Dr hab. Uwe Zagratzki, prof. US

uwe.zagratzki@uni-oldenburg.de

uwe.zagratzki@usz.edu.pl

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Uwe Zagratzki is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures and the Chair of Literature at the Institute of English at Szczecin University. He has published widely in Scottish and Canadian Literature and Culture, Cultural Studies (e.g. African-American Music) and War and Literature. He is a co-founder of the Szczecin Canadian Studies Group and has had teaching and research posts at the Universities of Osnabrück and Oldenburg (Germany), Brno (Czech Republic) and the University of West Georgia (US).

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RESEARCH FOCUS

Scottish Literature and Culture in the 20th and 21st Century, Anglo-Canadian Literature and Culture in the 20th and 21st Century (with a view on Atlantic Canadian Lit), The Construction of the Other in Anglophone Literatures, African American and European Blues, War and Literature

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TEACHING FOCUS

British and North American Literatures from 18th to 21st Century, Scottish Prose, Anglo-Canadian Prose, First Nation Fiction, British Detective Fiction

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Libertäre und Utopische Tendenzen im Erzählwerk James Leslie Mitchells (Lewis Grassic Gibbons) (1991)

2. Deutsche Schottlandbilder (ed. with Winfried Siebers) (1998)

3. Das Blaue Wunder: Blues aus deutschen Landen (ed. with Winfried Siebers) (2010)

4. Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them before and after 9/11 (ed.with Joanna Witkowska) (2014)

5. Despite Harper: International Perceptions of Canadian Literature and Culture (ed. with Hartmut Lutz and Weronika Suchacka) (2014)

6. Exile and Migration – New Reflections on an Old Practise (ed. with Joanna Witkowska) (2016)

7. Disrespected Neighbo(u)rs – Cultural Stereotypes in Literature and Film (ed. with Caroline Rosenthal and Laurenz Volkmann) (2018)