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George Gasyna

Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies

UIUC

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Comparative and World Literature

School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics

Department of Comparative & World Literature

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

George Gasyna is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts & Sciences Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies at Uiuc.

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George Gasyna

UIUC

Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies

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literature literary criticism literary history literary theory modern literature literary studies comparative literature world literature textual practice intellectual history slavic languages transnational history historiography postcolonial writing cultural studies european society interdisciplinary history post-colonial criticism humanities decoloniality historical methodology narrative representation joseph conrad polish literature global history geopolitics contemporary fiction cultural cosmopolitanism ya literature cultural texts european issue first-person narratives critical theory material culture social semiotics art research international history historical review french history french studies african identity diaspora studies hauntology radical aesthetics cultural theory internationalism (politics) fascism in europe classical sociology critical geography philosophy of history historical scholarship historical evidence historical sociology historical transition regional research international comparative perspective narrative and identity folklore studies folklore tradition religious symbol historical analysis triple compact exilic discourse great divide polish soul polish writings conrad ’ between exilic self-fashioning metropolitan modernity provincial poetics temporal distortion colonial discourse borderline civilization nataša kovačević young poland modernity

Notable Scholarly Works

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A Time for the Province: Palimpsests and Borders in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature. McGill-Queen's University Press (2025)

George Gasyna

modern literaturecultural historyintellectual historyliteratureslavic languagesworld literatureinterdisciplinary historyliterary historyhistorical methodologytwentieth-century polish literatureliterary theorycomparative literaturetransnational historyliterary studieshistorical linguisticshistoriographyliterary criticism

The Dangerous Subject is the Displaced Subject: Conrad’s Short Fictions. Bloomsbury Academic eBooks (2022)

George Z. Gasyna

literary historyliteratureliterary theorycomparative literaturevictorian literatureliterary studiesnarrative representationdisplaced subjectpost-colonial criticismliterary criticism

A Kind of Testament: Reading Witold Gombrowicz as a Transnational Writer. A Companion to World Literature (2019)

George Gasyna

cultural historyliterary historyworld literatureliteraturecomparative literaturetransnational historyliterary studiesbaltic portbuenos airestextual practicetransnational writerliterary criticism

“Sailing Towards Poland” With Joseph Conrad. The Polish Review (2019)

George Gasyna

joseph conradcultural historyliterary historyworld literatureliteraturefascism in europecomparative literatureliterary studiescontemporary fictionliterary criticism

Andrzej Stasiuk and the Myth of the Literary Gastarbajter. Indiana University Press eBooks (2018)

George Gasyna

modern literatureliterary historyliterary theoryliterary gastarbajtercomparative literatureliterary studieshistorical scholarshiptextual practiceliterary criticism

Form and Instability. Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference. Slavic Review (2018)

George Gasyna

european societyeuropean issueeastern europehistorical transitioncivilizationsmodernity

Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference. by Anita Starosta. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. Flashpoints Series. X, 221 Pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. $34.95, Paper.. Slavic Review (2018)

George Gasyna

european societyanita starostacultural historyeuropean integrationworld literaturehistoryeuropean issueinternational comparative perspectiveeastern europeregional studiescivilizationstransnational historyflashpoints seriesregional researchmodernity

Iconoclasm and Nation-Building (Witold Gombrowicz). In T. Trojanowska, P. Czaplinski, & J. Nizynska (Eds.), Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 (2018)

George Gasyna

global historycultural historyintellectual historyhistoryhistorical methodologyheritage studiescultural studiescultural heritagetransnational historywitold gombrowicznationalismpost-colonial criticismpostcolonial writing

Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self. (2017)

G.W. Stephen BrodskyGeorge Zbigniew Gasyna

modern literatureliterary historyintellectual historyliteraturepolish soulliterary theoryliterary studieshauntologyliterary criticism

Tandeta (Trash): Bruno Schulz and the Micropolitics of Everyday Life. Slavic Review (2015)

George Gasyna

social semioticsart researchtemporal distortionmaterial culturecultural studiesliterary theorycultural theoryprovincial poeticsmetropolitan modernityhumanitiestextual practicevisual cultureart

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George Gasyna

Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies

UIUC

Affiliations

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Comparative and World Literature

School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics

Department of Comparative & World Literature

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

George Gasyna is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts & Sciences Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies at Uiuc.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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George Gasyna

UIUC

Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

A Time for the Province: Palimpsests and Borders in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature. McGill-Queen's University Press (2025)

George Gasyna

The Dangerous Subject is the Displaced Subject: Conrad’s Short Fictions. Bloomsbury Academic eBooks (2022)

George Z. Gasyna

literary historyliteratureliterary theorycomparative literaturevictorian literatureliterary studiesnarrative representationdisplaced subjectpost-colonial criticismliterary criticism

A Kind of Testament: Reading Witold Gombrowicz as a Transnational Writer. A Companion to World Literature (2019)

George Gasyna

cultural historyliterary historyworld literatureliteraturecomparative literaturetransnational historyliterary studiesbaltic portbuenos airestextual practicetransnational writerliterary criticism

“Sailing Towards Poland” With Joseph Conrad. The Polish Review (2019)

George Gasyna

joseph conradcultural historyliterary historyworld literatureliteraturefascism in europecomparative literatureliterary studiescontemporary fictionliterary criticism

Andrzej Stasiuk and the Myth of the Literary Gastarbajter. Indiana University Press eBooks (2018)

George Gasyna

modern literatureliterary historyliterary theoryliterary gastarbajtercomparative literatureliterary studieshistorical scholarshiptextual practiceliterary criticism

Form and Instability. Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference. Slavic Review (2018)

George Gasyna

european societyeuropean issueeastern europehistorical transitioncivilizationsmodernity

George Gasyna

Iconoclasm and Nation-Building (Witold Gombrowicz). In T. Trojanowska, P. Czaplinski, & J. Nizynska (Eds.), Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 (2018)

George Gasyna

Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self. (2017)

G.W. Stephen BrodskyGeorge Zbigniew Gasyna

modern literatureliterary historyintellectual historyliteraturepolish soulliterary theoryliterary studieshauntologyliterary criticism

Tandeta (Trash): Bruno Schulz and the Micropolitics of Everyday Life. Slavic Review (2015)

George Gasyna

social semioticsart researchtemporal distortionmaterial culturecultural studiesliterary theorycultural theoryprovincial poeticsmetropolitan modernityhumanitiestextual practicevisual cultureart

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