Joanna Mąkowska

Assistant Professor
Institute of the Americas and Europe

Joanna Mąkowska is assistant professor at the University of Warsaw’s American Studies Center. Her research and teaching interests include modernist and contemporary literature, poetry and poetics, documentary and protest writing, American ecocriticism, feminist and posthumanist theories. She has published in Arizona Quarterly, Women’s Studies, Modernism/modernity, James Baldwin Review, and The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, among others. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the State University of New York at Buffalo (2017-2018), Kosciuszko Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Duquesne University (2021-2022), and a Visiting Professor at Canisius University (2024). She is currently working on the book manuscript as part of her research project “A Form of Protest: Documentary Assemblages in American Poetry,” funded by the Polish National Science Center (2024-2027). She has also received research grants from Corbridge Trust (University of Cambridge) and European Association for American Studies (Yale). A literary critic and translator, she published in Literatura na Świecie, Dwutygodnik, Czas Literatury, Twórczość and Wizje. She translated Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem (Współbycie, 2024), which was nominated for the Ossolineum Prize for the Best Translation of Poetry.