Klara Szmańko

I specialize in American literature and American Studies. These are the fields in which I did my M.A. in 2002 and Ph.D. in 2005 at University of Wrocław, while my habilitation at University of Łódź in 2016. I am the author of two books published in the United States of America: Invisibility in African American and Asian American Literature: A Comparative Study (McFarland 2008) and Visions of Whiteness in Selected Works of Asian American Literature (McFarland 2015). I was also the chief organizer of the twenty third Polish Association for American Studies Annual Conference in 2019: The Sound of Silence in American Literature, Culture and Politics at University of Opole, for which I procured a grant from the American Embassy. After the conference I co-edited a post-conference volume entitled Rhetoric of Silence in American Studies, published by the Res Rhetorica journal. I am a holder of four foreign scholarships: from University of North Carolina, from DAAD and twice from John F. K