Prof. Tomasz SIKORA, PhD (habilitatus)

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.