Izabela Morska

Izabela Morska is a Polish scholar and writer, Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Gdańsk. Her current research on Paweł Adamowicz examines civic ethics, pluralism, and the cultural imaginaries of democracy. She holds an MA from the University of Gdańsk, a PhD from the Polish Academy of Sciences, and an MFA from Mills College, and has held research appointments at the University College Dublin Humanities Institute, the Open Society Archives at CEU Budapest, the Russian Institute for Advanced Study in Moscow, and the Beatrice Bain Research Group at UC Berkeley. A recipient of the Polish Ministry of Culture scholarship for The Legacy of Paweł Adamowicz project, she works at the intersection of media studies, border studies, and narrative ethics. Her teaching and writing explore American political imaginaries, embodiment narratives, subaltern studies, and creative nonfiction.