Agnieszka Kotwasińska

Assistant Professor
Institute of the Americas and Europe

Agnieszka Kotwasińska is an assistant professor of American literature and culture at the American Studies Center, the University of Warsaw. She specializes in gothic and horror studies, science fiction studies, gender studies and queer theory, and feminist new materialism(s). Her research interests centre on embodiment in the so-called low genres, death, illness and old age in genre cinema and television. She has published articles in Somatechnics, Polish Journal of American Studies and Humanities, among others, and chapters in Monsters: A Companion (Peter Lang, 2019), The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Diffractive Reading New Materialism, Theory, Critique (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021) and Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture (Routledge, 2022). Her first monograph, House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction, was published in 2023 by University of Wales Press. She is currently working on a book about death and dying in contemporary horror cinema.