Part-time Instructor

Polish and European Cinema

 

Email: zbanas@luc.edu

 

Office: Crown Center 206C

Phone: 773-508-7368

Mobile: 312-304-2217

 

Research Interests

• Polish and European Cinema
• Hollywood and Independent American Film Productions

Courses Taught

• LITR 200 - European Masterpieces
  • Polish Exile Experience 
• LITR 204 - European Film
  • History of Polish Cinema 
  • Cinema of Moral Concern 
  • Cinema of Krszytof Kieslowski
  • Cinema of Andrzej Wajda
  • Contemporary Poland in Film 
  • Contemporary Polish Cinema
  • New Wave of Czech and Polish Cinema 
• LITR 284 - International Film
  • Cinema of Roman Polanski
  • Women in Polish Cinema

Loyola Service

• Faculty reviewer and judge for the annual Undergraduate Student FORUM, a competition of papers on Central and Eastern Europe
• Polish and Polish American film screenings and discussions for Polish Student Alliance open to the public 

Service Outside Loyola

• Master of Ceremonies, opening night of the annual Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles
• Master of Ceremonies, opening night of the annual Polish Film Festival in Chicago
• Jury member of FilmHellenes Greek Film Festival, Chicago
• Press Conference Moderator, 20th Camerimage Film Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland
• Organizer and moderator of film screenings at DKF Cornelia, a Polish-language film discussion club, Chicago
• JJC American film discussion group 
• Film presentation and discussion in Chicago Public Litraries

Conference Presentations

• "Polish and Czechoslovak New Waves in Cinema" University of Texas at Austin, 2014

Education

• Sc. M. Brown University, 1982
• B.S. University of Chicago, 1981