Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

Eugenia Sojka, PhD, DLitt 

Assistant Professor in the Institute of Literary Studies (the leading discipline) and the Institute of Culture Studies (the secondary discipline), the University of Silesia in Katowice

eugenia.sojka@us.edu.pl

ORCID 0000-0001-8467-1562

https://silesian.academia.edu/EugeniaSojka

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eugenia-Sojka

Research interests:

• Canadian Studies,
• Indigenous drama,
• theatre and performance,
• Indigenous and minority/diasporic literatures and cultures,
• decolonization and indigenization processes in literary and cultural discourses in Canada,
• Indigenous and minority poetics and methodologies,
• Indigenous intellectual traditions,
• Upper Silesian culture.

Recent publications:

1. Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces. Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings. Eds. Eugenia Sojka, Susan C. Pearce. Springer. Cham 2021, pp. 274. ISBN 978-3-030-63196-3.
2. Decolonizing Upper Silesia: Reclaiming and Validating the Hybridity of Silesian Culture in Contemporary Upper Silesian Literature. In: Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces. Post 1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings. Eds. Eugenia Sojka and Susan Pearce, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021, p. 169-193.
3. Mosaics of Change (with Susan Pearce). In: Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces. Post 1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings. Eds. Eugenia Sojka, Susan Pearce. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021, p. 1-13.
4. Piszący z ziemi. Teatr indygenny Floyda Favela i inne eseje. Eds. Aneta Głowacka, Eugenia Sojka. Wydawnictwo Naukowe „Śląsk”. Katowice 2021, pp. 295. ISBN 978-83-8183-811-5.
5. Floyd Favel: artysta – badacz – teoretyk. In: Piszący z ziemi. Teatr indygenny Floyda Favela i inne eseje, p. 18-60.
6. Theatre/Transfer/Transgression. Ed., special issue Er(r)go. Theory Literature Culture 2019, no 2, pp. 254.
7. Alice Munro: Reminiscence, Interpretation,  Adaptation, and Comparison. Współred. Mirosława Buchholtz. Peter Lang. Berlin 2015, pp. 1-222.

Research grants:

• Visiting Professorship grant, Faculty Exchange Program offered by Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Sept. 3^rd – Sept. 28^th  2016.
• Visiting Professorship Grant – University of the Fraser Valley, Canada, Feb. 1^st – Feb 19^th 2016.
• Faculty Enrichment Grant: International Council for Canadian Studies, 2011 and 2006.
• Faculty Research Grant: International Council for Canadian Studies (Project: “Construction and performance of Polish diasporic identities in Canada. Examination of cultural and  gender identities in literary and artistic discourses”), July-August 2002.

 Academic outreach and engagement:

Main organizer and co-ordinator of the University of Silesia and University of the Fraser Valley, Canada, international conference: “Indigenous Canadian and Upper Silesian Expressions of Culture in Storytelling, Dr.ama, Theatre and Performance – Traditional and Contemporary Perspectives”, Sosnowiec, April 26-28, 2017.

Organization of  the annual nationwide contest for high school students “Discover Canada” (since 2013) and annual Days of Canadian Culture at the University of Silesia (since 2001) – e.g. in May 8^th-May 20^th 2019 – A series of lectures and workshops by Indigenous academics and artists from Canada (Tracy Bear (U. of Alberta), Trevor Carolan (UFV), Michelle LaFlamme (UFV), Monique Mojica (playwright, theatre director, film and theatre actress).

Guest lecture: “Indigenous theatrical sovereignty. Developing Aboriginal theatre methodologies and dramaturgies in Canada.” Department of English, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada, November 28^th, 2017. Also available via Livestream: https://www2.unbc.ca/search/sojka