Professor Dorota Filipczak In Memoriam

IF 0.2 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI:10.18778/2083-2931.11.01

A. Jasper

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The plan had been that we would meet in Autumn 2020 at the biennial conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture1 in Chester, close to the English/Welsh border. I was excited because Dorota had promised to present a paper on Ariana Grande and her 2018 music video, “God Is a Woman.”2 Of course, the conference was then postponed because of COVID-19, and, sadly, we never met in person again. And yet, as an academic, she has given me the means to “keep company” with her, through memories of course but also, wonderfully, through her scholarly publications. In 2019, when we first spoke about Ariana Grande, Dorota was at work on another article for the Text Matters journal (“Made to Connive”), addressing the influence of popular culture on women, adding to her existing work on the theme. She had long been interested in the impact of popular cultural forms and, particularly, the impact of western tropes in post-Soviet Poland. Growing up in Poland under a communist government, she welcomed new possibilities when they came—not least, the personal and professional rewards of building friendship networks and travelling across former boundaries. At the same time, she was also aware of the potential for sexism and misogyny to insinuate their way back into seemingly liberated lives, “now that we are inundated with the icons of American mass culture, and Polish glossies for ladies are marketing the woman as a product” (“Autonomy and Female Spirituality” 213). As she said:

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纪念多洛塔·菲利普扎克教授

按照计划，我们将于2020年秋季在靠近英格兰和威尔士边境的切斯特举行的国际宗教、文学和文化协会两年一次的会议上见面。我很兴奋，因为多洛塔承诺要发表一篇关于爱莉安娜·格兰德(Ariana Grande)和她2018年的音乐录影带《上帝是女人》(God Is a Woman)的论文。当然，由于新冠肺炎疫情，会议被推迟了，遗憾的是，我们再也没有见过面。然而，作为一名学者，她给了我与她“相伴”的方式，当然是通过回忆，但奇妙的是，通过她的学术出版物。2019年，当我们第一次谈到爱莉安娜·格兰德时，多洛塔正在为《文本问题》杂志撰写另一篇文章(《制造纵容》)，讨论流行文化对女性的影响，这是她在现有主题工作的基础上的补充。长期以来，她一直对流行文化形式的影响感兴趣，尤其是西方比喻对后苏联波兰的影响。在共产主义政府统治下的波兰长大，她欢迎新的可能性，尤其是建立友谊网络和跨越旧边界的个人和职业回报。与此同时，她也意识到性别歧视和厌女症有可能悄悄回到看似解放的生活中，“现在我们被美国大众文化的偶像淹没了，女士用的波兰光泽剂正在把女性作为一种产品进行营销”(“自主性和女性灵性”213)。正如她所说:

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM-

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23 weeks

期刊介绍： Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, based at the University of Łódź, is an international and interdisciplinary journal, which seeks to engage in contemporary debates in the humanities by inviting contributions from literary and cultural studies intersecting with literary theory, gender studies, history, philosophy, and religion. The journal focuses on textual realities, but contributions related to art, music, film and media studies addressing the text are also invited. Submissions in English should relate to the key issues delineated in calls for articles which will be placed on the website in advance. The journal also features reviews of recently published books, and interviews with writers and scholars eminent in the areas addressed in Text Matters. Responses to the articles are more than welcome so as to make the journal a forum of lively academic debate. Though Text Matters derives its identity from a particular region, central Poland in its geographic position between western and eastern Europe, its intercontinental advisory board of associate editors and internationally renowned scholars makes it possible to connect diverse interpretative perspectives stemming from culturally specific locations. Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture is prepared by academics from the Institute of English Studies with considerable assistance from the Institute of Polish Studies and German Philology at the University of Łódź. The journal is printed by Łódź University Press with financial support from the Head of the Institute of English Studies. It is distributed electronically by Sciendo. Its digital version published by Sciendo is the version of record. Contributions to Text Matters are peer reviewed (double-blind review).