Agata Szczeszak-Brewer
- Professor of English, John P. Collett Chair in Rhetoric
- Center Hall 205
- 765-361-6037
- brewera@wabash.edu
Agata Szczeszak-Brewer came to the United States from Poland as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar in 2002 and later completed her Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina in 2006. She is Professor of English and John P. Collett Chair in Rhetoric at Wabash College, where she teaches courses on South African Literature, Irish Literature, James Joyce, 20th-century British and Irish Literature, and Postcolonial Theory, among others. She has published two books: Empire and Pilgrimage in Conrad and Joyce (University Press of Florida, 2010) and Critical Approaches to Joseph Conrad (University of South Carolina Press, 2015). Her current book project is a comparative study of Irish and South African literatures.
Education
Ph.D., English, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 2006
M.A., English, University of Wroclaw, Poland, 2002
Recent Course Offerings
English 214–British and Irish Literature after 1900
English 397–Literary and Cultural Theory
English 340–James Joyce’s Ulysses (immersion course)
English 330–Postcolonial Literature and Theory
English 330—Studies in South African Literature (immersion course)
English 497–Senior Seminar, “South African Literature”
English 109–World Literature in Translation
English 197–Science and Speculative Fiction
English 101–Composition
English 398–Cultural Studies: The Wire
Recent Presentations
“Queer Nostromo,” International Joseph Conrad Conference. Lublin, Poland, 6/20-6/24/16.
“Stage Irish in 19th-century South African Writing,” at the American Conference for Irish Studies: University of Notre Dame, 3/30-4/3, 2016.
“a frantic spurious babble”: Writing Race in Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country, at the American Comparative Literature Association conference: Cambridge, MA, 3/16-3/20, 2016.
“Decoud, Dedalus, and the Anxiety of Patriotic Production,” at the MLA convention: Vancouver, Jan 2015.
35th LaFollette Lecture, "Itinerant Humanities: Learning from James Joyce’s Voluntary Exile" (October 3, 2014). News Story, YouTube
“Gendered National Martyrology in James Joyce’s Ulysses and Witold Gombrowicz’s Trans-Atlantyk,” at the 2014 International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies: Dublin, 6/10-6/14/2014.
“Demilitarizing gender: Drag and Disidentification in an All-male Performance of ‘Circe’,” at the 2012 International James Joyce Symposium: Dublin, 6/10-6/16/2012.
“‘A caterwaul of yearning’: Northern Ireland, Incest, and Ethnic Violence in Linda Anderson’s Blinding,” at the 2012 International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, New Orleans, 3/13-3/17/2012.
“‘That Thing’: Joyce and the (Anti-)Aesthetics of Blood,” at the XXII North American James Joyce Conference in Pasadena, CA, 6/12-6/16/2011.
“The Irish eye/I: Joyce’s Molly, Anderson’s Lucy, and Female Subjectivity,” at the “How Normative Is Molly Bloom Now?” round table, 2011 International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 3/30-4/2/2011.
“Mocking Cartography: Joyce’s ‘non-places’,” at the XXII International James Joyce Symposium, Charles University, Prague, 13/6/2010-18/6/2010.
“‘Harlequin gives me the creeps’: Conrad’s Demons, Feminine Voracity, and Colonial Exorcism,” at the MLA Convention, San Francisco, 12/27/08-12/29/08.
“Conrad’s Priapic Dance,” at the MLA Convention, San Francisco, 12/27/08-12/29/08.
“Joyce’s Vagina Dentata: Manhood, Nationhood, and Female Vampirism,” at the “Re-nascent Joyce” XXIst International
James Joyce Symposium, Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France, 6/15 – 6/20/2008.
“The Celtic Caliban: Beyond Manichaeism in Late-Colonial Literature and Visual Culture,” at the American Comparative Literature Association 2007 Conference, Puebla, Mexico, 4/18/07-4/22/07.
“Ireland, Poland, India: Against ‘pathologies of power’ and ‘goblins of sectarianism’,” at SOFEIR (Institut du Monde Anglophone) 2007 “Ireland: Going East” conference, the Sorbonne, Paris, 3/16/07-3/17/07.
“Kulturkampf, Colonialism, and