COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES PROGRAM

Marta Lasota (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary Studies with a home department in Slavic Languages and Literatures. She is also a Mellon Cluster Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on the relationship between trauma, spirituality, and queerness within 20th century and contemporary Polish and Latin American literature. She is also interested in Holocaust studies, Marxism, affect theory, divinity studies, translation, and autotheory/autofiction. 

Marta received her MA in the Humanities from the University of Chicago and earned her BA in English at Harvard University, where she wrote her thesis on contemporary human rights poetry. Prior to Northwestern, she has worked with PEN America on their Free Expression Programs team and interned with the Poetry Foundation. Marta is deeply passionate about creative writing, the power of storytelling, and in using the literary arts to build community within Chicago.