Department of English

Anastasia Ulanowicz’s research is primarily focused on the representation of intergenerational relationships and memory in children’s literature and graphic narratives. Her first book, Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature: Ghost Images (Routledge, 2013) received the Children’s Literature Association Book Award in 2015. She is the co-editor (with Manisha Basu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) of The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger (Palgrave, 2018), which includes her essay on representations of embodied memory and childhood games in Oksana Zabushko’s The Museum of Abandoned Secrets. Her recent scholarly collection, Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature (co-edited with Mateusz Świetlicki, University of Wrocław) has just been published by Routledge.

Ulanowicz was a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Wrocław, Poland in 2021, and returned to Wrocław in 2025 as a Fulbright Scholar. She is currently completing a monograph entitled Through Western Eyes: Representations of Eastern Europe in Western Comics, 1989-2022. She is the editor of ImageTexT, a journal of interdisciplinary comics studies, as well as the book reviews co-editor of The Lion and the Unicorn. Her most recent essays appear in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, International Research in Children’s Literature, Filotkenos, and the European Journal of American Studies. She is a member of the Children’s Literature Association, the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Ulanowicz is an affiliate faculty member of UF’s Center for European Studies, in which she teaches a course on Ukrainian literature. She also teaches under/graduate courses in the department on the topics of children’s literature, comics/visual rhetoric, memory studies, trauma theory, and the Bible as literature. She has served as the department’s Associate Graduate Coordinator (AGC) and Director of Graduate Student Teaching (DGST) and remains invested in mentoring graduate student instructors on the academic and alt-ac job market.