dr Marta Komsta

Position
Assistant Professor
Units
KATEDRA ANGLISTYKI I AMERYKANISTYKI
Telephone number
81 - 537 - 27 - 92
E-mail address
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Webpage
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7807-2619
Link do Bazy Wiedzy
Marta Komsta
Consultation
Winter exam session 2024

Friday, 09.02, 11-12, room 525
Wednesday, 14.02, 12-13, room 525
Online via MS Teams - dates arranged indvidually

Personal information

Scholarly interest:

utopia/dystopia in film and literature, cultural semiotics, ecocriticism



Membership:

Utopian Studies Society/Europe (USS/E) - EDI Officer

Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS)

Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE)


Funding:

  • recipient of 2021 Miniatura 5 grant (National Science Centre, Poland): "Literary Utopia and Spiritualism"
  • team member of 2021-2025 National Programme for the Development of Humanities grant “The Canon of World Utopian Literature in Polish Translation” (under the supervision of prof. Artur Blaim, University of Gdańsk)
     

Books and edited volumes:

  • Welcome to the Chemical Theatre: The Urban Chronotope in Peter Ackroyd's Fiction. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, 2015.
  • [co-editor with Justyna Galant] Strange Vistas: Perspectives on the Utopian. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 2019

Selected publications:

  • [co-author with Emrah Atasoy] "Against Anthropocentrism: A Stray’s Quest in Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness". Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2022. 
  • "Strange strangers in the mesh: Maureen F. McHugh's Uncanny Utopia". Studies in American Fiction, vol. 47, issue 2, 2020. 233-251. 

  • "'Men are Noisy creachers': Dystopian Consciousness in Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking Trilogy". Explorations of Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction. Ed. Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Joanna Klara Teske. Leiden, Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2017. 38-55.
  • "Destination - Eutopia: Nowa Huta in Polish Documentaries" (Im)perfection Subverted, Reloaded and Networked: Utopian Discourse and the Media. Ed. Barbara Klonowska, Zofia Kolbuszewska, Grzegorz Maziarczyk. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015. 125-143. 

  • "Parts Unknown: Strategies of Disappropriation in Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go." Mediated Utopias: From Literature to Cinema. Ed. Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim, Artur Blaim. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015. 247-268. 213-239.

  • Thing Without Form: Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous City.” Monstrosity from the Inside Out. Ed. Teresa Cutler-Broyles, Marko Teodorski. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014. 161-182.

  • “The Murder House, or the Archaic Mother in American Horror Story.” Expanding the Gothic Canon. Studies in Literature, Film and New Media. Ed. Anna Kędra-Kardela and Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2014. 247-268.

  • "Juliusz Machulski's Sexmission, or Paradise Regained." Imperfect Worlds and Dystopian Narratives in Contemporary Cinema. Ed. Artur Blaim and Ludmiła Gruszewska Blaim. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, 2011. 93-107.