Biography
Jolanta Drzewiecka (PhD, Arizona State University, USA) conducts research on construction of cultural, racial, and national differences and identities in discourse to advance to critical intercultural communication framework. She focuses on two areas: immigrant identity and public memories. In the first, she examines how immigrant identities are negotiated and represented in personal and media narratives. Here, she develops a theory as to how immigrants are racially incorporated through intercultural translation in ways that sustain structures of inequality. The latter area explores how public memories are shaped by and shape nationalism. She is particularly interested in how memories of ethnic violence are discursively disabled and blocked and victims rendered unrecognisable to protect fictions of the national self. Here, she combines discourse and rhetorical analyses with psychoanalytic theories.
She has published her research in journals such Communication Theory, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Media Studies in Communication, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies .
Prof. Drzewiecka recently moved to Switzerland after teaching and conducting research at Washington State University, USA. She is Academic Director of the Master's of Advanced Studies in Intercultural Communication at USI, and incoming Academic Director of the European Master's of Intercultural Communication.
COMPETENCE AREAS
- Cultural Identity
- Diversity
- Immigrants
- Intercultural Communication
- Nation
- Public Memory
- Race
- Stereotype
