Ania Spyra

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Ania Spyra

Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literatue

  • Affiliated with Gender Women and Sexuality Studies, International Studies, Peace Studies, First Year Seminar and Global and Historical Studies, Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literatue, English

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Ania Spyra is an Associate Professor of English at Butler University.

Ania Spyra grew up in a German and Polish speaking home in Upper Silesia in Southern Poland. She received her MA in Literature and Linguistics from the University of Silesia, and her PhD in English from the University of Iowa. Dr. Spyra’s research looks at the influence of migration on the language of literature. She has published articles on feminist contestations of cosmopolitanism, multilingualism and transnationalism, most recently in Studies in the Novel, Contemporary Literature and Comparative Literature. Dr. Spyra teaches a wide range of courses in Transnational and Postcolonial Literature, Translation and Creative Writing. In her commitment to Global Education, she twice directed Butler University’s Global Adventures in Liberal Arts (GALA) as well as taught short term study abroad courses in Cuba, Ireland, Scotland and Australia. 

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(317) 940-9067

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Research Interests

  • Transnational and Postcolonial Literatures and Theory
  • World Literature
  • Comparative Literature
  • Theory and Practice of Translation

Disciplines

  • English Language and Literature
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