Oliwia Majchrowska is an alumna of King’s College London (BA) and the University of Cambridge (MPhil), where she obtained degrees in Comparative Literature. Her BA thesis explored the relationship between representations of sexuality and the problem of collective identity in Witold Gombrowicz’s Pornografia and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint. In 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Stanley Bill, she wrote a master’s thesis on the motive of failed investigation in Polish and American novels, which reinterpret the conventions of detective fiction. Her current doctoral project analyses the aesthetic, linguistic, and bodily manifestations of silence in the novels of Paul Auster and Don DeLillo.

In 2021, she was awarded the Michael Silk Prize for graduating with the highest academic score in the Department of Comparative Literature at King’s College London. She also obtained a full T. S. Eliot International Summer School scholarship in 2020 and 2025.

Her research interests include American postmodernism, representations of collective identity in literature and film, experimental autobiographical forms, and the dialogues between literature, philosophy, and visual art.