prof. dr hab. Dominika Oramus
Department of British Culture
full professor
Room number: 3.515
Phone: +48 (22) 55-314-11
email: dominika.oramus@uw.edu.pl
Thursdays 12.00-13.30 or on-line by e-mail appointment
holidays: 19/07 - 31/08
Degrees
"M.A., University of Warsaw, 1996
Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 1999
Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw, 1999
Associate Professor, University of Warsaw, 2008"
Research interests and projects
- Contemporary British fiction:
- novel post-1970
- contemporary British short story
- 20th century novelists: James Joyce, John Fowles, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Stanisław Lem
- Poetics of Postmodernism
- metafiction
- historiographic metafiction
- mass culture in mainstream fiction
- Science fiction
- 20th century utopian and dystopian writing
- the British ‘New Wave’ in science fiction, American ‘New Wave’ of the 1970s
- cyberpunk
- science fiction and Gothic fiction
- Science versus Culture
- how notions such as “science” and “myth” were defined in European civilization in the 18th-21st centuries; how the prevailing image of the workings of the Universe was changing
- how science was depicted and scientific discourse applied in the English novel in the 20th and 21st centuries (references to relativity, quantum physics, and cybernetics in art and mass culture)
- Darwinism-related disputes in public life (concerning e.g., creationism, altruism, human aggression, sociobiology)
Selected publications
Books
Korzeniowska, A. & Szymańska, I. (Eds.). (2018). Polish Scholars on Scottish Writers. An Interpretative Collage. . Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper.
Bystydzieńska, G. & Harris, E. (Eds.). (2016). From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture. Vol. 5. . Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Anglistyki - Pracownia "Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich".
Oramus, D. (2015). Darwinowskie paradygmaty. Mit teorii ewolucji w kulturze współczesnej. . Kraków: Copernicus Center Press.
Oramus, D. (2015). Charles Darwin’s Looking Glass. The Theory of Evolution and the Life of its Author in Contemporary British Fiction and Non-Fiction. . Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Chapters
Oramus, D. (2018). 'Scotland becomes another Scotland'. The Clash of Alternate Realities un Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick. In A. Korzeniowska & I. Szymańska (Eds.). Polish Scholars on Scottish Writers. An Interpretative Collage. (pp. 164-173). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper.
Oramus, D. (2017). Science, Humanities and Formulaic Writing in Michael Crichton's Timeline and Scarlett Thomas's Our Tragic Universe. In M. Pypeć , A. Kędra-Kardela & A. Kędzierska (Eds.). Studies in English Literature and Culture. Festschrift in Honour of Professor Grażyna Bystydzieńska. (pp. 185-196). Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press.
Oramus, D. (2017). The Noble Art of Detection. Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger: Naturalist, Magus and Detective. In G. Bystydzieńska (Ed.). Gothic, Sensation, Detection. (pp. 213-226). Warszawa: Pracownia "Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich" Instytut Anglistyki UW.
Oramus, D. (2016). The Dark Side of the Equinox. Isaac Newton and Alchemy. In G. Bystydzieńska & E. Harris (Eds.). From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture. Vol. 5. (pp. 333 342). Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Anglistyki - Pracownia "Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich".
Oramus, D. (2016). Ballard, Wyndham and the English Disaster Story Tradition. In R. McGrath (Ed.). Deep Ends The J.G. Ballard Anthology 2016. (pp. 52-68). Toronto: The Terminal Press.
Oramus, D. (2015). The World of Simulacra: Ballard, Dick, Baudrillard. In R. McGrath (Ed.). Deep Ends The J.G. Ballard Anthology 2015. (pp. 27-33). Toronto: The Terminal Press.
Oramus, D. (2015). Zwierzę, człowiek, Karol Darwin. Teoria ewolucji w literaturze fantastycznej końca XX wieku. In D. Piechota , A. Trześniewska & E. Łoch (Eds.). Emancypacja zwierząt?. (pp. 189-205). Lublin: Lubelskie Towarzystwo Naukowe.
Oramus, D. (2014). War on Satelite TV in the Stories of J.G. Ballard - przedruk. In (Ed.). Deep Ends. The J.G. Ballard Anthology 2014. (pp. 101-117). : The Terminal Press.
Oramus, D. (2014). Echa konfliktu kreacjonizm-darwinizm w wybranych współczesnych powieściach science fiction. In M. Leś & P. Stasiewicz (Eds.). Motywy religijne we współczesnej fantstyce. (pp. 63-77). Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku.
Oramus, D. (2013). Gods for the Final Days. Selected Religious Systems Devised by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Philip K. Dick. In L. Drong & J. Mydla (Eds.). Fearful Symmetries: Representations of Anxiety in Cultural, Literary and Political Discourses. (pp. ). Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.
Oramus, D. (2013). In the Beginning was Darwin: History and Simulation in Thorvald Steen’s Don Carlos and Giovanni and Roger McDonald’s Mr Darwin’s Shooter. In D. Babilas & L. Krawczyk-Żywko (Eds.). We the Neo-Victorians: Perspectives on Literature and Culture. (pp. ). Warszawa: Instytut Anglistyki UW.
Articles
Oramus, D. (2016). Czarodziejska kraina Europa. KRONOS. METAFIZYKA, KULTURA, RELIGIA, 36, (pp. 273-279).
Oramus, D. (2016). Ambasadorowie. KRONOS. METAFIZYKA, KULTURA, RELIGIA, (pp. 301-308).
Oramus, D. (2016). The Uncanny Robots of Pilot Pirx: Stanisław Lem’s Tales. Interlitteraria, 21, (pp. 143-157).
Oramus, D. (2014). Two Exercises in Consilience: Anne Dillard and Kurt Vonnegut on the Galapagos Archipelago as the Archetypal Darwinian Setting. Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 23, (pp. 19-31).
Oramus, D. (2014). Echoes of the mid-19-century spiritual crisis in selected contemporary texts referencing Charles Darwin. The New Review : an International Journal of British Studies, (pp. 101-117).
Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN