dr hab. Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis (prof. KUL)
Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych - Instytut LiteraturoznawstwaKatedra Literatury i Kultury Amerykańskiej
Stanowisko: Profesor KUL
Wypromowane prace dyplomowe
2021
Prace magisterskie
- Social Problems in American Dystopian Movies
- Echoes of Transcendentalism in the Oeuvre of Progressive Rock Group Tool
- Interactivity, Dystopia, and Morality: Applied Ethics in Dystopian Video Games
- The Phenomenon of School Shootings in American Culture
- The Analysis of Italian Foodways in American Society
- In The Eye Of The Beholder: The 18th-century British Self-portraits and the 21st-century American Selfies
- Eating Habits of Middle-class America in Sitcoms
- Searching for Nature – Contemporary American Literature of Nature
- Problems of Adolescence in American TV series
- The Influence of National Parks on American Identity: A Case of Yellowstone National Park
- African American Femininity and Motherhood in Tony Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ and ‘Jazz’
- Evil, Tragic, or Glorious? The Rendition of Warfare in Heavy Metal Songs
- The Image of an Obese Person in American Culture
2018
Prace magisterskie
- Noir Themes in James Ellroy’s L.A. Novels and Their Film Adaptations
- Character and World Creation in Romance Fanfiction in Comparison to Their Fantasy Originals
- Vampirism in literature and pop culture of English speaking countries
2016
Prace magisterskie
- Resistance in Slave Narratives
- Dehumanisation in American post-apocalyptic literature
- The Motif of Hunger in Jewish American Literature
- The Facets of Black-White Domestic Female Relations in Southern Literature.
- Reinvention of Ethnicity: a Case Study of Polish Americans in Children of Strangers, Avalon and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods
- Survival in the texts of American and British cultures.
- Serial killers in the texts of American culture
- Foodways across Literary Genres: the Functions of Food in Crime Fiction, Magic Realism, and Epic Fantasy
- Search for Place, Self and The Other - Will Barrett's Journey in Walker Percy's "The Last Gentleman" and "The Second Coming"
- Poor white girlhood in "Ellen Foster" and "Secret Life of Bees"
- Human-animal bond in American literature
- Anthropophagous diet in American literature and cinema
- Foodways and Social Identity in Children's Literature
2014
Prace licencjackie
- The mother figure in Ellen Glasgow’s "Virginia".
- A moment of death in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and it’s adaptation.
- The appetites in Ellen Glasgow's 'The Romantic Comedians'.
- Biblical imagery in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter".
- Southern Womanhood in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'
- Woman’s oppression and rebellion in “The Revolt of Mother” Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- The Old South versus the New South in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"
- The black domestic as a substitute mother in Carson McCullers’ ‘The Member of the Wedding’ and Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
- Etymology of Paul's maladjustment in Willa Cather's "Paul's Case: A Study in Temperament."
- Will Barrett as a Quixotic Character in Walker Percy's "The Last Gentleman" and "The Second Coming"
- "War of shells, shock of peace" in "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway
- The Victorian woman and the Flapper in F.S. Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs her Hair".
- Catholicism in Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer."
- The Other in "Southern Vampire Mysteries" and "True Blood"
- Thematic concerns in Ellen Glasgow's ghost short stories.
- Constructing womanhood in Katherine Anne Porter's "The jilting of Granny Weatherall"
- Antislavery discourse in Solomon Northup’s Twelve years a slave
- Ignatius Reilly as a Grotesque of Don Quixote in John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces"
2013
Prace licencjackie
- Satire on Southern Culture in Frances Newman's "The Hard-Boiled Virgin"
- Searching for Oneself in Gail Godwin's "The Odd Woman"
- Honey as a mediator in Fannie Flagg's "Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Cafe" and Sue Monk Kidd''s "The Secret Life of Bees"
- This is no land for a fairy tale: Playing with the genre in Cormac McCarthy’s “Outer Dark” and Jayne Anne Phillips’ “Bess”
- Poor White Girlhood in Southern Literature
- Twentieth Century Southern Matriarchy in Jill McCorkle's "Tending to Virginia"
- A quest for manliness in Ernest J. Gaines’ "A Lesson Before Dying"
- The Use of Satire and Black Humor in Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22”
- Civil Rights Movement and Domestic Relations in Kathryn Stockett's ''The Help''.
- Southern Womanhood in Fannie Flagg's "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café".
- The Twentieth Century Revision of Southern Womanhood in Florence King's "Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady".
2010
Prace licencjackie
- Violence and Family Dynamics in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" in Relation to The Tradition of Southern Gothic.
- The Case of Laughter in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple".
- Black Womanhood and the Value of Female Friendship in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple".
- White-Black Relations from "The Geranium" to "Judgment Day" by Flannery O'Connor
- Houses in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening".
- Narrative Voice and Southern Girlhood in "To Kill Mockingbird" and "Ellen Foster".
- Poor Whites' Existence in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird".
- White-Black Female Friendship in Ellen Douglas's "Black Cloud, White Cloud".
Prace magisterskie
- A Fallen Woman in Southern Literature.
- The Mother-daughter relationship in the literature of the White South.
- White Privileged Singlehood in Southern Literature.
- Female Self-sacrifice in the Novels of Ellen Glasgow.
- Female Friendship across the Colour Line: the Portrayal of Female Relations in a Work Place in Southern Literature and Cinematography.
- The Kentucky Tragedy in Southern Literature
- The Negro in Southern White Literature.
- Interracial love in the works of Charles W. Chesnutt
- Toni Morrison's Use of Memory.
- Deteriorated Aristocracy in the Texts of the American South.
- Growing up Black in the Jim Crow South: a Black Boy's Life in Southern Writing
- In-valid Women in Literature of the American South.
- The Influence of Patriarchy upon White Female Friendships in the Literature and Cinematography of the American South.
- "Uncle Tom's Cabin ", Slave Narratives and Plantation Tradition.
- The Paradox of Hierarchies in Mark Twain's Novels.
- White-Black Relations in Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories.