Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis

dr hab. Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis (prof. KUL)

Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych - Instytut Literaturoznawstwa
Katedra Literatury i Kultury Amerykańskiej

Stanowisko: Profesor KUL

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.