Agnieszka Jezyk

Agnieszka Jeżyk earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago for her thesis on the excessive matter in Bruno Jasieński’s poems. She is working on a manuscript discussing marginal subjectivities in the 1920s Polish avant-garde poetry. Her other project focuses on the representations of deadly technologies in various Central European avant-garde works. Agnieszka Jeżyk’s research interests also include critical theory with an emphasis on psychoanalysis, Slavic horror, material culture in Cold War Central Europe, and European avant-gardes. She worked at the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Toronto. Agnieszka Jeżyk is currently appointed as Assistant Professor of Polish Studies at the Slavic Department of the University of Washington, Seattle.