Katarzyna Horabik

Katarzyna Horabik is a doctoral student in literary studies. Bringing together previous expertise her dissertation will be focusing on the specific nature of literary magic realism found in Central Europe. Her comparative analysis inscribes itself in post-dependance literary studies, highlights the unstable nature of mimeticity in literary fiction along with the deep-rooted folklore and tradition of the particular regions (both geographical and literary) in Central Europe.

Katarzyna holds a Master’s Degree in Literary Criticism as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Hungarian Studies and Comparative Literature from the Jagiellonian University. Her academic interest draws from the cultural diversity of Central Europe, which is why she gives special attention to nuance and details capable of creating meaning and considers them in 20th century and contemporary literature through the lenses of region, identity and equality. Of interest is the anthropology of borderland, the melting pot of languages and cultures, the question of identity and its (re)construction, transgression in cultural texts and the topos of melancholy. Her essays and reviews were published in Nowa Dekada Krakowska.