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Dr. Krzysztof Majer specializes in contemporary North American fiction, including Canadian writing. Among his scholarly interests are: intermediality (especially the representation of musical forms in fiction), diasporic cultures in Canada (particularly the Jewish and the Arab diaspora), as well as translation, adaptation, and parody. He is the editor of the world鈥檚 first monograph on the fiction of the Lebanese-Canadian writer Rawi Hage, Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage (Brill, 2019), as well as the co-editor of Kanade, di Goldene Medine? Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives sur la litt茅rature et la culture juives canadiennes (Brill, 2018; with Justyna Fruzi艅ska, J贸zef Kwaterko and Norman Ravvin) and Tools of Their Tools. Communications Technologies and American Cultural Practice (CSP, 2009; with Grzegorz Ko艣膰). He has also published on Mordecai Richler (including a contribution to the Richler issue of Canadian Literature, University of British Columbia, 2010), Steven Millhauser, Patrick deWitt, Jack Kerouac, Mark Anthony Jarman, Thomas Bernhard, Vladimir Nabokov as well as on the films of the Coen Brothers. He has published interviews with Canadian writers (e.g. Bill Gaston, Rawi Hage or Sherry Simon) and theatre director Nicole Schneiderbauer. He is a member of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies (PACS) and the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). Since 2014, he has collaborated with the journal Canadian Literature as reviewer of scholarly and literary publications. In 2021 he began serving as the associate editor at Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture.

Dr. Majer was a visiting scholar, among others, at the Institute of Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal (2011), the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw (2015), the University of Silesia in Sosnowiec (2019), the Adam Mickiewicz University (2021) or the State University of Applied Sciences, Konin (2014, 2017, 2020). He has also participated in several teaching exchanges as part of the Erasmus program, e.g. at universities in Lisbon, Antwerp, Szeged, Turku, Izmir, and Giessen. Dr. Majer is a member of the advisory board for the Corona Fictions project, conducted at the University of Graz, Austria.

Krzysztof Majer also works as a translator of literature. He is a member of the Polish Literary Translators鈥� Association (PLTA); in 2023 he began serving as editor at 鈥淟iteratura na 艢wiecie鈥�. Earlier he was twice a recipient of the journal鈥檚 awards: for the translation of Allen Ginsberg鈥檚 Letters (2015) and Michael Herr鈥檚 Dispatches (2017). For the latter he was also nominated to the 鈥淕dynia鈥� Literary Prize and the Tadeusz Boy-呕ele艅ski Translation Work Award. In 2023 he was nominated again to both of these awards for his translation of David Markson's novel Wittgenstein's Mistress; that same year he was also nominated to the Energia Kultury award for his translation of Denis Johnson's volume of short stories, The Largesse of the Sea-Maiden. In 2016 his English renditions of selected stories from Andrzej Stasiuk鈥檚 collection 碍耻肠补箩膮肠 [Squatting Down] won him the 2nd Prize in the John Dryden Translation Contest, organized by the British Centre for Literary Translation and the British Comparative Literature Association; in 2019 in the same contest he received honorable mention for his translation of excerpts from Andrzej Muszy艅ski鈥檚 novel Podkrzywdzie [Harm鈥檚 Den]. In 2015 he was awarded a three-week residency at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre in Canada, where he stayed with writers Rawi Hage and Madeleine Thien. He has also translated, among others, John Cheever's A Vision of the World (Czarne, 2023), Herman Melville鈥檚 novella Benito Cereno ([in:] Nowele i opowiadania; P.I.W. 2020), Abdulrazak Gurnah鈥檚 Afterlives and Paradise (Wydawnictwo Pozna艅skie, 2022, 2023), Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg鈥檚 correspondence (two volumes, Czarne, 2012), Michael Chabon鈥檚 Telegraph Avenue (W.A.B., 2020), Patrick deWitt鈥檚 Undermajordomo Minor (Czarne, 2016), Patti Smith鈥檚 Year of the Monkey (Czarne, 2020), Jim Thompson鈥檚 Pop. 1280 (Czarne, 2021). Together with Kaja Gucio he has translated short fiction by Bill Gaston (Bogowie pokazuj膮 klaty, Marginesy, 2019) and Deborah Eisenberg (My Duck Is Your Duck, Wydawnictwo Cyranka, 2022). He has also translated short prose or excerpts (e.g. Steven Millhauser, Niall Griffiths, D. J. Enright or Stephen King,) as well as literary theory and criticism (e.g. Chinua Achebe, Stuart Hall, Arthur Machen) in journals such as Literatura na 艢wiecie and Art Inquiry. He was the guest editor of the Canada-themed issue of Literatura na 艢wiecie (3-4/2017 鈥� 548-549), for which he also translated works by Rawi Hage, M. A. Jarman, Madeleine Thien and John Gould. For the research purposes of Goldie Morgentaler (University of Lethbridge, Alberta), he has translated into English some hundred Polish letters exchanged by writers Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson. He has conducted translation workshops, among others at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna艅 (2017, 2020), the University of Wroc艂aw (2017), the University of Silesia (Sosnowiec, 2022) and the 艁贸d藕-based Dom Literatury.

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