interests
postwar American prose, American short story, Raymond Carver and other New Realists, autobiography, nonfiction writing, ethnic literature, Bruce Springsteen, photography
Membership in scholarly societies
Polish Association for American Studies (1993-1996 Board Member, 1996-2002 President)
The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas
European Association for American Studies (2003-08 Board Member)
American Studies Association
E-mail: durczak@hektor.umcs.lublin.pl