dr hab. Małgorzata Myk

Małgorzata Myk is an Associate Professor at the Department of North American Literature and Culture, Lodz University. In the years 2005-2008 she studied American literature and gender studies at the Department of English, University of Maine at Orono. 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 publications in Poland and abroad, including the monograph Upping the Ante of the Real: Speculative Poetics of Leslie Scalapino (2019, Award of the Rector of Lodz University). She co-edited a volume of essays Theory That Matters: What Practice After Theory (2013) and the special issue of Polish Journal for American Studies 11 (2017) on technical innovation in North American poetry (both publications co-edited with Professor Kacper Bartczak (UŁ)). She is a member of Contemporary Women’s Writing Association (CWWA). The recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship 2017/2018 (UCSD).

Research interests:

  • avant-garde and experimental writing (Language and post-Language writing, Kootenay School of Writing, New Narrative, non/narrative, inter-genre writing)
  • intersections between literature and philosophy: feminist philosophy, postcontinental philosophy and new realisms (Maurizio Ferraris, François Laruelle, Quentin Meillassoux), Catherine Malabou’s concept of “neuro-literature”, Gilles Deleuze’s concept of “minor literature”, anarchist thought in literature)
  • gender and queer studies
  • speculative literature
  • posthumanism

Orcid: 0000-0002-9911-5259

PBN-ID: 3937977

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)