Dr. Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska is a researcher and a lecturer at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University, in 2009. Her research interests comprise a variety of topics concerning youth studies, girlhood studies, literature, popular culture, gender representations, and the fantastic. Dr. Stasiewicz has been a holder of several scholarships and grants: Dagmar and Nils William Olsson Fellowship (Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., USA), J.F. Kennedy Library Grant (Freie Universität, Berlin) and Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. She participated in the international research projects “Letting the Wrong One In: Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture” (2014-2017); “Approaching War: Childhood, Culture and the First World War” (2011-2016) (Leverhulme Trust) and “Negotiating Cultural Differences in the Digital Communication Era” (The Polish National Science Centre; HARMONIA Grant). She has been granted twice the Swedish Institute Scholarship within the Visby Programme for research work at the Växjö University and The House of Emigrants (2007) and at the Lund University, Sweden (2014-2015).
Her recent works comprise Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture: Letting the Wrong One In (Palgrave Macmillan 2017; co-editor and the author of a chapter); “Lustful Ladies, She-Demons and Good Little Girls: Female Agency and Desire in the Universes of Sookie Stackhouse” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Special Issue: “As If: Women in Genres of the Fantastic, Cross-Platform Entertainments and Transmedia Engagements” (33.2, 2019) ; “Exotic Otherlands, Headquarters of Death: Sub-tropical Land- and Cityscapes in The Southern Vampire Mysteries” eTropic 16.1 (2017) and a chapter in Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War (Routledge 2016).
Dr. Stasiewicz is a member of International Research Society for Children's Literature. She speaks fluent English and Swedish.
Functions:
- coordination of Visiting Professors
- Jagiellonian University Administrator of the global exchange program for students and researchers EU-AU ICI-ECP Project BORDER CROSSINGS: PEOPLE AND PLACES
- Jagiellonian University Coordinator of the study tour to the USA “Religion in American Society” 2015, jointly organized by the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora and the Institute for American Studies of University of Leipzig, Germany.
- Academic interests:
- Youth Studies (particularly popular literature for young adults)
- Girlhood Studies, Gender Representations
- American Popular Culture
- Monstrosity and Otherness
Academic interests:
- Youth Studies (particularly popular literature for young adults)
- Girlhood Studies, Gender Representations
- American Popular Culture
- Monstrosity and Otherness