Reviews and Interviews

Tomasz Fisiak; Wit Pietrzak; Antoni Górny; Krzysztof Majer; Bill Gaston; Uilleam Blacker; Joanna Kosmalska

doi:10.1515/texmat-2016-0018

Authors

Tomasz Fisiak University of Łódź
Wit Pietrzak University of Łódź
Antoni Górny University of Warsaw
Krzysztof Majer University of Łódź
Bill Gaston University of Victoria
Uilleam Blacker University College London
Joanna Kosmalska University of Łódź

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2016-0018

Abstract

Timeless Radcliffe: A Review of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014) - Tomasz Fisiak

Yeats’s Genres and Tensions: A Review of Charles I. Armstrong’s Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013) - Wit Pietrzak

Review of Anna Pochmara’s The Making of the New Negro: Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2011) - Antoni Górny

“Artful Exaggeration” - Krzysztof Majer (University of Łódź) Interviews Bill Gaston

Transcultural Theatre in the UK - Uilleam Blacker Talks to Joanna Kosmalska (University of Łódź)

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Author Biographies

Tomasz Fisiak, University of Łódź

Tomasz Fisiak teaches in the Department of British Literature and Culture, University of Łódź. In 2014 he defended his Ph.D. in which he analyzed the portraits of female tyrants in selected Gothic novels. He also holds an MA degree in International Gender Studies, Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Łódź. Gothicism as a widely understood cultural phenomenon, as well as gender/queer issues, remain the main subjects of his research. He has published articles on feminist auto/biographies, horror cinema, modern erotic fiction.
Wit Pietrzak, University of Łódź

Wit Pietrzak teaches at the Institute of English, University of Łódź. He wrote his Ph.D. on the poetry of W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens and T. S. Eliot, later published as Myth, Language and Tradition (Newcastle, 2011). Pietrzak has written on modernist and recent British and American poetry as well as on philosophy and theory of literature. He is also the author of “Levity of Design.” Man and Modernity in the Poetry of J. H. Prynne (Newcastle, 2012) and Życie po życiu (published in Polish; Łódź, 2012).
Antoni Górny, University of Warsaw

Antoni Górny (MA) is a doctoral student at the University of Warsaw. In 2012 he received the Fulbright Junior Advanced Research Award for a six-month fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He translated into Polish such authors as Slavoj Žižek (Violence, 2010), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (The Post-Colonial Critic, 2011, cotranslator), Terry Eagleton (The Idea of Culture, 2012), or Tom Clancy (Command Authority, 2014, co-translator). He is currently teaching at the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw and working on a dissertation on the black action films of the 1970s.
Krzysztof Majer, University of Łódź

Krzysztof Majer is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Łódź. His academic interests include contemporary North American literature and musico-literary intermediality. His doctoral dissertation was devoted to Mordecai Richler; he contributed to the Richler issue of Canadian Literature (2010). He has also published on V. Nabokov, S. Millhauser, R. Hage, M. A. Jarman, J. Kerouac and T. Bernhard. With Grzegorz Kość, he co-edited Tools of Their Tools: Communications Technologies and American Cultural Practice (2009). He is also a translator, e.g., of Allen Ginsberg’s letters (2014, awarded the Literatura na Świecie prize).
Bill Gaston, University of Victoria

Bill Gaston is a Canadian writer based in Victoria, British Columbia, where he is a professor at the University of Victoria. He is an author of seven novels (e.g., The Good Body, The Order of Good Cheer, The World), six short fiction collections (e.g., Sex is Red, Mount Appetite, Gargoyles, Juliet Was a Surprise), a poetry collection (Inviting Blindness), as well as a memoire and scripts for both stage and screen. His writings have garnered, among others, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, The Timothy Findley Award (for a body of work), the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, the CBC Canadian Literary Award, and several National Magazine Awards for fiction, as well as nominations for both the Governor General’s Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His fiction has been translated into several languages, including French and Polish. He is married to the writer Dede Crane.
Uilleam Blacker, University College London

Uilleam Blacker is a Lecturer in Comparative East European Culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He specializes in the cultures of Ukraine, Poland and Russia. He has worked with Molodyi Teatr London since 2010, and is the author of Bloody East Europeans (2014), and co-author, with Olesya Khromeychuk, of Penetrating Europe, or Migrants Have Talent (2016). He has also published short stories in Stand, The Edinburgh Review and New Writing Scotland, and translations of several contemporary Ukrainian writers.
Joanna Kosmalska, University of Łódź

Joanna Kosmalska is a research-and-teaching fellow in Department of British Literature and Culture, University of Łódź. She is the author and deputy coordinator of the project Polish (e)migration literature in Ireland and Great Britain since 2004 (DEC-2011/01/B/HS2/05120) and the editor of the Virtual Archive The Polish Diaspora in the UK and Ireland. Migrations in Literature and Culture: archiwumemigracja.uni.lodz.pl/en/

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Blacker, Uilleam. Bloody East Europeans. Dir. Olesya Khromeychuk. London: Molodyi Teatr, 2014. Play.

Blacker, Uilleam, and Olesya Khromeychuk. Penetrating Europe, or Migrants Have Talent. Dir. Olesya Khromeychuk. London: Molodyi Teatr, 2016. Play.

Celebration of Artistic Resistance. Performance based on works by Soviet Ukrainian and Russian dissident poets, Lina Kostenko, Vasyl Stus, Evgeny Evtushenko, Hayim Nahman Bialik. Dir. Olesya Khromeychuk. London: Molodyi Teatr, 2012. Play.

Den’ nezalezhnosti/Independence Day. Performance based on works of contemporary Ukrainian poets, Yuri Andrukhovych, Serhii Zhadan and Oleksandr Irvanets. Dir. Olesya Khromeychuk. London: Molodyi Teatr, 2011. Play.

Gogol, Nikolai. Nich pered rizdvom (The Night before Christmas). Trans. and dir. Olesya Khromeychuk. London: Molodyi Teatr, 2010. Play.

Gogol, Nikolai. Propala Hramota (The Lost Letter). Trans. and dir. Olesya Khromeychuk. London: Molodyi Teatr, 2011. Play.

Khromeychuk, Olesya, Holodomor. Performance based on testimonies of survivors of the famine in Ukraine in 1932–33. London: Molodyi Teatr, 2013. Play.

Khromeychuk, Olesya. The Other Half of the Maidan. Performance based on interviews with women who participated in the Maidan protests. London: Molodyi Teatr, 2015. Play.

Moia mova/My Language. Performance based around several basic words in English, French, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Hebrew. Dir. Olesya Khromeychuk. London: Molodyi Teatr, 2012. Play.

Shevchenko, Taras. Son (Komedia) (The Dream [A Comedy]). Dir. Olesya Khromeychuk. London: Molodyi Teatr, 2013. Play.