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dr hab. Agata Zarzycka<\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Department of American Literature and Culture
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My research deals with the functioning of broadly understood concepts of identity \u2013 from self-fashioning philosophies to posthumanist takes on the Anthropocene \u2013 in popular culture, and especially in video games, role-playing games and texts inspired by SF, fantasy and gothic conventions. While I usually focus on texts of culture and the dynamics between them, I am also interested in transmedial and communal dimensions of popular culture, including media-related fandoms and subcultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Socialized Fiction: Role-Playing Games as a Multidimensional Space of Interaction between Literary Theory and Practice<\/em> (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Grado, 2009) I analyzed role-playing games in terms of poststructuralist critical theories. My more recent book, A Goth Reflection: Self-Fashioning and Popular Culture<\/em> (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroc\u0142awskiego, 2019) is devoted to the cultural dimension of identity projects as exemplified by narrative and aesthetic tropes connected with the goth subculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have also published papers on contemporary fantasy and gothic literature, role-playing games, video games, transmedia narratives and fanfiction. My current research project approaches identity constructions in terms of biopolitics and posthumanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Game studies<\/li>
  • Posthumanism and biopolitics<\/li>
  • Theories of self-fashioning<\/li>
  • Gothic studies<\/li>
  • Transmedia and fan studies<\/li>
  • Subcultural studies<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Selected courses:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • Theoretical approaches to the protagonist in role-playing games<\/li>
    • Childhood and participatory culture<\/li>
    • How to do research on American speculative fiction? SF, fantasy and horror in literary and cultural studies<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      American life and institutions<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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