Ewa Ziarek is the Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at The
State University of New York at Buffalo
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(SUNY Buffalo). She has a major interest in engaging with other scholars on their own terms, and believes that a model of dissensus in philosophy, rather than the traditional consensus model, may produce highly valuable results.
Education and career
Ziarek received a master's degree in English from
SUNY Buffalo in 1988, and her doctorate in philosophy from SUNY Buffalo in 1989.
After receiving her doctorate, Ziarek accepted a position as assistant professor of English at the
University of Notre Dame
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in 1989.
[ She was promoted to associate professor of English and gender studies in 1995, and to full professor of English and gender studies in 2002.][ In 2003, Ziarek left Notre Dame, and in 2004 she accepted an appointment at SUNY Buffalo as the Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature, where she remains as of 2015.][ In 2005 she founded the University of Buffalo Humanities Institute, which she remained the director of until 2008.][ In 2005, she was a visiting scholar at the ]University of Tasmania
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, in 2007 she was a visiting scholar at Maquarie University, and since 2007 she has been a Primary Visiting Faculty Member at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts at the University of Maine
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.[ Throughout her academic career, she has also served in a variety of administrative positions, such as a five-year stint as director of graduate studies in the Department of English at the ]University of Notre Dame
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between 1994 and 1999.[
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Research areas
Ziarek's research brings together literary modernism, aesthetics, ethics, feminism, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, and political philosophy. Her work addresses democracy, freedom, oppression, power structures, and intersubjectivity
In philosophy, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, intersubjectivity is the relation or intersection between people's cognitive perspectives.
Definition
is a term coined by social scientists to refer to a variety of types of human interac ...
in relation to literary modernism
Literary modernism, or modernist literature, originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction writing. Modernism experimented ...
. Ziarek has written extensively on the idea of slavery from a feminist standpoint, challenging Giorgio Agamben's views on the subject.[
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Publications
*2013: ''Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism''
*2001: ''An Ethics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity, and the Politics of Radical Democracy''
*1995: ''The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism''
Ewa Ziarek has also edited three volumes and contributed many book chapters, as well as publishing many peer-reviewed papers on far-ranging subjects.[
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See also
*Feminist ethics
Feminist ethics is an approach to ethics that builds on the belief that traditionally ethical theorizing has undervalued and/or underappreciated women's moral experience, which is largely male-dominated, and it therefore chooses to reimagine ethi ...
*Modernist literature
Literary modernism, or modernist literature, originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction writing. Modernism experimented ...
*Narrative theory
A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional ( memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). Nar ...
External links
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek Papers
– Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University
References
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American feminists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University at Buffalo alumni
University at Buffalo faculty