Faculty Member, Faculty of Philology, Institute of Polish Philology
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Dr Wojciech Małecki is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Polish Philology, the University of Wrocław, Poland. His research interests include pragmatism (both classical and contemporary), literary theory, ecocriticism, posthumanism, aesthetics, popular culture, continental philosophy, philosophy of the body, and contemporary Polish and English literatures.
Wojciech is the author of Embodying Pragmatism: Richard Shusterman’s Philosophy and Literary Theory (Frankfurt am Main-New York: Peter Lang, 2010), and the editor or co-editor of three other books (including Shusterman's Pragmatism: Between Literature and Somaesthetics, Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2012 - in print). He has published numerous book chapters and articles in various peer-reviewed journals, such as The Oxford Literary Review, Angelaki; Foucault Studies; Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie; Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics; PostScript; Nordic Journal of Aesthetics; Teksty Drugie, etc. Wojciech is also on the editorial boards of the journal Pragmatism Today and the Eger Journal of English Studies.
Most recently, Wojciech was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Body, Mind, and Culture, Florida Atlantic University (January-April 2010; a fellowship from the Kosciuszko Foundation was funding his visit); a visiting research fellow at The John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University, Berlin (April-May, 2009), and at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, the University of Edinburgh (September-November, 2008). In 2010, Wojciech was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship and a Fellowship for Outstanding Young Scholars from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Some recent and forthcoming publications:
"Challenging the Taboo of the Autobiographical," forthcoming in Shusterman's Pragmatism: Between Literature and Somaesthetics, ed. Dorota Koczanowicz and Wojciech Malecki (Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2012 - in print)
"Dethroning the Dark God of Absence: On Rorty, de Man, and Unreadability," The Oxford Literary Review, vol. 33, no. 1 (2011), pp. 83-101.
"'If happiness is not the aim of politics, then what is?': Rorty versus Foucault," Foucault Studies, no. 11 (February 2011), pp. 106-125.
"Beavers, Tigers, and The Ontology of Interrelations: Or on Some Problems of Pragmatist Ecocriticism," Edukacja Etyczna, no. 2 (2011), pp. 24-31.
“Things ‘too amorphous to talk about’: Introductory remarks on pragmatism and literature,” Pragmatism Today, vol. 2, no. 2 (2011), pp. 5-9.
“What Do Thermonuclear Bombs Have To Do with Intercultural Hermeneutics?, Or on the Superiority of Dickens over Heidegger,” Human Affairs, vol. 21, no. 4 (2011), pp. 395-404.
" 'We Must Create a New Man'": Humanism, Postcolonialism, and the Polish Context, in: Polish Humanism and Communities, ed. Marcin Cienski (Warszawa: Neriton, 2010), pp. 475-496.
“Experiential Foundationalism, Linguistic Practice, and Historicity,” Human Affairs: A Postdisciplinary Journal for Humanities & Social Sciences, , no. 1 (2010), pp. 278-287.
“On Pragmatist Aesthetics, the New Literacy, and Popular Culture: A Response to Stefán Snaevarr”, The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, No. 38 (2009), pp. 56-74.
“Ascetic Priests and O’Briens: Sadism and Masochism in Rorty’s Writings,” Angelaki: The Journal of Theoretical Humanities, no. 3 (2009), pp. 101-115.
“Popular Art, Youth Culture, and Cultural Politics: A Pragmatist Perspective,” in Eva Kimminich (ed.), Utopien, Jugendkulturen und Lebens-wirklichkeiten: Ästhetische Praxis als politisches Handeln (Frakfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang GmbH, 2009), pp. 1-16.
“Borat, or Pessimism: On the Paradoxes of Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Laughter” PostScript: Essays in Film and the Humanities, no. 3 (2009), pp. 123-33.
“Toward the Aesthetics of Emancipation?: Critical Theory and the New Pragmatism” in S. Giacchetti (ed.), Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future: Critical Theory (Rome/Newark: John Cabot University Press/University of Delaware Press, 2009), pp. 265-80.
“Neopragmatism and the Problem of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Stanley Fish,” Human Affairs, no. 1 (2009), pp. 96-104.
„Von nicht-diskursiver Erfahrung zur Somästhetik: Shusterman über Dewey und Rorty," Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, no. 5 (2008), pp. 677-690.
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