Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Office Address
3056
Foreign Languages Building
M/C 173
UIUC campus mail
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Phone
Research Interests
Modern Polish literature
Joseph Conrad - life and works
Witold Gombrowicz - life and works
Critical theory
Emigration, exile, travel writing
Polish-Jewish relations
Education
PhD, University of Toronto
MA, BA, McGill University
Honors & Awards
Conrad Humanities Scholar, 2020-25
https://las.illinois.edu/news/2020-07-14/professors-are-named-conrad-humanities-scholars
HRI Faculty Fellow, 2017-18
https://hri.illinois.edu/history/hri-campus-fellows
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- 1 Similar Profiles
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Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise: Exilic Discourse in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz
Gasyna, G. Z., Jul 2011, London: Continuum. 288 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self
Brodsky, G. W. S. & Gasyna, G. Z. (ed.), 2016, New York: Columbia University Press. 416 p. (Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives; vol. 25)Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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Andrzej Stasiuk and the Myth of the Literary Gastarbajter
Gasyna, G., 2017, Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age: Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia. Walke, A., Musekamp, J. & Svobodny, N. (eds.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, p. 276-298 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Tandeta (Trash): Bruno Schulz and the micropolitics of everyday life
Gasyna, G., Dec 1 2015, In: Slavic Review. 74, 4, p. 760-784 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Between Exilic Self-Fashioning and Nostalgia of the Return: Some Thoughts on Conrad’s Polish Writings
Gasyna, G. Z., 2013, Szlachta’ Culture to the XXI Century, Between East and West: New Essays on Joseph Conrad’s Polishness. New York: Columbia University Press, p. 211-232 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Activities
- 6 Invited talk
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“Gastabajter in Dojczland: Explorations of a Polish Literary ‘Guest Worker’ in Germany and the EU.”
George Zbigniew Gasyna (Speaker)
Sep 28 2015Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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“Memory Games in the Borderlands: Ways of Remembering in Marek Hłasko’s “Israeli Tales” [“Cykl izraelski”] and Piotr Szewc’s Annihilation [Zagłada].”
George Zbigniew Gasyna (Speaker)
Jun 2 2017Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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“In the Garden of Polish Culture: Gombrowicz, Sarmatia, and the Struggle for National Form.”
George Zbigniew Gasyna (Speaker)
Jun 17 2014Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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“Burning Man: On the Optics of Suspicion.”
George Zbigniew Gasyna (Speaker)
Apr 3 2007Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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“Ryszard Kapuscinski – A Poet of Reality.”
George Zbigniew Gasyna (Speaker)
Nov 8 2011Activity: Talk types › Invited talk