- Papers Presented at
International Conferences -
“Gertrude Bonnin, the California Writings, and Environmental (In)Justice.”
Narrative, Environment, Social Justice. October 21-23, 2022. 49th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, Salzburg, Austria.
“Zitkala-Ša and the Western Wastelands.”
Wastelands: The 34th European Association for American Studies Conference. April 6-8, 2022. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
“Sex in Zitkala-Ša's Activism.”
Sex in the States. April 8-9, 2019. University of Opole, Opole, Poland.
​“Zitkala-Ša's Critique of Euro-American Attitudes toward the Environment.”
Re-Imagining the Limits of the Human. April 12-13, 2018. University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland.
“Zitkala-Ša's Unpublished Protest Writings.”
Protest and Dissent in Translation and Culture. May 11-13, 2017. University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland.
“Zitkala-Ša's Old Indian Legends: A New Perspective.”
New Perspectives in English and American Studies: The Fourteenth International Conference on English and American Literature and Culture. April 20-22, 2017. Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.
"Dying to Save Lives: Zell Kravinsky and Lethal Organ Donation."
Disease, Death, Decay in Literatures, Cultures, and Language. September 26-28, 2016. University of Opole, Opole, Poland.
"Toward a New Interpretation of Zitkala-Ša."
M@king it New in English Studies. September 15-17, 2016. University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
“Zitkala-Ša, Nationalism, and Race.”
Racism, Nationalism and Xenophobia. March 17-18, 2016. University of Gdańsk, University of Finance and Management in Warsaw, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, and McGill University, Warsaw, Poland.
“Intertwining Paths to Self-Realization, Civilization, and Community: Zitkala-Ša's and John Dewey's Philosophies of Education.”
Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences. April 13-16, 2015, International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Paris, France.
“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo: The Outlandish American Norm.”
The Outlandish, Uncanny, and Bizarre in Literatures and Cultures. September 29-30, 2014. University of Opole, Opole, Poland.
“Unethical Brotherly Love: Zell Kravinsky and Maximum Human Utility.”
The Fourth Global Conference on Living Responsibly. May 6-8, 2014. Interdisciplinary.net, Lisbon, Portugal.
“Kansas’s Twentieth-Century Monkey Trials and Tribulations: An Examination of the State Board of Education’s Continuing Evolution vs. Creationism Controversies and the Implications for Science Instruction in the United States.”
Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences. April 14-18, 2013, International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
“Sacrifice for Solidarity's Sake: Zell Kravinsky's Maximum Human Utility."
Solidarity, Memory, and Identity. September 20-21, 2012, University of GdaÅ„sk and Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, GdaÅ„sk, Poland.
“Joel Osteen, the Prosperity Gospel, and the Wages of Christian Conspicuous Consumption.”
Poisoned Cornucopia: Excess, Intemperance, and Overabundance across Literatures and Cultures. September 12-14, 2012, University of Opole, Opole, Poland.
​“Dwight Macdonald on English.”
SDAŠ 2012: The Changes in Epochal Paradigms and the Opportunities They Offer for English Studies. May 10-12 , 2012, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
“A Critique of the Discourse of the Self in Michael Sandel’s Liberalism and the Limits of Justice.”
The Self Industry: Therapy and Fiction. September 22-24, 2011, University of Silesia, Ustroń, Poland.
“Conserving the Past: The Texas Board of Education and the Historical and Ideological Revisionism of 2010.“
Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences. June 7-10, 2011, International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France.
“Disgraceful or Divine? Indian Religious Rituals in John G. Bourke’s The Scatalogic Rites of Nations.”
Evil, Ugliness, and Disgrace in the Cultures of the East and West. October 25-26, 2010, University of Opole, Kamień Śląski, Poland.
​“Dwight Macdonald on Raymond Williams and the Question of the Masses.”
IV SELICUP Conference: Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture: Spaces and Contexts. October 20-22 , 2010, SELICUP and the University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
“Sex Sells: The Galerianki of Poland.”
Consumer Culture: Between Aesthetics, Social Distinction and Ecological Activism. October 7-9, 2010, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
“A Terrorist’s Fears: Theodore Kaczynski’s Industrial Society and Its Future.”
Civilization and Fear: Writing and the Subjects of Fear. September 22-24, 2010, University of Silesia, Ustroń, Poland.
“Lampooning the Queen of Mean: Representations of Leona Helmsley in Popular Culture.”
2nd Global Conference on Evil, Women and the Feminine. May 3-5, 2010, Inter-Disciplinary.net, Prague, Czech Republic.
“An Italian Peasant at the Metropolitan Opera: Stereotyping and Enrico Caruso’s Popular Image in America.”
9th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies. February 4-6, 2010, Masaryk University and the Czech Association for the Study of English, Brno, Czech Republic.
“The Open Trap: Betty Friedan’s Critique of Suburban Space in The Feminine Mystique.”
Space: PASE Conference 2009. April 19-22, 2009, University of Opole and the Polish Association for the Study of English, Kamień Śląski, Poland.
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