dr Marcin Kołakowski

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Academic profile:
  • Deputy Director for Research and Cooperation at the Institute of Iberian and Iberoamerican Studies
  • Member of the Faculty of Modern Languages Council at the University of Warsaw
  • Lecturer of Literary Theory and Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Narrative
  • Tutor of the "Students' Association of Comparative Literary Studies"
  • Editor-in-Chief of Acta Philologica
  • GENIA and ELAR Research Group Member 
 
Specialization: Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
 
Academic Career:
 
Marcin Kołakowski Ph.D. specializes in literary and cultural studies of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. His areas of research also include: contemporary Spanish and Latin American novel, queer and gender studies, the influence of new technologies and new media on the novel genre and theory of architecture and its relations with literary theory. He has a Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies of the Western Culture (Studia Filologiczno-Kulturoznawcze) from the University of Warsaw, where he specialized in the literature and culture of the French, Spanish and German-speaking countries. At the University of Granada  (Spain) he completed a doctoral programme in literary theory and comparative literary studies and holds an international Ph.D. (cotutelle) of the University of Warsaw and the University of Granada (Doktor Nauk Humanistycznych and Doctor por la Universidad de Granada, respectively). His thesis entitled "Architecture of the Contemporary Spanish Novel: 2006 - 2014" was focused on the poetics of contemporary prose in Spain. His present line of research includes the representation of social exclusion in literature and the study of Argentinian and Cuban narrative.  
 
Research areas:
  • Narratology and Literary Theory
  • Contemporary Novel
  • History and Theory of the Novel Genre
  • Queer Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Affect Theory
  • Theory of Architecture
Office hours: Wednesdays 10.30-11.30
 
 
Academic profiles: ORCID, Academia.edu
 
Courses:
 
Organization and Co-Organization of International Academic Events:
International Association Memberships:
  • Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH)
  • Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC)
  • Asociación Polaca de Hispanistas (PSH)
Scholarships and awards:
Research Projects:
  • 2018 – 2019 - participation in the international project "New technologies in scientific and didactic activity and academic English" carried out at the Department of Modern Languages ​​of the University of Warsaw, co-financed by the European Union from the European Social Fund under the Operational Program Knowledge Education Development 2014-2020 (POWR .03.04.00-IP.08-00-PKD/16). The project was aimed to develop new competences of the scientific and didactic staff in the field of ​​new technologies in science and didactics as well as in the field of academic English language.
  • 2011 – 2012 - member of the Polish translation section within the framework of the international project TRAD–TALENS (Proyecto de Innovación Docente de la Universidad de Granada 11-254) directed by Joëlle Guatelli-Tedeschi Ph.D. at the University of Granada.
Publications:
 
Articles and chapters
Academic Reviews
Monograph Editor
Collaboration with scientific journals
  • Peer reviews for Moderna Sprak, Politeja and Estudios Hispánicos scientific journals
Novel and short story reviews: