Magdalena Zaborowska

Research Area(s):

• literary and cultural studies approaches to intersections of social space and transatlantic discourses on race, nationality, (queer) sexuality, and gender
  
• African-American literature (esp. James Baldwin)
• feminist, and critical race theory; visual culture
• post-totalitarian East-Central Europe    
  
• 20th-century immigrant literatures
• East European immigrant women writers
• Polish-Jewish studies

Current projects:

• Archiving the Invisible House: James Baldwin’s Virtual Writer’s Museum (digital humanities book and collection in progress at the UMDL)

Public Scholarship and Collaborations:

• “Chez Baldwin” online exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture/Smithsonian, Washington D.C. (forthcoming spring 2020)
• “Borderland Foundation” (culture animation and multicultural Eastern Europe NGO) in Sejny, Poland
• The James Baldwin Project: https://www.jamesbaldwinproject.org/

Award(s)

• Professor Zaborowska is the Winner of the 2009 William Sanders Scarborough Prize Award
• 2009-2010 Hunting Family Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities
• Honorable Mention, Errol Hill Award (for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies) from the American Society for Theater Research for James Baldwin's Turkish Decade

Affiliations:

Professor Zaborowska holds a joint appointment in the Departments of American Culture (AC) and Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS)