User:Mcieslak
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|description = Marta Cieslak<br/> | |description = Marta Cieslak<br/> | ||
|research_interests = 20th century US literature and history<br/> | |research_interests = 20th century US literature and history<br/> | ||
Revision as of 21:44, 4 December 2008
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| Marta Cieslak | |
| Research interests: | 20th century US literature and history |
| Institutional affiliation: | University at Buffalo |
| Departmental affiliation: | American Studies |
| Office location: | 426 Baird Hall |
| E-mail: | cieslak2@buffalo.edu |
| URI: | Polish studies profile |
| Membership status: | Student member |
| Digital projects: | [URI NAME OF PROJECT] |
Marta Cieslak
Background
I’m a Ph.D. student in American Studies and teaching assistant in the Polish Studies Program. With the degrees in American and Polish Studies I have been trying to look into US and Polish history from the transnational perspective that investigates comparable historical and social circumstances across the two countries. My academic interests have been revolving around the questions of nationalism and its place within the Western liberal thought. I’m also looking into the issues of nation building under specific political circumstances and how the authorship of political and social ideas labels and influences their classifications in dominant discourses. With the support of DHIB, together with Professor Keith Griffler of African American Studies, I am currently working on the project “1968: I odezwą się z góry/Voices from the Mountaintop.”
Digital interests
The bilingual project “1968: I odezwą się z góry/Voices from the Mountaintop” is multimedia work including research on the transnational history of the social and political ferment and the literature of 1968 in Poland and the US.
In summer 2008, with the financial support of DHIB, we were able to conduct interviews with the participants of 1968 student protests in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, we had an opportunity to spend two months in numerous Polish archives, including The National Polish Archive, The National Library Archive and The Archive of The KARTA Center - an independent non-governmental organization documenting and popularizing the recent history of Poland and Eastern Europe. Currently we are doing research examining the US component of the project that is developing into the analysis of nationalism under two seemingly distinct political systems.
