Dr. Grazyna Walczak
Professor of Spanish
- Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature
University of Florida - M.A. in Spanish
University of South Florida - B.A. in German
Mexican National Autonomous University
Teaching Fields: Lower and advanced level of Spanish classes, Spanish and Hispanic Literature, Spanish and Hispanic Culture and Civilization, Graduate Spanish classes, Caribbean Literature, Hispanic Women Writers and Mexican Literature, Medical Terminology
Dr. Walczak is also actively promoting study abroad programs and cultural events that contribute to the internationalization of 福利小视频, aiming to make students’ experience at 福利小视频 more vibrant and stimulating.
Research and Publications:
Focus:
- the intersection of history, memory, and Latin American narrative, with a special interest in the representation of marginalized groups.
- Co-edited a volume, in which she also contributed a book chapter exploring narrative strategies in one of the oldest colonial texts from Mexico, “La autoridad del lenguaje y la identidad mestiza en Descripción de Tlaxcala de Diego Muñoz Camargo”. Insomne pasado. Lecturas críticas sobre Latinoamérica colonial. Eds. Claudia García, Karina E. Vázquez and Grażyna Walczak. Guatemala: F&G Editores, 2016.
- literary memory in the works of 20th and 21st century Mexican female writers.
- Solo book: Mujeres que cuentan: La memoria literaria en la narrativa de seis escritoras mexicanas del siglo XX. F&G Editores, Guatemala. 2023.
- Selected book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed academic sources:
- “Parricidio creativo en obras selectas de escritoras mexicanas del siglo XX.” Visiones del dolor y la muerte en la literatura hispánica. Valladolid: Universitas Castellae. Cultura Iberoamericana, v. 57. 2024: 173-184.
- “El mundo al revés: la parodia como medio facilitador de lo erótico en la literatura del ‘boom’ femenino.” Eros y Ágapes en la Literatura Hispánica. Valladolid: Universitas Castellae. Cultura Iberoamericana, v. 54. 2023. 109-118.
- “¿Estamos todas bien? El empoderamiento femenino por medio de la narrativa gráfica de tres autoras hispanas.” Co-authored Grażyna Walczak and Karen Acosta, PhD. Encuentros, v. 21. Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Barranquilla, Colombia. Jan 2023. 168-181.
- “La evolución de la imagen femenina en tres historias detectivescas de escritoras mexicanas.” Work and Labor in World Languages, Literatures and Film. Eds. Lehmann, Will, Margit Grieb and Yves-Antoine Clemmen. Irvine: Brown Walker Press, 2021. 59-68.
- “La violencia de género en tres novelas policiacas negras de escritoras mexicanas: Patricia Valladares, Laura Esquivel y Fernanda Melchor.” Acta Hispánica. Oct 2020. 617-625.
- “Voz para los silentes y expansión de la crónica en Zona de desastre (1986) de Cristina Pacheco”. Catástrofe y violencia. Ed. Marco Kunz. LIT Ibéricas 12. LIT Verlag, Zurich, 2017. 185-199.
- methodology of teaching a second language.
- Book chapter (co-authored): “Addressing the Needs of English Language Learners.” Co-authored Michelle Ocasio, PhD and Grażyna Walczak, PhD. Computer Based Technology for Special Needs and Multicultural Education: Enhancing 21st Century Learning. Eds. Festus Obiakor and Lenwood Gibson. New York: Plural Publishing, Inc. October, 2017. 221-239.