Elżbieta Rokosz-Piejko Ph.D.

Elżbieta Rokosz-Piejko
lecturer
e-mail: erokosz@yahoo.com

MA: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, 1993.
PhD: University of Silesia in Katowice, 2001.

Field of Studies: literature and culture of the US; autobiographical texts; African-American literature, ethnic American literature; postcolonial literature; film and television adaptations of literary texts.

Current Courses: American literature survey course, American short story, M.A. and B.A. seminars.

Publications:

Books:

Co-authored with Barbara Niedziela The Highlights of American Literature. (2012), Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo UR. 156.
Hyphenated Identities. The Issue of Cultural Identity in Selected Ethnic American Autobiographical Texts. (2011) Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo UR. 109.

Articles:

„British Costume Drama and the Heritage Debate” [in:] Martynuska, M., Niedziela B., Rokosz-Piejko, E. (eds) The Subcarpathian Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture (2014), Rzeszów, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, str. 198-207.
„George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1994) as an example of the British classic television serial of the 1990s” [in:] Malinowska, M., Rokosz-Piejko E.(eds) Podkarpackie Forum Filologiczne, Seria: Literatura i Kultura, Jarosław, Wydawnictwo PWSTE, pp. 93-104.
„Znacie? To obejrzyjcie. Rzecz o brytyjskich serialowych adaptacjach powieści mniej lub bardziej klasycznych” [in:] Bruszewska-Przytuła, D., Cichomińska, M. i Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska, A. Seriale w kontekście kulturowym: Społeczeństwo i obyczaje, Olsztyn, Instytut Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego, s. 184-197.
“I”, “we” or “they”? Director’s commentary in Special Features of DVD editions and the question of authorship in film and television adaptations” (2013) [in:] Studia Anglica Resoviensia 10, Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, Zeszyt 81/2013. Electronic edition.126-137.
“Illustrating Letters to God: Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple Twenty-Five Years After” (2013) [in:] Narrating American Gender and Ethnic Identites, A.M. Różalska and G. Zygadło, (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Schorals Publishing. 93-102.
“The Preserved, the Lost and the Gained in Adaptation - Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet and the Granada Television Serial.” (2012) [in:] From Page to Screen. A. Kallaus and S. Kozioł (eds.) Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo UR. 149-167.
“Recognising Whiteness in Blackness – The Past Confronted in Octavia Butler’s Kindred” (2010) [in:] Studia Anglica Resoviensia 7, Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, Zeszyt 73/2010. Electronic edition. 52-58.
“Quality Drama in Practice – Paul Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown and the Granada Television Mini-series” (2011) [in:] Studia Anglica Resoviensia 8, Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, Zeszyt 73/2011. Electronic edition. 137-152.
“Trying to Make the Magic Work - Confessions of a Literature Teacher” (2009) [in:] Galicia English Teachings: Old Pitfalls, Changing Attitudes and New Vistas, G.A. Kleparski, E. Rokosz-Piejko, A. Uberman (eds.) Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego.174-181.
“From Pecola to Junior - Black Female Child as the Other in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Sula and Love” (2008) [in:] Language, Literature, Culture and Beyond (eds) R. Kiełtyka, D. Osuchowska, E. Rokosz-Piejko, Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. 285-292.
“A nightmare revisited? Representation of the past in a selection of African-American autobiographical texts” (2003) [in:] Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, Studia Anglica Resoviensia 2, 14/2003 (ed) G. Kleparski, Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. 173-179.
“Falling in Love with Otherness - Some Aspects of Acculturation in Immigrant Autobiographies” (2002) LitaLing Vol 1. 106-114.
“Child in Exile: Mary Antin's and Eva Hoffman's Versions of Exiled Childhood” (2001) [in] W. Kalaga, T. Rachwał (eds) Exile: Displacements and Misplacements, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 173-181.
“Gold Mountain People - Chinese American "Strangers" in Maxine Hong Kingston's Prose” (2000) [in] W. Kalaga, T. Rachwał (eds) Signs of Culture: Simulacra and the Real, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 69-77.
“Stereotyping in EFL Classroom' - one part of a collectively written article 'Why and How To Teach Culture.” Prince Link Conference, Popowo 21-24 March 1996, Conference Papers ISBN 086355 3486.

Reviews:

Adaptation Studies. New Challenges, New Directions. Jørgen Bruhn, Anne Gjelsvik and Eirik Frisvold Hanssen (eds) (London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), p. 292. ISBN 978-1-4411-9266-0. [in:] Moravian Journal of Literature and Film, Volume 4 Number 2 Fall 2013. 83-86.

Guest lecturer within the Erasmus Teacher Mobility Program:

Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction, Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth Univerzita P.J. Šafarika in Kosice, Slovakia, April 2012.
‘American Short Story’ Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain, April 2010.
‘Contemporary British and American Fiction. Zadie Smith and Toni Morrison’, Katholieke Hogeschool Zuid-West-Vlaanderen, Torhout, Belgia, March 2009.
"'A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time, a Sense of Self - Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Post-Colonial Identity'; '"Odd Couplings of Cultures" - Mixing Customs and Vocabularies in Zadie Smith's White Teeth.' Universita del Salento, Lecce, Italy, April 2008;
'Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter', 'African-American Literature - Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's "Recitatif"', Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, April 2007.

Membership in professional associations :

Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS)
European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
Association of Adaptation Studies (AAS)

Conferences:

American Wild Zones organised by Polish Association for American Studies in Białowieża, October 22-24, 2014. Presentation: “In America, You Are Black, Baby” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s perspective on race in her 2013 novel Americanah”
12th ESSE Conference organised by Sefarik University in Kosice, Slovakia, 29.08-2.09, 2014, Presentation: "What if Gogol was a girl? Ethnicity and gender roles in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake."
Seriale w kontekście kulturowym organised by University of Warmia and Mazury, April 7-9, 2014, Olsztyn. Presentation: ”Znacie? To obejrzyjcie. Rzecz o brytyjskich serialowych adaptacjach powieści mniej lub bardziej klasycznych.”
Podkarpackie Studia Filologiczne: Językoznawstwo, Literatura i Kultura organised by PWSTE in Jarosław, April 4, 2014. Presentation: „Middlemarch (1994) as an example of the British Classic Television Serial of the 1990s”
Eating America: Crisis, Sustenance, Sustainability organised by Polish Association for American Studies in Wrocław, October 23-25, 2013. Presentation: “An escape into “archetypal but distant worlds” – how/why do Americans in crisis still seem to draw certain sustenance from the world of British costume drama?”
Disturbing Adaptations. 8th Conference of Association of Adaptation Studies. Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, September 26-27, 2013. Presentation: Who can get disturbed by The Forsyte Saga (2002) and Brideshead Revisited (2008)?

The Subcarpathian Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture. The 3rd Rzeszów Anglistentag organized by IFA UR, April 22-23, 2013. Presentation: ‘Is there anything to enjoy about the ‘ossified museum version of British national past’? British costume drama and the heritage debate.”

Visible and Invisible Authorship. 7. Conference of Association of Adaptation Studies. University of York. York, Great Britain, September 27-28, 2012. Presentation: "Authorship (Re)claimed – Director’s Commentary in Special Features of DVD editions as a way to Claim or Reclaim the Authorship in Selected Film and Television Adaptations"

American Experience – the Experience of America organised by Polish Association for American Studies in Gdańsk, October 19-21, 2011. Presentation: “’I have already spelled my name five times’ - Bengali-American Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and in Mira Nair’s film adaptation of the novel.”
Peryferia literatury, kultury i języka organised by Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Techniczno-Ekonomicznaj im. Ks. B. Markiewicza in Jarosław, March 3-4, 2011. Presentation: „Co się stało z Fanny Price? Mansfield Park Patricii Rozemy jako przykład adaptacji twórczej”

Kierunki Badawcze Filologii na Podkarpaciu: Język – Kultura - Literatura organised by Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa im. ks. Bronisława Markiewicza w Jarosławiu, April 14-15, 2010r. Presentation: „Wśród Panów Darcych i Thorntonów - czyli o wartości telewizyjnych adaptacji powieści brytyjskich”
Galicia English Teachings: Old Pitfalls, Changing Attitudes and New Vistas. The Second Rzeszów Anglistentag. Rzeszów, March 9-10, 2009, organized by IFA UR. Presentation: “Trying to Make the Magic Work - Confessions of a Literature Teacher”
(Mis)Reading America. American Dreams, Fictions and Illusions organised by Polish Association for American Studies in Puławy, October 21-23, 2009. Presentation: “Misread Americana - Representation of Americans in a British crime drama Inspector Morse”

The Past in the Present: The American Uses of History, organised by Polish Association for American Studies, Warsaw, 22-24.10.2008. Title of the presentation: "The Past Claws Its Way Back - on the Use of Personal and National History in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Love"
Language, Literature, Culture and Beyond: The First Rzeszów Anglistentag, 22-23.10.2007, organized by the University of Rzeszow. Title of the presentation: "From Pecola to Junior - Black Female Child as the Other in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Sula and Love"
Conformity and Resistance in America organised by Polish Association for American Studies, Kamień Śląski 23-25.10.2005. Title of the presentation: "Nonconformity Will Be Her Epitaph - Susan Sontag and Her Controversial Self"
The Natural and the Artificial, organised by Polish Association for American Studies, Poznań, October 2003. Title of the presentation: "Glimpses of the Natural and the Artificial in John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In Search of America"

Co-editing:

Studia Anglica Resoviensia 11, Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, Zeszyt 85/2014.
Podkarpackie Forum Filologiczne (2014), Malinowska, M., Rokosz-Piejko E.(eds), Seria: Literatura i Kultura, Jarosław, Wydawnictwo PWSTE,
The Subcarpathian Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture. Vol. 2 “Literature and Culture” (2014), M. Martynuska, B. Niedziela, E. Rokosz-Piejko, (eds) Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. s. 265.
The Subcarpathian Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture. Vol. 2 “Literature and Culture” (2014), M. Martynuska, B. Niedziela, E. Rokosz-Piejko, (eds) Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. s. 265.
Galicia Studies in Linguistics, Literature and Culture; The Students’ Voices 2 (2014), G.A. Kleparski, B. Kopecka, M. Martynuska, E. Rokosz-Piejko, (eds) Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. s. 195.
Galicia Studies in Linguistics, Literature and Culture; The Students’ Voices (2013), G.A. Kleparski, M. Martynuska, E. Rokosz-Piejko, (eds) Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. s. 194.
Language, Literature, Culture and Beyond (2008) R. Kiełtyka, D. Osuchowska, E. Rokosz-Piejko (eds), Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. s. 296.
Galicia English Teachings: Old Pitfalls, Changing Attitudes and New Vistas, (2009) G.A. Kleparski, E. Rokosz-Piejko, A. Uberman (eds) Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. s. 249.