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In June, Ewa Ziarek, Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature, was elected a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. An internationally recognized feminist theorist and scholar of modernist literatures, Ziarek is the author of four books, the editor or co-editor of three volumes, and the author of more than 70 articles and book chapters.

Marta will be working on her postdoctoral project, “Psychoanalysis and Decoloniality: Toward a Paradoxical, Aesthetic Universality,” which builds on her dissertation's main argument about the creation in post-socialist Eastern European and decolonial Latin American scholarships of the new, paradoxical model of universality.

The UB Humanities Institute proudly announces the release of the first title in the Humanities to the Rescue book series, edited by David Castillo, Jean-Jacques Thomas, and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek.

Josh's recognition is a testimate to his committment to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students as an instructor for COL 112 Cross-cultural Explorations and COL 233 Literature and Happiness.