Małgorzata Myk is an Assistant Professor at the Department of North American Literature and Culture. She defended her doctoral dissertation in 2004 at Lodz University (Dissertation title: Contemporary Violence as Spectacle: Violence and Hyperreality in the Works of Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis, and Stephen Wright). In the years 2005-2008 she studied American literature and gender studies at the Department of English, University of Maine at Orono, Maine. She also worked for the National Poetry Foundation (University of Maine) as an Editorial Assistant of the scholarly journal Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernism. She is the author of numerous publications in Poland and abroad, including the monograph Upping the Ante of the Real: Speculative Poetics of Leslie Scalapino (Peter Lang, 2019). She also co-edited a volume of essays Theory That Matters: What Practice After Theory (Cambridge Scholars 2013) and the special issue of Polish Journal for American Studies 11 (Autumn 2017) on technical innovation in North American poetry (both publications co-edited with Professor Kacper Bartczak). She is a member of Contemporary Women’s Writing Association (CWWA). The recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship 2017/2018 (UCSD).

Academic interests:

  • women’s avant-garde and experimental writing in North America (avant-gardes, authors associated with Language & post-Language writing, New Narrative, non/narrative, inter-genre writing)
  • feminist philosophy and gender studies
  • literary representations of utopia
  • posthumanism in North American literature
  • intersections between literature and philosophy (postcontinental philosophy and new realisms: Maurizio Ferraris, François Laruelle, Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism, Catherine Malabou’s concept of neuro-literature, Gilles Deleuze’s concept of minor literature)

Orcid/PBN profile

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9911-5259

PBN-ID: 3937977

Education 

2008—M.A. Degree, University of Maine (USA)

Thesis/dissertation supervision 

Academic supervisor of B.A. and M.A. theses devoted to the following research areas: 

  • representations of violence in contemporary American literature and film 
  • American literature after 1970 
  • avant-garde and experimental women’s writing in the U.S. (20th- and 21st-century writing)