Degrees
Ph.D. - 2021 - Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (Writing the Space of Flows. Representations of the Globalized World in Post-Millennial American and Canadian Fiction)
M.A. – 2009 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (English Studies)
Diploma in Literary Translation – 2009 – UNESCO Chair for Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication, Jagiellonian University, Cracow
M.A. – 2010 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (American Studies)
Fellowships
2012 – Canada Grant, JFK Institute, Free University, Berlin
Selected publications
"'Strach przed ideami jest niemaerykański' - Dave Eggers, współczesny literacki wichrzyciel." Dave Eggers. Ed. Julia Nikiel. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2023, str. 7-14.
Dave Eggers. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytety Warszawskiego, 2023.
It Takes a Storyteller To Know a Storyteller: Global Capitalism in Post-Millennial North American Fiction. Brill, 2023.
"Narrating the New Age of EXtREmes." EXtREme 21 Going Beyond in Post-Millennial North American Literature and Culture," edited by Izabella Kimak and Julia Nikiel, special issue of Polish Journal for American Studies, vol. 15, 2021, pp. 211-216.
"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, no. 67 (2019). 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. Frankfurt am Main: 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. Eds. Izabella Kimak and Julia Nikiel. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017. 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, no. 64 (2016): 185-194.
„Time-space and the global network of virtually controlled ambiguity in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy.” Historia-Kultura-Globalizacja 19 (2016): 157-166.
„Drowning in Rikki Ducornet’s The Fountains of Neptune.” Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 2:2 (2015): 19-33.
„Elemental.” The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Red. Jeffrey A. Weinstock. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 2014. 205-208.
„Globalność fabularyzowana. Literatura współczesna w świetle rzeczywistości późnego kapitalizmu.” Historia-Kultura-Globalizacja 13 (2013): 69-80.
„The Centrifugal Age: Literary Movements of Avant Pop, Slipstream and Bizarro.” Esthetic Experiments. Interdisciplinary Challenges In American Studies. Ed: Edyta Just, Marek M. Wojtaszek. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 89-104.
„Bizarro. ‘Porąbany’ gatunek literackiego outsidera.” Inne bębny. Różnica i niezgoda w literaturze i kulturze amerykańskiej. Eds. Ewa Antoszek, Katarzyna Czerwiec-Dykiel and Izabella Kimak. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS. 2013.93-109.
Membership in scholarly societies
Polish Association for American Studies
International Association for American Studies
Inne
co-initiator and co-coordinator of the ExRe(y) project
