Wojciech Drąg is an associate professor in the Department of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the Institute of English Studies. He is the author of Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis (Routledge, 2020) and Revisiting Loss: Memory, Trauma and Nostalgia in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (Cambridge Scholars, 2014; Suiseisha, 2021 – Japanese translation), and co-editor of four edited volumes, including Critical Perspectives on Max Porter (Routledge, 2024).

In 2007, he received an MA in Literature, Culture and Society from the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales). In 2013, he obtained a PhD from the University of Wrocław; in 2021, he was awarded a habilitation.

Wojciech Drąg has received fellowships from the Kosciuszko Foundation (University of Utah, 2018), the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (Dartmouth College, 2021), the French government (École normale supérieure de Lyon, 2023) and the University of Wrocław’s Initiative of Excellence – Research University (KU Leuven, 2025). In 2021, he was awarded the Iuvenes Wratislaviae prize for young scholars, funded by the local branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His academic interests focus on contemporary British and American fiction and non-fiction and on formal experimentation in literature.

He was deputy head of the Institute of English Studies in 2014-2024. He is currently vice dean for research at the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and deputy chairman of the board of literary studies. In 2024, he was elected president of the Polish Association for the Study of English.

More information: Academia.edu

Books
Drąg, W., Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Drąg, W., Revisiting Loss: Memory, Trauma and Nostalgia in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. [tłumaczenie na język japoński – Tokio: Suiseisha, 2020]

Edited volumes

Rudrum, D., Wojtas P., Drąg W. Critical Perspectives on Max Porter. New York: Routledge, 2024.

Guignery, V., Drąg, W., The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction. Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2019.

Drąg, W., Kębłowska-Ławniczak, E., Spectrum of Emotions: From Love to Grief. Frankfurt am Mein: Peter Lang, 2016.

Drąg, W., Krogulec, J., Marecki M., War and Words: Representations of Military Conflict in Literature and the Media.  Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Articles in journals

Drąg, W., & H. Sroka, 2024, The Poetics of Crisis in Life-Writing Experiments: A Conversation. Autobiografia: Literatura. Kultura. Media (22)1: 163–170.

Drąg, W., 2024, “Hurry-hurry to Vermont!”: Joe Brainard’s Rural Refuge. Er(r)go. Theory–Literature–Culture 49(2): 137–53.

Drąg, W., 2024, Tracking Change in Data-Driven Autobiography: Nicholas Felton’s Annual Reports, 2005–2014. Anglica Wratislaviensia 62(2): 103–17.

Drąg, W., 2024, The Index as a Form of Self-Archiving in the Works of Alejandro Cesarco and Joan Wickersham. CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary 10(1): 1–22.

Drąg, W., 2023, Material Loss: Multimodality and Mourning in B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates and Anne Carson’s Nox. Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 18 (2): 129-43.

Drąg, W., 2022, Collage Autothanatographies: David Markson’s Reader’s Block Quartet and Evan Lavender-Smith’s From Old Notebooks. Orbis Litterarum 77: 19-36.

Drąg, W., 2021, “Houses. Cats. Cars. Trees. Me”: Outward and Inward Journeys in Joe Brainard’s Collage Travelogues. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 56: 235-48.

Drąg, W., 2021, Fame at Last: Belated Experimentalists Revisited. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 27 (1): 179-82.

Drąg, W., 2020, The Collage Novel’s Uses of the Readymade in Tom Phillips’s A Humument and Graham Rawle’s Woman’s World. Litteraria Copernicana 3 (35): 127-39.

Drąg, W., 2020, Review: Magda Dragu, Form and Meaning in Avant-Garde Collage and Montage. Polish Journal of English Studies 6.1: 68-71.

Drąg, W., 2020, The Goldsmiths Prize and Its Conceptualization of Experimental Literature. Polish Journal of English Studies 5.1: 35-55.

Drąg, W., 2020, Embraceable Joe: Notes on Joe Brainard’s Art. Electronic Book Review, 6 June.

Drąg, W., 2020, A galaxy of signifiers”: David Clark’s 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein as a Paradigm of the Barthesian Writerly/Plural Text. Lublin Studies in Modern Language and Literature 44.2: 113-22.

Maziarczyk, G. & W. Drąg, 2020, Narrative Fiction and Other Media: An Introduction. Lublin Studies in Modern Language and Literature 44.2: 1-2.

Drąg, W., 2019, Collage and Crisis in Steve Tomasula’s VAS: An Opera in Flatland and Lance Olsen’s Head in Flames. Notre Dame Review 48 

Drąg, W., 2019, The Curious Case of the British Avant-Garde. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 25.1: 438-441.

Drąg, W., 2019, Joe Brainard’s I Remember, Fragmentary Life Writing and the Resistance to Narrative and Identity. Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 9: 224-36.

Drąg, W., 2018, Cutting to the Chase: Microfictions, Empathy and the New Sincerity. Brno Studies in English 44/1: 103-17.

Drąg, W., 2018, The Curricular Canon of Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century British and Irish Literature at Polish Universities. Anglica Wratislaviensia 56 (2018): 45-56.

Drąg, W., 2017, Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation and the Revival of Fragmentary Writing. Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 56: 57-72.

Drąg, W., 2016, Heteroglossia and Fragmentariness in The Absent Therapist by Will Eaves. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 51/4: 53-66.

Drąg, W., 2016, “A Novel Against the Novel”: David Markson’s Antinovelistic Tetralogy. Polish Journal of English Studies 1.1: 11-26.

Drąg, W., 2016, “I’m a I’m a Scholar at the Moment”: The Voice of the Literary Critic in the Works of American Scholar-Metafictionists. American, British and Canadian Studies 26: 36-51.

Drąg, W., 2016, Trauma with a Pinch of Salt (review of The Edges of Trauma by Tamas Benyei and Alexandra Stara). Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies  22.1: 285-90.

Drąg, 2015, W. Compulsion to Re-enact: Trauma and Nostalgia in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies  21.2: 377-92.

Drąg, W., 2015, Wilfred Owen and the Great War Centenary, Anglica Wratislaviensia 53: 55-64.

Drąg, W., 2014, The Man Booker Prize and the Emerging Canon of Contemporary British Fiction, Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 9: 17-28.

Drąg, W., 2013, Modernism – an Abandoned Legacy?: Gabriel Josipovici’s Critique of the Contemporary British Novel, Interactions: Ege Journal of British and American Studies 1: 87-94.

Drąg, W., 2011, The Construction of an Alternative Reality in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled and Its Metaphorical Capacity, Philologica Wratislaviensia: Acta et Studia 6: 65-76.

Drąg, W., 2011, The Shadow of the Nagasaki Bombing in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills, Biuletyn Naukowy Wrocławskiej Wyższej Szkoły Informatyki Stosowanej 1: 12-16.

Drąg, W., 2010, Elements of the Dreamlike and the Uncanny in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled, Styles of Communication 1: 31-40.

Drąg, W., 2009, ‘I don’t believe in God but I miss Him’: Religion and Nostalgia in the Work of Julian Barnes, American, British and Canadian Studies 2: 130-142.

Chapters in edited volumes

Drąg, W. Collage and Late Style. Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue, eds. M. Dragu, New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2024: 83-98.

Drąg, W. The Rise and Rise of Max Porter. Critical Perspectives on Max Porter, eds. D. Rudrum, P. Wojtas & W. Drąg, New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2024: 1-20.

Drąg, W. „Only connect” – mikrofikcje jako ćwiczenia z empatii: How We Are Hungry, Short Short Stories i How the Water Feels to the Fishes. Dave Eggers: Mistrzowie Literatury Amerykańskiej, ed. J. Nikiel, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2024: 57-73.

Drąg, W. The Dispersed Self, the Database and Digital Biography: David Clark’s 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein. The Experimental Book Object: Materiality, Media, Design, eds. S. Sjöberg, M. Keskinen & A. Karhumaa, New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2023: 176-94.

Drąg, W., Radykalnie zwięzłe sceny z życia postindustrialnego (Krótkie wywiady z paskudnymi ludźmi). David Foster Wallace: Mistrzowie Literatury Amerykańskiej,  ed. J. Hetman, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2021: 85-101.

Drąg, W., Collage Manifestos: Fragmentation and Appropriation in David Markson’s This is Not a Novel and David Shields’s Reality Hunger. The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction,  eds. Guignery, V., Drąg, W., Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2019: 107-22.

Guignery, V., Drąg, W. Introduction: The Art of the Fragment. The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction,  eds. Guignery, V., Drąg, W., Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2019: XI-XXX.

Drąg, W. Pamięć, nostalgia i przymus powtarzania w „Resztkach” Toma McCarthy’ego. Powieść brytyjska w XXI wieku: szkice,  eds. Ewa Kowal, Bożena Kucała i Robert Kusek, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2018: 37-50.

Drąg, W. In Pieces: Fragmentation, Friendship and Mourning in B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates. The Politics and Poetics of Friendship,  eds. Ewa Kowal i Robert Kusek, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2017: 323-34.

Drąg, W. Dziedzictwo tradycji irlandzkiego eksperymentu literackiego: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing. Powieść irlandzka w XXI wieku. Szkice,  eds. Ewa Kowal i Robert Kusek, Kraków: Wyd. Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2016: 133-50.

Drąg, W. Not about Glory, Honour or Majesty: The Representation of War in a GCSE Poetry Anthology. War and Words: Representations of Military Conflict in Literature and the Media,  eds. Wojciech Drąg, Jakub Krogulec i Mateusz Marecki, Newcastle:Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016: 133-42.

Drąg, W., Writing cure? Narrating the Loss in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day, The Self Industry: Therapy and Fiction,  eds. Woźniakowska A., Szurman J., Kowalczyk-Twarowski K., Wydawnictwo UŚ, 2015: 190-204.

Drąg, W., Thwarted Quests for Meaning: Religion, Art and Love in the Early Novels of Julian Barnes, Stunned into Uncertainty: Essays on Julian Barnes’s Fiction,  eds. Tory E., Vesztergom J., Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 2014: 99-114.

Drąg, W., Putting It Bluntly: Elizabeth Costello in Krzysztof Warlikowski’s (A)pollonia, Travelling Texts: J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers,  eds. Kucała B., Kusek R., Peter Lang, 2014: 49-62.

Drąg, W., Beyond the Confines of Realism: Seeking New Metaphors for Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans, Crossroads in Literature and Culture,  eds. Fabiszak J., Urbaniak-Rybicka E., Wolski B., Springer-Verlag,2013: 331-40.

Drąg, W., Elements of the Dreamlike and the Uncanny in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled [przedruk], Znajome staje się przerażające: Pojęcie niesamowitego w  języku i kulturze,  ed. Wicher A., Wydawnictwo AHE w Łodzi, 2013: 185-96.

Drąg, W., “Year after year, blunder after blunder”: The Compulsion to Repeat in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled, Culture and Rites/Rights of Grief,  eds. Białas Z., Jędrzejko P., Szołtysek J., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013: 208-22.

Drąg, W., Living with the Wound: A Comparative Analysis of the Representations of Post-Atomic Trauma in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “A Strange and Sometimes Sadness” and A Pale View of Hills, Comparative Studies in Anglophone Literatures: Transnational, Postcolonial, and Auto/Thematic (Re)Considerations and (Re)Visions, ed. Koneczniak G., Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, 2012: 125-36.

Drąg, W., “To have been here”: Language and Loss in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot and John Banville’s The Sea, PASE Papers: Studies in Culture and Literature, eds. Cichoń A., Kębłowska-Ławniczak E., Atut, 2009: 45-50.

Other publications

Drąg W., Pisarz świata ułudy, Tygodnik Powszechny 42 (2017): 76-78.

Drąg, W., Literacki Nobel dla Kazuo Ishiguro, Tygodnik Powszechny (5.10.2017).