PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Małgorzata Myk

Małgorzata Myk (dr hab.) works at the Department of North American Literature and Culture, Lodz University. In the years 2005-2008 she studied American literature at the Department of English, University of Maine at Orono (USA). She also worked for the National Poetry Foundation (USA), where she was involved in the editorial process of the scholarly journal Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernism.

Books:

Author of the first monograph on the oeuvre of American author Leslie Scalapino Upping the Ante of the Real: Speculative Poetics of Leslie Scalapino (2019, 1st-degree Award of the Rector of Lodz University).

Edited volumes:

She co-edited the volume Theory That Matters: What Practice After Theory (2013), a special issue of the Polish Journal for American Studies 11 (2017) on technical innovation in North American poetry (both publications co-edited with Professor Kacper Bartczak (UŁ)) and a special issue of the journal Text Matters "Literary and Visual Extremities" (13/2023; co-edited with Mark Tardi, M.F.A.).

Scholarships/Awards:

(forthcoming) Recipient of the Fulbright Senior Award in the academic year 2024/2025 (University of Utah) (At the invitation of Professor Craig Dworkin, Department of English).

Recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship in the academic year 2017/2018 (UCSD) (At the invitation of Professor Michael Davidson, UCSD, Department of Literature, Professor Emeritus of American Literature, Distinguished Professor).

Other service at the Institute of English Studies (UŁ):

(2021-2023) Co-Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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

• North American literature (late 20th- and 21st-century writing)
• avant-garde and experimental women’s writing in North America (late 20th- and 21st-century writing)

Research interests:

Avant-garde and experimental writing (late 20th- and 21st-century writing):

• Language and post-Language writing (non/narrative, inter-genre and hybrid writing)
• poets associated with the Kootenay School of Writing (Vancouver, Canada)
• New Narrative
• Conceptualisms

Intersections between literature and philosophy (continental philosophy, anarchist thought, new materialisms, new realisms)

Gender and queer studies

Speculative literature

Posthumanism

Sound studies

Visual culture

Other activities and interests:

• contemporary art (I completed a post-graduate Painting and Drawing studies program at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, 2024)
• literary translation and translation theory (contemporary North American poetry translation and translation of Polish poetry into English)

Membership:

MLA (since 2024)

List of academic publications:

• Orcid: 0000-0002-9911-5259
• PBN-ID: 3937977

Poetry Translations

(forthcoming) Kevin Davies, Wybór wierszy, Poznań, Disastra Publishing, 2024 [Selected Poems of Kevin Davies]

(forthcoming) Twelve poems of Maria Cyranowicz. [in] Viscera: Eight Voices from Poland. Edited by Mark Tardi. Litmus Press, 2024.

Maria Cyranowicz, A Species of Least Concern. Claremont, CA: Toad Press, 2024. [Internation Chapbook Series, selected poems] https://veliz-books.square.site/product/a-species-of-least-concern-poems-by-maria-cyranowicz-translated-from-the-polish-by-ma-gorzata-myk/90?cs=true&cst=custom

Lisa Robertson, "Pogoda", Kraków: Lokator, 2024 [translation of "The Weather" (New Star Books, 2001)] https://lokatormedia.pl/ksiazki/pogoda/

An essay/poem and a poem sequence "Milestones" from Divya Victor's CURB (Nightboat Books, 2021). Wizje "Stany/States" 2/2023. https://magazynwizje.pl/victor-myk/

Five poems from Maria Cyranowicz’s den.presja (Mammal Foundation 2009). ANMLY (April, 2023). https://anmly.org/ap36/malgorzata-myk-translates-m...

Three poems from Maria Cyranowicz’s den.presja (Mammal Foundation 2009). AzonaL (January 2023). https://www.azonaltranslation.com/azonal-five#63b7...

Long poem translation: Leslie Scalapino, “To jedzenie i chodzenie w tym samym czasie jest nieźle powiązane” [orig. This eating and walking at the same time is associated alright, Tombouctou 1979]. Kontent (10/2022) kontent.net.pl/czytaj/22.

Five poems by Leslie Scalapino from Considering how exaggerated music is (North Point Press, 1982). Tlen Literacki (10/2022). https://tlenliteracki.pl/leslie-scalapino-piec-wie...

Two excerpts from E. Tracy Grinnell’s Hell Figures (Nightboat Books, 2016) w antologii „Odmiany Łapania Tchu: Pięć Amerykańskich Głosów,” edited by Mark Tardi (Lodz: Dom Literatury 2022): 57-72.

Maria Cyranowicz’s poem “carefully (version 2.0)” [orig. “ostrożnie (wersja 2.0)]” Modern Poetry in Translation (Spring 2022). https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/careful...

Three poems by Marii Cyranowicz. periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (April 2022). https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2022/04/ma...

Three poems from Kevin Davies's FPO (Edge Books, 2021). Wizje (1/2022). https://magazynwizje.pl/davies-myk/

Two excerpts from Lisa Robertson’s The Weather (New Star Books, 2001). Wizje (2/2021) https://magazynwizje.pl/robertson-myk/

Kevin Davies’ Apocryphon. Maly Format (December 2020) http://malyformat.com/2020/12/apokryf/

Excerpts from Leslie Scalapino’s New Time (Wesleyan, 1999). Maly Format (June 2019). http://malyformat.com/2019/06/nowy-czas/

Excerpt from Mary Fallon’s Working Hot (Sybilla Press 1989). Wakat/Notoria 1-2 (2015) http://wakat.sdk.pl/sextec/