Major interests: Twentieth-century Polish literature; exile and emigration as discourse and as practice; modernism/postmodernism/avant-garde; diasporic and minority cultures; Jewish-Polish relations.

Current Project:
“Spaces of Language/Spaces of Exile in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz”

Selected Publications:

• “Rituals at the Limits of Literature. A New Reading of Witold Gombrowicz’s Cosmos.” The Sarmatian Review, Vol. 27 (3) September 2007, 1323-1332.
• "Wyprawa na krańce literatury - nowe spojrzenie na Kosmos." Kresy: Kwartalnik Literacki, Vol. 3 (67), September 2006, 103-111.
• "Sektor's Suspicions." In Alphabet City 10: The Suspect. Ed. John Knechtel. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006. 234-40.
• Gombrowicz contra Milosz: Towards a Poetics of Displacement." In Cross-Cultural Relations and Exile. Ed. Danièle Issa-Sayegh and Salvatore Bancheri. Ottawa: LEGAS Publishing, 2005. 269-78.
• “Anxieties and Alterities: The Poetics of East European Identity in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” In Proceedings of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations’ Annual Meetings, 2000-2003. Ed. Leslie Fife. Lubbock: Texas Tech University, CD-ROM, 2003, 1238-1253.
• "A Mind Divided: Dual Exile of Czeslaw Milosz." Russian, Croatian and Serbian, Czech and Slovak, Polish Literature, Vol. 52 (4) November 2002, 355-77.
• "Life as Intertext: Distance, Deception and Intentionality in Marek Hłasko’s Killing the Second Dog." Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 44 (1-2) March-June 2002, 19-37.
• "Inscribing Otherness: Polish-American Writers after the Great Divide." In Living in Translation: Polish Writers in America. Ed. Halina Stephan. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. 331-77.
• "Wyrażać odmienność: Pisarze polsko-amerykańscy po okresie wielkiego podziału." In Życie w przekładzie Ed. Halina Stephan, Trans. Magda Heydel et al. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2001. 279-307.

Reviews:

• The Look of Architecture, by Witold Rybczynski (New York: Oxford University Press/The New York Public Library, 2001). The Sarmatian Review, Vol. 27 (1) January 2007, 1269-70.
• Smoke: A Novel, by Elizabeth Ruth (Toronto: Penguin, 2005). Ideas: The Arts and Science Review (Toronto), Vol. 3 (1) Spring 2006, 62.
• Through The Poet's Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky, by Bożena Shallcross (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2002). Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 45 (1-2) March-June 2003, 277-80.

Translations:

• "Instead of an Introduction" and "A Note". English translation of "Zamiast wstepu" and "Nota". In Artur Tanikowski, Eugeniusz Zak. Bilingual Polish-English Edition. Sejny, Poland: The Borderland Foundation, 2003, 9-12.
• “Ars Poetica – Or a Few Casual Comments on the Subject(s) of Writing.” English translation of Paweł Huelle, “Ars Poetica, czyli kilka lużnych uwag na temat – o czym warto pisać.” In Borderland’s ‘Café Europa’ Program for Kosmopolis: An International Literature Festival, Barcelona 2002. Ed. Krzysztof Czyzewski. Sejny, Poland: The Borderland Foundation, 2002, 1-14.

Courses Taught:

• CWL 201 Introduction to Comparative Literary Studies I: Comparative Exile
• CWL 581 Modernism and its Aftershocks (graduate seminar)
• POL 302 Readings in Polish
• POL 446 Problems in Polish Literature: Émigrés and Exiles, 1791 to 1991
• SLA 452 Polish and Czech Avant-Gardes (with David Cooper)