Michał Paweł Markowski

Michał Paweł Markowski serves as Professor, Head of Department, and Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in Polish Language and Literature at the University of Illinois Chicago's Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies. Based in University Hall 1630.

Research specializes in 20th-century Polish literature, literary theory, and comparative literature, with emphasis on European modernism, avant-garde movements, translation theory, Continental philosophy, and literature's political dimensions.

Publications include 15 recent scholarly works examining philological imagination, Polish cultural identity, Bruno Schulz's philosophical dimensions, Central European dialectics, and Roland Barthes' political thought. Ongoing book projects explore European modernity history and aesthetic askesis.

Creative works include photo-essay collections (American Notebook; Indian Notebook; Andalusian Notebook) and novel Day on Earth (Angelus Prize nominee). Academic honors include the Gdynia Prize nomination for essay collection Dribble.