Edyta Frelik

Dr. Edyta Frelik is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of American Studies, Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. Her academic career spans research and teaching in American art history, visual culture, and interdisciplinary intersections between literature and visual arts. She holds a PhD in Humanities (UMCS, 2013) and has been recognized with prestigious awards including the Terra Foundation Award (2013) and Georgia O’Keeffe Museum nomination (2018).

Her research focuses on:

• Modernist artists' intellectual engagements
• Interactions between textual and visual media
• Anti-intellectualism in American art and culture
• Gender dynamics in avant-garde practice
• Relationships between science/technology and artistic expression

Recent publications highlight her expertise in artists like Georgia O’Keeffe, Ad Reinhardt, and Frank Lloyd Wright, with thematic clusters in:

• American cultural identity formation
• Artistic self-representation strategies
• Transatlantic modernist dialogues
• Architectural language theory
• Visual epistemology
• Post-historical cultural analysis

Scientific recognitions include:

• 2013: Terra Foundation Award for Best Essay by International Scholar
• 2018: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Book Prize Nomination
• 2022: NCN MINIATURA 5 Grant

Dr. Frelik has organized international conferences like Wordstruck (2015) and actively participates in academic exchanges across Europe and North America.