Biography and education
M.A. in German, University of Warsaw
Ph.D. in German Literature and Translation Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. in German Literature and Translation Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Siwak, E. (2025). A Dissonant Unity at Two Habsburg-Era Expositions: Vienna (1873) and Lviv (1894). Zeitschrift Für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies, 72(2), 177–214. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.25627/202574211664
- Siwak, E. (2024, November). Review of Martin Rohde. Nationale Wissenschaft zwischen zwei Imperien: Die Ševčenko-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 1892–1918. Harvard Ukrainian Studies. Cambridge, MA, US: Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Retrieved from https://husj.harvard.edu/book-reviews/nationale-wissenschaft-zwischen-zwei-imperien-die-sevcenko-gesellschaft-der-wissenschaften-18921918-wiener-galizien-studien
- Siwak, E. (2024). Philip Boehm Revisits “Malina.” Austrian Studies, Reading Bachmann Now(32), 120–135. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1353/aus.00009
- Hnatiuk, O. (2019). Courage and Fear (translated from the Polish by Ewa Siwak). (E. Siwak, Trans.). Brighton, MA, USA: Academic Studies Press; Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Retrieved from https://www.academicstudiespress.com/ukrainianstudies/courage-and-fear
- Siwak, E. (2018). Transparent, Fluent, and Readable: Ingeborg Bachmann’s Prose in English. Journal of Austrian Studies, 51(1), 47–73.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Golden Apple Award for Teaching, College of Liberal Arts. August 30, 2023
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Office of the President. May 30, 2023
- Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi Honor Society/University College. April 2022
- Award / Honor Recipient: Excellence in Service, College of Liberal Arts. July 12, 2019
- Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi Honor Society/University College. April 22, 2016

Featured service activities
- Chair
Project Chair, American Association of Teachers of German, South Texas Chapter
- Organizer
SPARK for German
- Other
Texas State German Contest
- Member
Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Selection Committee
- Member
Teacher Education Council
- Member
Professional Dispositions Committee