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Canadian literature, Polish-Canadian literature, Central and Eastern European literature in Canada,
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Biography

Dagmara Drewniak, Ph.D., D. Litt. She teaches American and Canadian literature at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research interests include: multiculturalism in English Canadian literature, images of Central and Eastern Europe in Canada and Canadian literature (Polish-Canadian, Lithuanian-Canadian, Jewish-Canadian), literature by immigrants from Poland and Eastern Europe, Jewishness and the Holocaust in Canadian and Australian literature, life-writing, and postcolonial literature in English. She has published essays on Michaels, Kulyk Keefer, Stachniak, Hoffman, Sileika, Rushdie, Ondaatje, Appignanesi, Kojder, Eisenstein and other contemporary writers. She co-edited several issues of scholarly periodicals: TransCanadiana Canada and Its Utopia/Canada et ses utopies (2/2009), Studia Anglica Posnaniensia (50 (2-3)/2015) and Studia Anglica Posnaniensia (55/2020). She is also the author of several books: Forgetful Recollections: Images of Central and Eastern Europe in Canadian Literature (2014), The Self and the World. Aspects of the Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary North American Literary Memoir by Women co-authored by Agnieszka Rzepa and Katarzyna Macedulska (2018) and Figura domu. Szkice o najnowszej anglojęzycznej literaturze emigrantów z ziem polskich i ich potomków w Kanadzie (2022), recipient of the Pierre Savard Award for 2023 (granted by International Council for Canadian Studies).
She was a Vice-President of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies (2016-2022) and currently she is a President of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies (2022-). Together with Lucyna Marzec and Monika Browarczyk, she founded a research group Life Writing Working Group at Adam Mickiewicz University in 2020 which has been organizing workshops, lectures and other life writing events.

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Employment (1)

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań: Poznań, PL

1997-02-01 to present | Ph.D., D. Litt. (Center for Canadian Literature)
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Professional activities (1)

Polish Association for Canadian Studies: Poznań, PL

2022 to present | President
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Funding (2)

Figura domu. Anglojęzyczna literatura polskich emigrantów i ich potomków w Kanadzie po 2010 roku

2018-06 to 2022-06 | Grant
Narodowe Centrum Nauki (Kraków, PL)
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2017/27/B/HS2/00111

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The aesthetics and politics of North American female memoir (1990-present) – multicultural perspectives

2013 to 2017 | Grant
National Science Centre (Kraków, PL)
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2012/05/B/HS2/04004

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Dagmara Drewniak