dr Ewelina Bańka

Place in Native American Culture And Literature: Simon J. Ortiz's Woven Stone, Joy Harjo's How We Became Humans, N. Scott Momaday's In the Presence of the Sun.
Obsession as the Primary Motif in the Life and Work of Patricia Highsmith
The Motif of the Road in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction
The Aesthetics of Serial Killing and Serial Killers in American Literature
The Role of Place in the American Southwestern Women's Literature
Investigation as a Struggle of Reason and Emotions in Detective Fiction of American Romanticism.
Documenting Chicano Borderland Experience in the Works of Louis Alberto Urrea
Psychological Thriller and Its Film Adaptations

Madness in America of the 1950s and 1960s in the Works of Ken Kesey, Sylvia Plath and Susanna Kaysen

The Death of the Myth of the Old West on the Basis of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy.
The Construction of Identity in Contemporary Caribbean-American Fiction
Representations of the Black Female Body in the Works of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Gayl Jones.
In Search of America: The Journey Motif in John Steinbeck’s Fiction
The Socio-cultural Landscape of America in the Post-World War I American Fiction.
Challenging the Borders: Towards the Construction of a Postbellum Mindset in the Works of Harper Lee, William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor