Prof. Tomasz SIKORA, PhD (habilitatus)
Deputy Head, School of PhD Studies
room: 310
https://up-krakow.academia.edu/TomaszSikora
ORCID: 0000-0001-9537-4184
publications:
http://bgbase.up.krakow.pl/consultation: by appointment
Position:
- Professor of the Pedagogical University
Positions held in the Institute and the University:
- Doctoral School Deputy Director,
- Chairperson of the Rector’s Equal Treatment Committee.
Degrees:
- 2014; doktor habilitowany;
Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie;
Thesis: “Bodies Out of Rule: Transversal Readings in Canadian Literature and Film”;
Reviewer: Recenzja prof. zw. dr hab. Mirosława Buchholtz, prof. UAM dr hab. Agnieszka Rzepa, dr hab. Tomasz Basiuk.
- 2001; doktor nauk humanistycznych;
Uniwersytet Śląski, Katowice;
Thesis: „The Ethics of the Wild: Wilderness and Technology at the Turn of the Millennium”;
Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Ewa Borkowska;
Reviewer: prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Rachwał, prof. dr hab. Joanna Durczak.
- 1996; magister filologii angielskiej;
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Poznań;
Thesis: „The Myth of Fall in William Blake’s Early Prophecies”;
Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Andrzej Kopcewicz.
Main field of research:
- Literary Studies
Department:
- Department of English Literatures
Research Interests:
- Queer Theory,
- Posthumanism ,
- Cultural and Media Studies,
- American Literature and Culture,
- Canadian Literature and Culture,
- Biopolitics.
Teaching:
- Academic Writing,
- Intermediality,
- Phenomenology of fiction,
- MA seminar,
- Gothic and Grotesque in American Literature.
Membership in Academic Societies:
- Polish Association of American Studies
Membership of Boards of Scholarly Journals:
- InterAlia: a journal of queer studies
Selected visiting lectures:
- 2017; wykład „Rzecz o estetyce i polityce pożądania” jako wydarzenie towarzyszące wystawie prac Pauliny Ołowskiej „Amoreski – Intelektualny Koktajl Erotyki Kobiecej” w Galerii Foksal w Warszawie,
- 2016; Leibniz Universität Hannover, wykłady w ramach letniej szkoły “Inside/Outside: Queer Networks in Transnational Perspective”,
- 2014; „Biopolityka i (post)ekologia” w ramach warsztatów Methodologies in American Studies dla młodych naukowców, Uniwersyet Wrocławski,
- 2014; “Living with an Alien; or, (Again) Against Representation” w Research Centre for Identities, Politics and Cultures – IPAK.Center w ramach Summer School For Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics,
- 2013; Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich UW, seminarium na temat książki Virtually Wild. Wilderness, Technology, and the Ecology of Mediation w ramach Transatlantic Symposium seminar on Sustainability in Education, Culture and Politics,
- 2013; Ohrid, Macedonia, seminarium „The violence of inclusion and the ethics of betrayal” w ramach międzynarodowego kursu Summer Institute for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics,
- 2012; Szczecin Canadian Studies Group, wykład „On (not) being at home. Modes of (un)belonging in selected examples from Canadian film and literature”,
- 2011; University of La Laguna, Hiszpania, seminarium “Multiculturalism and the Work of Desire: Transversal Readings in Canadian Film and Literature” w ramach Curso Superior de Estudios Canadienses,
- 2011; Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich UW, wykład „Multiculturalism and the Work of Desire: Transversal Readings in Canadian Film and Literature” w ramach the American Studies Colloquium Series,
- 2011; Canadian Studies Centre UMK, wykład „Gothic carnalities in Canadian Cinema”,
- 2009; University of Cyprus, Nicosia – cykl wykładów.
Main Publications:
Monographs:
- “Bodies Out of Rule: Transversal Readings in Canadian Literature and Film”. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego, 2014.
- “Virtually Wild: Wilderness, Technology and the Ecology of Mediation”. Wydawnictwo Akademii Techniczno-Humanistycznej. Bielsko-Biała. 2003.
Articles:
- “Contesting Pasts and Futures: Notes on Queer Politics in Neoliberal Poland” (with Rafał Majka). Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces. Ed. Susan Pearce, Eugenia Sojka. Springer: 2021, s. 231-244.
- “Queer life-worlds and the art of David Wojnarowicz”. Journal of Gender Studies. 2020, vol. 29, nr 1, s. 76-87.
- “The queer love life of photo(n)s”. The Materiality of Love: Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice. Ed. Anna Malinowska, Michael Gratzke. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group: 2018, s. 193-208.
- ‘Shockingly Like, and Unlike, Home’: Gothic Realism in the Progress of Love”. Alice Munro: Understanding, Adapting and Teaching. Ed. Mirosława Buchholtz. Springer: 2016, s. 49-64.
- “‘Murderous Pleasures’: The (Female) Gothic and the Death Drive in Selected Short Stories by Margaret Atwood, Isabel Huggan and Alice Munro “. Gothic Topographies: Language, Nation Building and “Race”. Ed. P. M. Mehtonen, Matti Savolainen. Ashgate: 2013, s. 203-216.