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Kulawik, Krzysztof

FACULTY

Biography

Professor Kulawik has taught at Central Michigan University since 2001. His primary areas of teaching are Spanish American literature, history and culture, Spanish grammar and composition.

He previously spent some time in France and Spain between 1989-1992, studied in Portugal as Tempus-Erasmus (European Union) Scholarship recipient 1991-1992, studied and worked in Colombia (exchange student scholarship recipient) 1993-1996, studied and worked as teaching assistant of Spanish and Portuguese in Gainesville, Florida

He speaks Polish, English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. ​

More about Krzysztof Kulawik

  • Travestismo lingüístico: el enmascaramiento de la identidad sexual en la narrativa latinoamericana neobarroca. (Linguistic Cross-Dressing: the Disguising of Sexual Identity in Latin American Neobaroque Narrative). Frankfurt-Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2009.
  • "Espacios ba/orrosos de ayer y hoy: entrevista con Pedro Lemebel" (PDF download) ("Muddy/Blurry Spaces of Yesterday and Today: an Interview with Pedro Lemebel").. Revista Nomadias, 21(1), 2016, 177-188.
  • "Des-escribir el hombre y la mujer: la performance de la sexualidad enmascarada en algunas novelas de Mario Bellatin." ("Unwriting man and woman: the performance of masked sexuality in selected novels by Mario Bellatin"). Accepted for publication in Fiestas infinitas de máscara: actos performativos de feminidad y masculinidad en México. Eds. Claudia Gronemann and Cornelia Sieber. Fundación FONTE, University of Leipzig, 2011.
  • "Travestir para reclamar espacios: la simulación sex-/text-ual de Pedro Lemebel y Francisco Casas en la urbe chilena". (Cross-Dress to Claim Spaces: Sex-/Text-ual Simulation of Pedro Lemebel and Francisco Casas in the Chilean Metropolis.") Alpha: Revista de Artes, Letras y Filosofía. 26 (2008): 101-117.
  • "Una palabra en cada esquina: una visión queer de la ciudad posmoderna en las crónicas urbanas de Pedro Lemebel". ("A Word on Every Street Corner: a Queer Vision of the Postmodern City in the Urban Chronicles of Pedro Lemebel.") Alba de América. Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico, Vol. 25. 47-48 (2006): 429-441.
  • "Lenguaje en celo: análisis de la transgresión sexual en los poemas de Evohé de Cristina Peri Rossi" ("Language in Heat: Analysis of Sexual Transgression in the Collection of Poems Evohé by Cristina Peri Rossi.") Revista de Estudios Hispánicos . 39 (2005):129-151.
  • Ph.D in Spanish American Literature from the University of Florida, 2001
  • Master's Degree in Spanish American Literature from the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá, Colombia, 1995
  • Undergraduate Degree in Hispanic Philology and Iberian Studies from the Uniwersytet Jagiellonski in Cracow, Poland, 1994

Dr. Kulawik's research interests include Latin American literature: narrative (mainly contemporary) of Spanish Caribbean, Southern Cone and Brazil, identity theory, cultural studies (postmodern theory), discourse analysis.