https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Rafal-Madeja<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nEducation:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n2023<\/strong> \u2013 Ph.D. in humanities in the discipline of literary studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Dissertation Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Storytelling as a Transmission Mechanism of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge of Northwest Coast First Nations.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n2010<\/strong> \u2013 M.A. in English, University of Silesia in Katowice, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures.<\/span><\/p>\nResearch interests: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nCanadian studies, storytelling, narrative, indigenous ecological knowledge of the Northwest Coast First Nations, indigenous cultural protocols, animism, onto-epistemologies, relationality, indigenous methodologies, pattern literacy, kota, indigenization, ecocriticism, artistic expression of indigenous cultures in Upper Silesia, game localization<\/span><\/p>\nSelected publications:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n- \u201cKota String Figures: A Source of Indigenous Onto-Epistemologies within a Transcultural Realm of Knowledge\u201d in: Teksty Drugie. <\/em>Humanistyka Indygeniczna <\/em>[Second Texts<\/em>]. Ed. Ewa Doma\u0144ska and Eugenia Sojka. Instytut Bada\u0144 Literackich PAN, 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cStorytelling as a transmission mechanism of Indigenous ecological knowledge of Canada\u2019s First Nations\u201d in: Nitaski masinihkawin. <\/em>Pisz\u0105cy z ziemi. Teatr rdzenny Floyda Favela i inne eseje<\/em> [Writing from the Land. <\/em>The Indigenous Theatre of Floyd Favel and Other Essays<\/em>]. Ed. Prof. Eugenia Sojka and Aneta G\u0142owacka. Wydawnictwo Naukowe \u201c\u015al\u0105sk\u201d, 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cA Loop of String: Storytelling Across Language Barriers\u201d w: Ties and Knots. Bridges between Lands and Cultures<\/em>. Ed Ewa Borkowska, Tomasz Kalaga, A. Po\u015bpiech, Cambridge Publishing Scholars, 2016.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cLooking Back, Thinking Forward\u201d in: Canadian Literature No 226: Emerging Scholars. <\/em> Laura Moss. Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2015.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cA Floating Homeland: (De)Constructing Canadianness from the Insider-Outsider Perspective of Japanese-Canadians\u201d w: Romanica Silesiana 2015, No 10: Insularia<\/em> (2015). Krzysztof Jarosz. Wyd. Uniwersytetu \u015al\u0105skiego, Katowice, 2015.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Edited journals:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n- Justyna Jajszczok, Rafa\u0142 Madeja, eds. 2026. Romanica Silesiana<\/em>, issue 30 (2\/2026) \u201cHealing, Well-Being, and Care \u2013 Canadian perspectives\u201d. University of Silesia Press.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Research grants:<\/span><\/h5>\n\n- Indigenous Theatre Workshop<\/strong> \u2014 research grant, Miyawata Culture Arts Inc., Poundmaker Cree Nation Reserve, Saskatchewan, Canada. Supervisors: Dr Eugenia Sojka and Dr Floyd Favel, 13-31 July 2018.<\/span><\/li>\n
- ICCS Graduate Student Scholarship<\/strong> \u2014 research grant, International Council for Canadian Studies, Ottawa, Canada. Research site: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Academic supervisor: Prof. Margery Fee, 11 May \u2013 28 June 2015.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cTraditional Medicine of Indigenous People in Canada\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 research project, Indigenous Health Garden of the Indigenous Research Partnerships, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 15 May \u2013 21 June 2015.<\/span><\/li>\n
- International Indigenous Leadership Gathering<\/strong> \u2014 research project, Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada. Project coordinator: St\u2019\u00e1t\u2019imc Chiefs\u2019 Council, 4-7 June 2015.<\/span><\/li>\n
- EU-Canada Study Tour and Internship Programme 2011 \u2013 \u201cThinking Canada\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 research grant awarded by the European Network for Canadian Studies and the European Commission. Project coordinator: Dr Don Sparling, 4 September \u2013 3 October 2011.<\/span><\/li>\n
- EU-Canada Study Tour and Internship Programme 2011 \u2013 \u201cThinking Canada\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 internship at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Vancouver, awarded by the European Network for Canadian Studies and the European Commission. Project coordinators: Dr Don Sparling and Dr Erin Williams, 3 October \u2013 3 December 2011.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cTranscultural Dialogues between Canada and Poland: Educating for Ethics and Diversity\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 research grant, Department of Indigenous Studies and Department of English, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada. Project coordinators: Dr Eugenia Sojka and Dr Dan McDonald, 5-28 March 2010.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Academic outreach and engagement:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n- Co-organizer of the 10th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies, Healing, Well-Being, and Care: Canadian Perspectives<\/em>. Member of the organizing committee. The Polish Association for Canadian Studies and the University of Silesia in Katowice, 17\u201319 September 2025.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Guest speaker on the radio programme Swoj\u0105 Drog\u0105<\/em> (Polskie Radio Tr\u00f3jka), discussing relations between Canada and Indigenous peoples in the context of the documentary Yintah<\/em> (2024), 24 May 2025.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Co-organizer of the Polish Cultural Festival in Vancouver, organized by the Polish community organization \u201cBelweder,\u201d Vancouver, 2021\u20132025.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Panelist, co-moderator, and interpreter at an open panel discussion on minorities, reclaiming subjectivity, and Indigenous cultures. Trans-Indigena, the University of Silesia, and the Stanis\u0142aw Wyspia\u0144ski Silesian Theatre in Katowice, 15 April 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Co-organizer of the lectures and workshops led by Floyd Favel, a Cree traditionalist, cultural activist, playwright, essayist, actor, and theatre director; Institute of Culture Studies, University of Silesia, and the Trans-Indigena research group, 1\u201315 April 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Co-organizer of the annual nationwide \u201cDiscover Canada\u201d contest for high school students since 2013. Karol Miarka High School in \u017bory and the University of Silesia, and annual Days of Canadian Culture at the University of Silesia since 2010.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Co-organizer and performer in Uncle Vanya: Adaptation of a Classic by an International and Indigenous Cast<\/em>. Poundmaker Storyteller\u2019s Festival 2018. Miyawata Culture Inc., Chief Poundmaker Centre for Peace, Parks Canada, Fort Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada, 22 July 2018.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Guest speaker on a Radio Mega Vancouver programme on storytelling, Indigenous ecological knowledge, and the ontologies, epistemologies, and worldviews of the Northwest Coast First Nations, 31 August 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
- Co-organizer of the conference Indigenous Expressions of Culture in Storytelling, Drama, Theatre, and Performance: Traditional and Contemporary Canadian and Polish Upper Silesian Perspectives<\/em>. University of Silesia and the University of the Fraser Valley, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, 26\u201328 April 2017.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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