Marta Figlerowicz

Marta Figlerowicz is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, specializing in modernist literature, transcultural communication, and contemporary visual media. Her research spans European, American, Brazilian, and West African literary traditions, with a focus on marginalized modernist writers and intersections between anthropology and comparative literature.

She holds a Ph.D. (2013) and M.A. (2011) from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. (2009) from Harvard University. Her scholarly works include Flat Protagonists (2016), Spaces of Feeling (2017), and an upcoming monograph on modernity and transcultural knowledge. She is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and member of the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Her research interests include critical theory, new media studies, and post-socialist art practices. Recent publications explore topics such as mimesis in violence representation, James Joyce’s linguistic innovations, and digital culture’s engagement with historical aesthetic forms. She teaches courses on literary theory, world cinema, and feminist/queer theory.

Prof. Figlerowicz is fluent in English, Polish, French, German, Yiddish, Portuguese, and other languages, enabling her transnational research. She is currently completing a translation of Polish theorist Maria Janion’s work for an Anglophone audience.