Contact Information
Foreign Languages Building
M/C 173
UIUC campus mail
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Modern Polish literature
Joseph Conrad - life and works
Witold Gombrowicz - life and works
Critical theory
Emigration, exile, travel writing
Polish-Jewish relations
Education
PhD, University of Toronto
MA, BA, McGill University
Awards and Honors
Conrad Humanities Scholar, 2020-25
https://las.illinois.edu/news/2020-07-14/professors-are-named-conrad-hu…
HRI Faculty Fellow, 2017-18
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Professor, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Honors & Awards
Conrad Humanities Scholar, 2020-25
https://las.illinois.edu/news/2020-07-14/professors-are-named-conrad-hu…
HRI Faculty Fellow, 2017-18
Highlighted Publications
Gasyna, G. Z. (2011). Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise: Exilic Discourse in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz. Continuum. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472543158
Brodsky, G. W. S., & Gasyna, G. Z. (Ed.) (2016). Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self. (Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives; Vol. 25). Columbia University Press.
Gasyna, G. (2017). Andrzej Stasiuk and the Myth of the Literary Gastarbajter. In A. Walke, J. Musekamp, & N. Svobodny (Eds.), Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age: Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia (pp. 276-298). Indiana University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt20060x8.15
Gasyna, G. (2015). Tandeta (Trash): Bruno Schulz and the micropolitics of everyday life. Slavic Review, 74(4), 760-784. https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.760
Gasyna, G. Z. (2013). Between Exilic Self-Fashioning and Nostalgia of the Return: Some Thoughts on Conrad’s Polish Writings. In Szlachta’ Culture to the XXI Century, Between East and West: New Essays on Joseph Conrad’s Polishness (pp. 211-232). Columbia University Press.
Gasyna, G. Z. (2008). The Poetics of the Borderlands: Ryszard Kapuściński’s Poland. Polish Review, 53(1), 53-72.
Gasyna, G. Z. (2007). Rituals at the Limits of Literature: A New Reading of Witold Gombrowicz’s Cosmos. Sarmatian Review, 27(3), 1323-1332.
Gasyna, G. Z. (2006). Wyprawa na krańce literatury: Nowe spojrzenie na Kosmos. Kresy: Kwartalnik Literacki, 3(67), 103-111.
Gasyna, G. Z. (2002). A mind divided: The dual exile of Czesław Miłosz. Russian Literature, 52(4), 355-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3479(02)80031-X
Gasyna, G. Z. (2002). Life as Intertext: Distance, Deception and Intentionality in Marek Hlasko's Killing the Second Dog. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 44(1-2), 19-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/00085006.2002.11092299
Recent Publications
Gasyna, G. Z. (2023). The Dangerous Subject Is the Displaced Subject: Conrad’s Short Fictions: Conrad’s Short Fictions. In B. Kavanagh, G. M. T. Branny, & A. Adamowicz-Pospiech (Eds.), Conrad Without Borders: Transcultural and Transtextual Perspectives: Transcultural and Transtextual Perspectives (pp. 213-228). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350293175.ch-014
Gasyna, G. (2020). A Kind of Testament: Reading Witold Gombrowicz as a Transnational Writer. In A Companion to World Literature (pp. 1-10). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0229
Gasyna, G. Z. (2020). A Kind of Testament: Reading Witold Gombrowicz as a Transnational Writer. In K. Seigneurie (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature,: Volume 5a, 1920 to Early Twenty-First Century (pp. 2765-2774). Wiley.
Gasyna, G. Z. (2019). “Sailing towards Poland” with Joseph Conrad. Polish Review, 64(4).
Gasyna, G. Z. (2018). Form and Instability. Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference. Slavic Review, 77(4).