Dr Beata Zawadka

beata.zawadka@usz.edu.pl

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Dr Beata Zawadka is Associate Professor in the Institute of English at the Szczecin University, Poland. She has earned her Ph.D. from the University of Łódź, Poland. Her doctoral dissertation was on the work of Peter Taylor. She is a literary scholar by education, southernist by specialization, and an ardent cinephile. At present she teaches mainly film.  As a zealous francophile, however, Beata Zawadka adds French studies to the scope of her research. Her latest (postdoctoral) project, to be published in May 2018, will be entitled Dis/Reputed Region. Transcoding the U.S. South. She is a member of the Performance International (PSi), IASA,  EAAS (PAAS), and of the Southern Studies Forum of the EAAS. Dr. Zawadka has presented at conferences in the European Union and beyond, and has also published — in Poland and abroad — on topics linked to her fields of research.

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RESEARCH FOCUS

cinema of the U.S. South in the performative view

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TEACHING FOCUS

cinema: language of / theory of / theory of genres / history of / transmedial connections

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Zawadka, Beata. "A Tarnished Lady? Tallulah Bankhead’s Southern Performance in Hollywood. Constructing the Self: Essays on Southern Life-Writing. Valencia: The University of Valencia 2017: 253-265.

2. Zawadka, Beata. "'I Have Not Forgot Much, Cynara!’ Gone With the Wind as Global Sensibility." Dixie Matters. New Perspectives on Southern Femininities and Masculinities. Ed. Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL 2013: 195-207.

3. Reimann, Joanna, Beata Zawadka. „Mondo Trasho? The American South According to John Waters.” Queer sexualities: Staking Out New Territories in Queer Studies. Ed. Anne Worthington. Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press 2012: 97-110. 

4. Zawadka, Beata. Dixie jest kobietą. Proza Petera Taylora wobec problemu współczesnej południowej kobiecości. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2011.

5. Zawadka, Beata. “Halfway Through: The Porch as a Metaphor for the Southerner’s Transcultural Identity.” Polish Journal for American Studies. Ed. Marek Paryż. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Adam Mickiewicz University 2009: 117-25.