Animal Adaptations

We're absolutely thrilled to share a one-of-a-kind discovery made by Justyna Wlodarczyk 🥳

As we delve ever further into the growing corpus of book-to-film adaptations that form the basis of our research, it has become increasingly apparent that a troubling number of silent films featuring animal protagonists have not survived the passage of time. Many of these works are now classified as missing—presumed lost to nitrate decay, neglect, or the contingencies of early film history.

However, owing to Justyna's efforts, the world of silent film has regained a production long considered lost.

Read more under the link in the comments 👇

CFP alert!

One of the planned results of our project is going to be an edited volume that expands on its scope by going beyond book-to-film adaptations. The volume will be co-edited by Justyna and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck) and will be available open-access. Have a look at the CfP and contact us if you're interested in contributing.

CFP: edited volume “Animal Adaptations” — Film Adaptations of Literary Animal Characters, from the Silent Screen to Hollywood's Golden Age We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck). The volume grows out of the project “Animal Adaptations” (funded by Poland’s National Scie...

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Joanna Ziarkowska is an Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She is the author of “Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes: Biomedicalization and Embodied Resistance in Native American Literature” (2021) and the co-editor of ”In Other Words: Dialogizing Postcoloniality, Race, and Ethnicity” (2012). She has published several articles and chapters on Native American literature and medical humanities. Her recent article, “Shaping Indian biocitizens: Americanisation through medical education in the TB sanatorium paper Sioux San Sun (1938–1941),” was published in Medical Humanities.

She teaches courses on Indigenous literatures, medical humanities, and film studies at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. She does her best to provide exquisite service to her three cats – Kazia, Batman, and Łatka. She identifies as CCL (crazy cat lady).