Katarzyna Koza

Katarzyna Koza is an academic researcher and doctoral candidate at the University of Wrocław's Institute of Polish Philology, Faculty of Philology. She works as an assistant in the Department of Polish Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries, where she is completing her doctoral dissertation on the languages of contemporary ecopoetry under the supervision of Professor Joanna Orska and Dr. hab. Wojciech Małecki.

Her educational background includes a Master's degree in Polish Philology from the University of Wrocław, with a specialization in literary criticism and editing. Her master's thesis focused on an ecopoetic reading of Urszula Zajączkowska's poetry, establishing the foundation for her ongoing research trajectory.

Katarzyna Koza's research primarily centers on ecological humanities and posthumanism, with particular emphasis on ecocriticism, ecopoetics, and ecofeminism. Her scholarly work explores the intricate relationships between humans and non-human entities, examining how contemporary literature represents nature, ecological crises, and environmental thought. She has also developed expertise in typography, bridging the gap between textual presentation and ecological consciousness. Her publications demonstrate a consistent focus on ecological literary theory, with particular attention to Polish authors like Urszula Zajączkowska and Wisława Szymborska.

Her scholarly output reveals a progression from analyzing specific authors and works toward developing broader theoretical frameworks in ecopoetics. Her publications span theoretical explorations of mimetic and post-Mortonian theories, sympoietic readings of contemporary poetry, and analyses of plant and animal representations in literature. She frequently examines how language mediates our relationship with the natural world, investigating concepts like sand theory, tree symbolism, and the translation of non-human experiences into human language.

• Mimetic and post-Mortonian theories classification (2024)
• Sympoietyczna reading of Julia Fiedorczuk's poetry (2023)
• Analysis of Urszula Zajączkowska's sand theory (2021)
• Tree symbolism in Zajączkowska's work (2020)
• Human-animal relationships in Szymborska's poetry (2018)

Katarzyna Koza has established a robust publication record in respected academic venues including 'Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo,' 'Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica,' and 'Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich.' Her critical reviews of significant works in ecological thought demonstrate her engagement with international scholarly discourse while maintaining a focus on Polish literary context. Her work contributes significantly to advancing ecological literary criticism within Polish academia and represents an important bridge between international theoretical frameworks and Polish literary studies.