dr Katarzyna Małecka - publikacje naukowe
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
1. Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2008
Articles and Chapters in Books of Collected Articles:
1. “Stranger than Fiction: Gothic Themes in Bereavement Memoirs of Spousal Loss.” Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories. Ed. Agnieszka Łowczanin and Katarzyna Małecka. Routledge, 2019. 248-261. Print.
2. “My body, my heart and my soul ache for things to return to normal”: Representations of Grief as an Illness in Modern Grief Memoirs.” In Sickness and in Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Illness. Ed. Katarzyna Szmigiero and Dorota Gonigroszek. Piotrków Trybunalski: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego, 2017. 73-85. Print.
3. “Remembering, Forgetting and Healing in Modern Bereavement Memoirs.” Memory: Forgetting and Creating. Ed. Wojciech Owczarski, Zofia Ziemann and Amanda Chalupa. Gdańsk: Gdańsk UP, 2016. 234-243.
4. “The W Word: Modern Ways of Grieving in The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and A Widow’s Story by Joyce Carol Oates.” And Death Shall Have Dominion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying, Caregivers, Death, Mourning and the Bereaved. Ed. Katarzyna Małecka and Rossanna Gibbs. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2015. 187-196. E-book.
5. “‘Bryan has posted new pictures!’: Benefits and Traps of Online Grieving and Memorializing the Dead.” Language, Literature and Teaching at the Time of the Digital Revolution. Ed. Krzysztof Andrzejczak. Lodz: SAN, 2015. 33-42. Print.
6. “Altered States of a Grieving Mind: Contemplation of Suicide, Seclusion and Selfhood in A Widow’s Story by Joyce Carol Oates.” And Then the Monsters Come Out: Madness, Language and Power. Ed. Fiona Ann Papps. Oxford, Freeland: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014. 1-10. E-book.
7. “‘I’ve seen bodies shining like stars’: Making a Case for Necrophilia in Lynne Stopkewich’s Kissed.” All that Gothic: Dis/Continuities, Toruń Studies in Language, Literature and Culture. Ed. Dorota Wiśniewska, Agnieszka Łowczanin. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2014. 244-258. Print.
8. “‘It’s a Mr. Death or something. He has come about the reaping. I don’t think we need any at the moment’: Death and the Denial of Death in the Works of Monty Python.” Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Cultural Contexts in Monty Python. Ed. Tomasz Dobrogoszcz. Introduction by Terry Jones. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. 3-22. Print.
9. “‘There Are Things Much Worse than Death’: (Im)mortality and (Im)morality in the Harry Potter Series.” (Non)omnis moriar: Cultural and Literary Discourses of Death and Immortality. Ed. Irmina Wawrzyczek and Aleksandra Kędzierska. Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska UP, 2012. 241-247. Print.
10. “A Word from the Office: Dennis O’Driscoll’s Poetic Approach to Work.” Dyskursy o Kulturze: Etosy Pracy (Cultural Discourses: Work Ethos). Ed. Danuta Barańska. Łódź: SAN, 2012. 89-112. Print.
11. “Nothing to Laugh About: Death and Humor in Film and Literature.” Humour: Theories, Applications, Practices: Codes of Humour. Ed. Alina Kwiatkowska and Agnieszka Stanecka. Piotrków Trybunalski: NWP, 2012. 121-129. Print.
12. “The American Under-Achievers, and Proud We Are of All of Them: Idlers and Slackers in American Literature and Film and Their Role in American Culture.” Dyskursy o Kulturze: Etosy Pracy (Cultural Discourses: Work Ethos). Ed. Anna Sołtys. Łódź: SAN, 2012. 255-282. Print.
13. “‘All but Death, can be Adjusted’: Making Sense of Death and Dying in Film and Literature.” The Language of Culture: Sense, Common-Sense and Non-Sense. Ed. Ewa Borkowska, Tomasz Burzyński, and Maciej Nowak. Bielsko-Biała: WSEH, 2012. 113-122. Print.
14. “Literary Anatomy Lessons: Dissecting Death in Poetry.” INSIDE-(OUT): Discourses of Interiority and Worldmaking Imagination. Ed. Zbigniew Białas, Paweł Jędrzejko, and Karolina Lebek. Bielsko-Biała: Wydawnictwo WSEH, 2011. 51-64. Print.
15. “The Madness of President George: Disintegration of the Post-9/11 American Unity and Identity.” Cultural Representations of Psychiatry and Mental Illness. Ed. Katarzyna Szmigiero. Piotrków Trybunalski: NWP, 2009. 167-175. Print.
16. “Poezja purytańska jako zwierciadło żądzy homoerotycznych” (“Puritan Poetry as a Mirror of Homoerotic Desire”). Męskość w kulturze współczesnej (Masculinity in Contemporary Culture). Ed. Andrzej Radomski and Bogumiła Truchlińska. Lublin: UMCS, 2008. 335-343. Print.
17. “Anne Bradstreet’s Application of Modern Feminist Theory.” Women's Literary Creativity and the Female Body. Ed. Diane Long Hoeveler and Donna Decker Schuster. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 3-22. Print.
Articles in Journals and Periodicals:
1. “‘Widow trumps all other identities’: The Portrait of a Widow in Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story: A Memoir as a Reflection of Selected Linguistic, Psychological, and Cultural Aspects of Widowhood.” Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny (Neophilological Quarterly) 64.2 (2017): 231-245.
2. “The Self Lost, the Self Adjusted: Forming a New Identity in Bereavement Memoirs by American Women.” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies 50. 2/3. (2015): 155-174. Print.
3. “In Praise of Slacking: Richard Linklater’s Slacker and Kevin Smith’s Clerks as Hallmarks of 1990s American Independent Cinema Counterculture.” Text Matters 5 (2015): 189-204. Print.
4. “A Literary Medical History: Aging, Illness and Death in Philip Roth’s Everyman.” Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny (Neophilological Quarterly) 59.4 (2012): 481-495. Print.
5. “‘The Undiscovered Country,’ ‘A Kind Behind the Door,’ ‘Neverland,’ or ‘A Small Unfocused Blur’: Uncanny Literary Definitions of Death.” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies 47.4 (2012): 147-162. Print
6. “‘The Dude Abides’: How The Big Lebowski Bowled Its Way From a Box Office Bomb To Nation-Wide Fests.” Text Matters 2 (2012): 76-93. Print.
7. “‘Oh … and Jenkins … apparently your mother died this morning’: Monty Python’s Meaning of Death.” Studia Neofilologiczne (Neophilological Studies) 7 (2011): 77-89. Print.
8. “‘There is … a flavour of mortality in lies’: Literary and Cultural Representations Of The Correlation Between Death and Deceit.” Przedsiębiorczość i Zarządzanie (Journal of Management) 12.11 (2011): 7-19. Print.
9. “Men Who Married a Bear: Transformation of the Self in Galway Kinnell's and Gary Snyder's Mythical Lessons of Life in the Spirit of Thoreau.” Studies In English Philology 1.3 (2010): 69-83. Print.
Edited volumes
1. Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories. Ed. Agnieszka Łowczanin and Katarzyna Małecka. Routledge, 2019. (already published)
2. And Death Shall Have Dominion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying, Caregivers, Death, Mourning and the Bereaved. Ed. Katarzyna Małecka and Rossanna Gibbs. Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford, 2015. E-book.
Other activities
23 March 2018 Guest Lecture: “To Die will Be an Awfully Big Adventure”: Interdisciplinary Research – Advantages and Challenges
Faculty Development Series Lecture, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
19 March 2018 Guest Lecture/Research Report: “The Literary, Cultural, and Therapeutic Aspects and Significance of Bereavement Memoirs”
Psychology of Grief & Loss (Psyc 4513/6513); Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
23 October 2017 Guest Lecture/Workshop: “Modern Bereavement Memoirs”
Psychology of Grief & Loss (Psyc 4513/6513); Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
20 April 2017 Guest Lecture: “Grief Memoirs and the Healing Power of Writing”
Caritas Center, The Bereaved Support Group and Caritas Volunteers, Gdańska 111, 90-507 Łódź, Poland
2014 – present Volunteer at Caritas Center, a local charity organization, Lodz
2003 – present Presentations at 30 conferences (Poland, England, Greece, Romania, USA)