Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood Assistant Professor European Languages & Literature N4032 Melville Library Stony Brook, NY 11794-3359 ikalinowskab@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood received her M.A. in English philology from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and her Ph.D. in Slavic literatures from Yale University. She specializes in Polish and Russian nineteenth-century literatures, and East-Central European cinema. She teaches courses in film studies, cultural studies, and literature. Her most recent publications include Between East and West: Polish and Russian Nineteenth-Century Travel to the Orient (University of Rochester Press, 2004).