Małgorzata Martynuska is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies, University of Rzeszow, Poland. Graduate of American Studies Center at University of Warsaw (MA) and the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora at Jagiellonian University in Cracow (PhD). She completed her habilitation at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. Her scholarly interests focus on the American South, cultural hybridity of US Latinx, acculturation patterns, transculturation, tropicalism, ethnic representations in American popular culture, and American crime fiction.
Important publications:
2022: Cubanness and Americanness: Identity Negotiations in Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy by Carlos Eire. Interlitteraria, 27(2), 173-188.
2022: Intertextuality in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown.Polish Journal for American Studies, 16, 29-42.
2019: The Nostalgic Landscape of Miami in Susanna Daniel’s Stiltsville. Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, 25(2), 81-96.
2018: The Cultural Hybridity of Mexican Americans. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego.
2016: Ethnic Conflicts in Urban Landscape. Irish-American Representations in the Gangster Film Genre of 1990-2010. In E. Arapoglou, Y. Kalogeras, & J. Nyman (Eds.), Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Media: The Politics of Representation (pp. 181-198). Palgrave Macmillan.