Julia Nikiel

ORCID: 0000-0002-5893-4477

Degrees:

Ph.D. – 2021 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University – Writing the Space of Flows. Representations of the Globalized World in Post-Millennial American and Canadian Fiction

M.A. (American Studies) – 2009 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University – Elemental Imagery in Rikki Ducornet’s “Tetralogy of Elements”

Diploma in Literary Translation – 2009 – UNESCO Chair for Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication, Jagiellonian University

M.A. (English Studies) – 2010 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University – Spontaneous (postmodernist) fission – Avant-Pop, Slipstream and Bizarro

Research interests:

theories of globalization
space and place in contemporary North-American fiction
experimental fiction
popular culture

Membership in scholarly societies:

member of the Polish Association for American Studies
member of the International Association for American Studies

Grants and fellowships:

November-December 2009 – Canada research grant at JFK Institute Library, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Major Publications:

It Takes a Storyteller To Know a Storyteller: Global Capitalism in Post-Millennial North American Fiction. Brill, 2023.
"Narrating the New Age of EXtREmes." Polish Journal for American Studies, vol. 15, Fall 2021, pp. 211-216. (with Izabella Kimak)
"Epic Fail: The Failure of the Anthropostory in Douglas Coupland’s Post-Millennial Prose." Polish Journal for American Studies, vol. 14, 2020, pp. 95-107.
"Airing The Jade Cabinet: Aerial Imagination in Rikki Ducornet’s Fourth Elemental Novel." Roczniki Humanistyczne 11: Anglica, vol. 67, 2019, pp. 109-120.
Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture. Eds. Julia Nikiel and Izabella Kimak. Peter Lang, 2019.
Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture. Eds. Izabella Kimak and Julia Nikiel. Peter Lang, 2017.
"Emotion Management and Damage Control: Navigating Global Reality in William Gibson's Bigend Trilogy." Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture, edited by Izabella Kimak and Julia Nikiel. Peter Lang, 2017, pp. 185-193.
"'[A] window into the city’s underlying fabric' – Bouncing at the Edge of the Global Metropolis in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy." Roczniki Humanistyczne 11: Anglica, vol. 64, 2016, pp. 185-194.
"Time-space and the global network of virtually controlled ambiguity in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy.” Historia-Kultura-Globalizacja, vol. 19, 2016, pp. 157-166.
"Drowning in Rikki Ducornet’s The Fountains of Neptune.” Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015, pp. 19-33.
"Elemental.” The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters, edited by Jeffrey A. Weinstock. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2014, pp. 205-208.
"Globalność fabularyzowana. Literatura współczesna w świetle rzeczywistości późnego kapitalizmu.” Historia-Kultura-Globalizacja, vol. 13, 2013, pp. 69-80.
"The Centrifugal Age: Literary Movements of Avant Pop, Slipstream and Bizarro.” Esthetic Experiments. Interdisciplinary Challenges In American Studies, edited by Edyta Just and Marek M. Wojtaszek. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 89-104.
„Bizarro. ‘Porąbany’ gatunek literackiego outsidera.” Inne bębny. Różnica i niezgoda w literaturze i kulturze amerykańskiej, edited by Ewa Antoszek et al. Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2013, pp.93-109.