Part-Time Instructor

Polish and European Literature

 

Email: jhutchens@luc.edu 

 

Office:  Crown Center 206c

Phone:  773-508-7368 

 

Research Interests:

• Polish Language, Literature, and Culture
• Gender Studies
• Queer Theory
• Nationalism Studies
• Popular Culture

Courses Taught:

• LITR 280 World Masterpieces: Eyewitness Literature of WWII
• LITR 280 World Masterpieces: Polish Short Stories 

Publications:

• “Julian Stryjkowski: Polish, Jewish, Queer,” Forthcoming in Canadian Slavonic Papers, Spring 2019.

• “Marian Pankowski: Rudolf’s Anti-Nationalist, Anti-Martyrological Project,” Toronto Slavic Quarterly 60, 2017.

• “Transgressions: Palimpsest and the Destruction of Gender and National Borders in Olga Tokarczuk's Dom Dzienny, Dom Nocny.” The Effect of Palimpsest. ed. Bożena Shallcross. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2011.

• “Translating the Queer Voice: Problems with Polish Translations of Ginsberg’s ‘America’ and ‘Message.’” Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 40.6, December 2007.

Service Outside Loyola:

• Richland Community College Diversity Committee Member
• Public Lecture: "Polish Masculinities: Gombrowicz's Satire of Polish Nationalism and Constructions of Manhood." Presented as Part of "Getting to Know Europe: a Study in Gender Roles." University of Florida Harn Museum of Art, 2014.

Education:

• PH.D. 2016 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• M.A.  2004 Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
• B.A.  1996 Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas