Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice (PhD, Dr Litt, dr hab) is Assistant Professor of English at the Department of English Studies of the University of Wroclaw, Poland. In 2015 - 2019 she was Conex-Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain. She obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Wroclaw in 2005. In 2017 she published a co-edited collection titled A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture (McFarland, with Agata Zarzycka). In 2007 she published a monograph titled Melancholic Travelers: Autonomy, Hybridity and the Maternal (Peter Lang); and in 2010 co-edited the collection Interiors: Interiority/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse (Cambridge Scholars, with Sonia Front). In 2004-5 she was Fulbright scholar at University of California in Los Angeles. In 2009 she conducted research at Loyola Marymount University in California under the auspices of the Kosciuszko Foundation. In 2005 and 2006 she was the recipient of grants for young scholars from the Foundation for Polish Science. She has published papers on American literature and culture, post-colonial literatures, and opera studies, as well as translations of essays and poetry (English into Polish). Her research interests include early California literature, post-colonial literatures and theory, American literature, gender studies, and opera studies. Her most recent publication is a monograph on Joan Didion's oeuvre, California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion´s Novels: Exiled from Eden (Routledge 2019).
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