Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

Dr Marek Pawlicki

E-mail: marek.pawlicki@us.edu.pl

ORCID: 0000-0003-3477-0831

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marek-Pawlicki-2

I am a graduate of English Studies of the Jagiellonian University, where I also completed my PhD. My doctoral thesis, defended in 2012, was devoted to the works of J.M. Coetzee. In the years 2008-16 I was a lecturer at the State School of Higher Education in Oświęcim. I have been an assistant professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice since 2016: first in the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, and currently in the Institute of Literary Studies. I am the author of Between Illusionism and Anti-Illusionism: Self-Reflexivity in the Chosen Novels of J.M. Coetzee and “Enactments of Life”: The Short Stories of Nadine Gordimer (2023). I have published articles about writers from South Africa (J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Damon Galgut), Britain (Iris Murdoch, William Golding), and Ireland (John Banville, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín). My current research project concentrates on South African literature.

List of selected publications:

Critical studies

• “Enactments of Life”: The Short Stories of Nadine Gordimer. University of Silesia Press, 2023.
• Between Illusionism and Anti-Illusionism: Self-Reflexivity in the Chosen Novels of J. M. Coetzee. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Articles and essays:

• The Genuine Ambivalence of Detachment: Exploring the Socioecological Unconscious in Damon Galgut’s „The Impostor”. Critical Perspectives on Damon Galgut / Białas Zbigniew (ed.), 2025, Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 65-83
• „There Are Other Kinds of Exile”: Exploring the Stance of Detachment in Damon Galgut’s „The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs”. Postcolonial Text, 2025, vol. 20, nr 1, pp. 1-19
• Ambiguous territory: Revisiting Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2025, vol. 61, nr 5, pp. 678-691. 
  DOI:10.1080/17449855.2025.2489410
• Empathy, Sympathy and Witnessing Suffering in Damon Galgut’s „Small Circle of Beings” and „The Guardian”. Journal of Southern African Studies, 2025, nr 51, pp. 257-273. DOI:10.1080/03057070.2025.2548663
• Love, death, and secular grace in J.M. Coetzee’s The Pole. Orbis Litterarum, 2025. DOI:10.1111/oli.70002
• Suffering, Violence and Victimhood: Damon Galgut’s “A Sinless Season” as an Allegory. Scrutiny2, 2025, pp. 1-13. DOI:10.1080/18125441.2025.2524620
• The elusiveness of shame: Reading for affect and emotion in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s „Animalia Paradoxa”. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2025, vol. 60, nr 2, pp. 260-273. 
  DOI:10.1177/30333962251338464
• Beyond Critical Realism and ‘Situated Postcolonial Modernism’: Nadine Gordimer’s Readings of Franz Kafka. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 2024, vol. 36, nr 1, pp. 69-81. 
• Reading Resistance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise: An Analysis of Narrative Perspective. English Studies in Africa, 2024, pp. 1-15. 
• „There might be no bottom to it”: unplumbed depths and uncanny emotions in Damon Galgut’s „The Quarry”. English in Africa, 2024, vol. 51, nr 2, pp. 29-46
• „A Flight from History”? Nadine Gordimer’s Congo Journey. Anglica Wratislaviensia, 2023, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 1-12
• „It Was a Brutal Land”: Exploring the Personal and the Political in Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings (1988). Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2023, vol. 32, nr 1, pp. 17-33
• „Each of Us Has a Thousand Lives”: Fragmented Selves in the Stories of Nadine Gordimer. Academic Journal of Modern Philology, 2023, vol. 19, pp. 245-255