Ewa Klęczaj-Siara
ORCID iD Casimir Pulaski Radom University, Department of Modern Languages, ul. Malczewskiego 20, 26-600 Radom
Poland

Ewa Klęczaj-Siara holds a PhD in American Literature from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin. She teaches American literature and culture courses at Kazimierz Pulaski University of Radom, Faculty of Philology and Pedagogy. Her research profile focuses on African American picturebooks, the rhetoric of resistance, and the representation of Black space in children’s literature. She has published extensively in her discipline, in journals such as Polish Journal for American Studies, College Literature, International Research of Children’s Literature, Res Rhetorica, Dzieciństwo Literatura i Kultura.

Important publications:

2023: The Sounds and Colours of Harlem: Sharing the Secrets of African American Urban Landscapes,  International Research in Children's Literature, 16(3), 335–348. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ircl.2023.0528

2023: „Każdy może latać” – umiejętność latania a retoryka zmiany w książkach obrazkowych Faith Ringgold i Jacqueline Woodson, Dzieciństwo, Literatura i Kultura, 5(2). https://www.journals.polon.uw.edu.pl/index.php/dlk/issue/view/97

2022: In Search of Faith Ringgold’s Picture Books, College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, Special Issue: Children, Too, Sing America, College Literature, 49(3), Summer 2022, 448-467. https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2022.0017

2022: Quilts and the rhetoric of Black resistance and joy, Res Rhetorica, 1, 2-14. https://resrhetorica.com/index.php/RR/article/view/631

2019: Protecting the spirit of the American South: Representations of New Orleans culture in contemporary children’s picturebooks, Polish Journal for American Studies, 13, Autumn 2019, 281-294. https://www.academia.edu/62690318/Protecting_the_spirit_of_the_American_South_Representations_of_New_Orleans_Culture_in_Contemporary_Children_s_Picture_Books