- Eugenia Sojka, D.Litt., Ph.D., M.A.
Associate Professor of Canadian Literature
Director of Canadian Studies Centre
University of Silesia in Katowice
Ul. Gen. Stefana Grota-Roweckiego 5
41-205 Sosnowiec
POLAND
- University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Cultural Studies, Faculty Memberadd
- Indigenous Knowledge, Postdramatic theatre, Canadian Culture & Identity, Theatre Studies, Critical Theory, Canadian Drama, and 27 moreCanadian Literature, Dramaturgy, Cultural Studies, Storytelling and Indigenous Worldviews, Canadian Theatre, Indigenous Studies, Performing Arts, Performance Studies, Indigenous Worldview, Transformative Learning Theory, Action Research, Borderlands Studies, Decolonial Thought, Decolonizing Methodologies, Intercultural Theatre, Performance As Research, Storytelling, Oral Traditions, First Nations of Canada, Amerindian Cosmologies, Amerindian Perspectivism, Amerindian Studies, Indigenous Religions, Indigenous theatre, Theatre and Performance Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Transcultural theory, Media Studies Theatre and Performance Studies, and Theater and Performance Studiesedit
- Eugenia Sojka, Ph.D., D. Litt., Associate Professor, Adjunct Professor, University of the Fraser Valley, Canada; ... moreEugenia Sojka, Ph.D., D. Litt., Associate Professor, Adjunct Professor, University of the Fraser Valley, Canada; former Director of Canadian Studies Centre, University of Silesia, Poland; former vice-President of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in English (with a dissertation on Canadian literature) from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Her research interests focus on Canadian diasporic and Indigenous literature and culture, and intercultural and Indigenous drama, theatre and performance. She is author of numerous journal publications in the area of Canadian Studies and also editor and co-editor of several books and journals: (De)Constructing Canadianness. Myth of the Nation and Its Discontents, Embracing Otherness. Canadian Minority Discourses in Transcultural Perspectives (with Tomasz Sikora), Państwo, Naród, Tożsamość w Dyskursach Kulturowych Kanady [State, Nation, Identity in Canadian Cultural Discourses] (with M.Buchholtz) and Alice Munro: Reminiscence, Interpretation, Adaptation, and Comparison (with M.Buchholtz). Since 2000 she has been organizing annual Days of Canadian Culture, workshops, conferences, as well as lectures and readings by Canadian writers, artists and academics. She pioneered the teaching of Canadian Studies at the University of Silesia and founded the Canadian Studies Centre and Canadian Studies Student Circle. Several M.A. theses supervised by her were awarded the “Nancy Burke Best M.A. thesis Award” in Poland. She received grants for students to travel to Canada to pursue research and studies and for the development of Canadian Studies at the University of Silesia. She is the initiator and the University of Silesia coordinator of the nationwide contest on Canada for high school students “Discover Canada.”edit
The book examines the concept of Indigenous theatre as theorized by artist-scholar-researcher Floyd Favel (Cree) from Poundmaker reserve, Canada. It focuses both on his pioneering critical work on Indigenous theatre and essays devoted to... more
The book examines the concept of Indigenous theatre as theorized by artist-scholar-researcher Floyd Favel (Cree) from Poundmaker reserve, Canada. It focuses both on his pioneering critical work on Indigenous theatre and essays devoted to diverse aspects of Indigenous cultures in Canada. Favel was the only Indigenous student of Jerzy Grotowski, Polish revolutionary theatre artist, and scholar. The book contains translations into Polish of Favel's select critical essays, poetry, and his play. It also contains four essays on his work and theatre methodologies, as well as on Cree culture and storytelling.
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Canadian writer Alice Munro is the 2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature. This collection of essays by authors from Poland, Canada and France presents an intercultural perspective on her work and a new approach to Munro’s art of short story... more
Canadian writer Alice Munro is the 2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature. This collection of essays by authors from Poland, Canada and France presents an intercultural perspective on her work and a new approach to Munro’s art of short story writing. It offers literary interpretation of the genre, critical perspectives on film and stage adaptations of her work, comparative analysis to the writings of Mavis Gallant and Eudora Welty, exclusive reminiscences of encounters with Alice Munro by Canadian writers Tomson Highway and Daphne Marlatt, and a unique African-Canadian perspective on Munro’s work by George Elliott Clarke.
The book is a collection of essays on the construction and questioning of Canadian nationalist discourses and cultural identity. The notion of Canadianness is discussed on the basis of literature, critical theory, film, theatre, painting... more
The book is a collection of essays on the construction and questioning of Canadian nationalist discourses and cultural identity. The notion of Canadianness is discussed on the basis of literature, critical theory, film, theatre, painting music, politics and sociology. This interdisciplinary project presents views of writers and critics of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Essays in this collection discuss various forms of otherness (etnicity, race, class, accent, gender) as examined in literature, culture and the arts of multiple Canadian cultural diasporas, as well as Indigenous people of Canada.
These papers consitute the Conference Proceedings from Cultural Transformations and Civil Society: Reflecting on a Decade of Change, May 13-16, 1999 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. True to the conference organizational... more
These papers consitute the Conference Proceedings from Cultural Transformations and Civil Society: Reflecting on a Decade of Change, May 13-16, 1999 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. True to the conference organizational design, the essays in this book are grouped thematically rather than by discipline. Thus, the reader finds varying perspectives on a number of cultural processes that are observable in the region: tradition revived and contested, inventions and innovations, new publics, and the politics of culture. We use this approach to encourage crossdisciplinary and cross-national dialogue.
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Research Interests: Geography, Eastern Europe, Political Science, Politics, Bulgaria, and 9 morePoland, Russia, Romania, Hungary, Latvia, Croatia, Roma People, Lithuania, and Publics
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Rozmowy wśród Innych : rola kanadyjskich dyskursów mniejszościowych w promowaniu komunikacji transkulturowej. (Czy "biała Kanada" potrzebuje "czarnoskórej Ani z Zielonego Wzgórza"? : rozmowy z Innymi wśród Innych o Innych : kanadyjskie dyskursy mniejszościowe a budowanie dialogu transkulturowego)more
Polityka kulturowa rządu kanadyjskiego w stosunku do grup narodowych innych niż angielskie i francuskie zmieniała się wielokrotnie. Metanarracje narodowe tworzone przez polityków, krytyków, pisarzy i artystów opierały się najpierw na idei... more
Polityka kulturowa rządu kanadyjskiego w stosunku do grup narodowych innych niż angielskie i francuskie zmieniała się wielokrotnie. Metanarracje narodowe tworzone przez polityków, krytyków, pisarzy i artystów opierały się najpierw na idei dwukulturowości, a od roku 1971 na oficjalnej polityce wielokulturowości, która miała na celu stworzenie dogodnych warunków rozwoju wszystkich kultur zamieszkujących Kanadę i stała się wzorem do naśladowania przez wiele państw. Krytycy kanadyjskiej polityki wielokulturowości twierdzą jednak, iż dyskurs „inności” przenika instytucje kultury, a etniczno- rasowe mniejszości znajdują się poza kręgiem kanadyjskiego „wyobrażonego społeczeństwa”, a co za tym idzie, kultury narodowej. Podział literatury i kultury kanadyjskiej na stale rosnącą liczbę kategorii takich jak: azjatycko- kanadyjska, afrykańsko-kanadyjska, diasporyczna kanadyjska czy kanadyjska ludność rdzenna, jest uznawany za przejaw jej instytucjonalizacji, a tym samym „kontroli epistemologicz...
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The paper examines Indigenous theatre theories by Floyd Favel (Cree) and his essays on Indigenous cultures
These papers consitute the Conference Proceedings from Cultural Transformations and Civil Society: Reflecting on a Decade of Change May 13-16 1999 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow Poland. True to the conference organizational design... more
These papers consitute the Conference Proceedings from Cultural Transformations and Civil Society: Reflecting on a Decade of Change May 13-16 1999 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow Poland. True to the conference organizational design the essays in this book are grouped thematically rather than by discipline. Thus the reader finds varying perspectives on a number of cultural processes that are observable in the region: tradition revived and contested inventions and innovations new publics and he politics of culture. We use this approach to encourage crossdisciplinary and cross-national dialogue.
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The study analyzes language- and theory-focused texts by four Canadian women writers: Lola Lemire Tostevin, Betsy Warland, Gail Scott and Erin Moure. The texts are read as representative of a contemporary avant-garde. The term... more
The study analyzes language- and theory-focused texts by four Canadian women writers: Lola Lemire Tostevin, Betsy Warland, Gail Scott and Erin Moure. The texts are read as representative of a contemporary avant-garde. The term avant-garde, when used in conjunction with modernism or postmodernism, points to the more radical, norm-breaking aspects of both movements. Avant-garde writing is read as a reincarnation of the spirit of carnival. The concept of “carnival,” with all its Bakhtinian and Kristevan associations, when translated into literature accounts for multiple subversions of language and forms of writing. Such forms of feminist writing as "ecriture feminine" and "feminnage" are examined in the thesis. The writers explore the writing itself as a process of finding a form through a dialogue with multiple genres and modes of writing. -- These language-focused texts explore the concept of intersemiotic translation of body into a written script. In this process...
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These papers consitute the Conference Proceedings from Cultural Transformations and Civil Society: Reflecting on a Decade of Change, May 13-16, 1999 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. True to the conference organizational... more
These papers consitute the Conference Proceedings from Cultural Transformations and Civil Society: Reflecting on a Decade of Change, May 13-16, 1999 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. True to the conference organizational design, the essays in this book are grouped thematically rather than by discipline. Thus, the reader finds varying perspectives on a number of cultural processes that are observable in the region: tradition revived and contested, inventions and innovations, new publics, and the politics of culture. We use this approach to encourage crossdisciplinary and cross-national dialogue.
