The Anti-Eugenics Project
Phase One: Dismantling Eugenics - A Convening, 9/27/21 - 10/2/21
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The Great Gatsby

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  • Closed Captions (Spanish)
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This presentation will use passages from Fitzgerald’s writings and the “The Great Gatsby” to show how writers and artists of the era incorporated eugenics politics and references into their work. 

Presenters

  • Dr. Ewa Barbara Luczak
    Dr. Ewa Luczak is Associate Professor and Deputy Chair at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw and President of the Polish Association for American Studies. She is the author of Mocking Eugenics: American Culture against Scientific Hatred (Routledge 2021), Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination (Palgrave 2015); How Their Living outside America Affected Five African American Authors: Toward a Theory of Expatriate Literature (2010). She is also editor and co-editor of eight other volumes that include New Cosmopolitanisms, Race and Ethnicity: Cultural Perspectives (DeGruyter, 2019). She was a Fulbright senior visiting scholar at UCLA, research scholar at the University of California Irvine (2019), University of Cambridge (2012,17,18) and Johns Hopkins University (2012-3). She was also a visiting professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China (2019, 2020) and Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse (2020).