Professor Ewa Plonowska Ziarek joined the faculty of Comparative Literature in spring 2004. Professor Ziarek did her doctoral studies in the University at Buffalo's English Department.

Ewa Ziarek is Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She teaches feminist theory, modernism, continental philosophy, ethics, and critical theory. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism. (SUNY, 1995), An Ethics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity, and the Politics of Radical Democracy. (Stanford 2001); an editor of Gombrowicz's Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality, (SUNY, 1998); and a co-editor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis (forthcoming) and Intermedialities: Philosophy, Art, Politics (forthcoming). She has published numerous articles on Kristeva, Irigaray, Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Fanon and literary modernism. Currently she is working on a book devoted to feminist aesthetics.