COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES PROGRAM

Marta Lasota (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate 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 explores queer Polish literature, with a special focus on bodies and borderlands, alongside transnational feminist movements between Eastern Europe and Latin America. She also works on literary translation from Polish to English.

Marta serves as a Graduate Writing Fellow at The Writing Place and, for the 2026-2027 academic year, as a Teaching Assistant for the Gender & Sexuality Studies program. In her teaching, Marta is committed to feminist pedagogy, empowering students to think critically, write fearlessly, and learn in community.

Marta received her M.A. in the Humanities from the University of Chicago and earned her B.A. in English at Harvard University, where she wrote her thesis on contemporary human rights poetry. Prior to Northwestern, she worked with PEN America on their Free Expression Programs team and interned with the Poetry Foundation.