PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Justyna Fruzińska

Justyna Fruzińska holds an MA in American Literature and a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Lodz, Poland, where she holds the position of Assistant professor and teaches American literature, culture and history. Her publications include Nineteenth-Century Visions of Race: British Travel Writing about America (2022) and Emerson Goes to the Movies: Individualism in Walt Disney Company's Post-1989 Animated Films (2014) as well as numerous articles on travel writing, American popular culture, Transcendentalism, and Polish poetry. She is a graduate of the Institute of Jewish Studies Paideia in Stockholm as well as a member of the Association for Cultural Studies and Polish Association for American Studies.

• travel writing
• America in the 19th century
• Transcendentalism
• Romanticism
• popular culture
• animated film

Academic cooperation with the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw (2013-2017). Courses taught:

• Academic Writing
• American Literature
• American Values in Disney Animated Films

Study visits and guest lectures

• 2019 - "So far and yet so close: Depiction of otherness in Disney animated films" - guest lecture at the University of Warsaw.
• 2018 - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany (Erasmus lectures)
• 2018 - Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium (Erasmus lectures)
• 2016 - "Faces of presidential campaigns. The history of election posters in the USA", lecture at J. Kasprowicz Secondary School in Kutno
• 2016 - Corbridge Trust scholarship at the University of Cambridge
• 2015 - library fellowship at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin
• 2015 - Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italy (lectures within the framework of the Erasmus program)