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Prof. Dr. habil. Ewa A. Łukaszyk [woo-ka-sheek] (b. 1972) is a cutting-edge Comparative/World Literature scholar. Her major methodological innovation is related to the concept of transcoloniality, re-theorising the condition of cultures closing their colonial-decolonial-postcolonial historical cycle, recovering or gaining their deep-time awareness, and healing the wounds of formerly experienced symbolic violence as they move beyond Eurocentric models of creativity. As a researcher in global literary studies, she explores comparative poetics and aesthetics beyond Western canons, often tracing the literary repercussions of spiritual traditions, mainly in Islam (Sufism) and Buddhism.
Defining herself as an intellectual Nomadian, she remains on the outskirts of the mainstream academic institutions. From 1992 to 1997, she studied Romance Philology at the Marie Sklodowska-Curie University in Lublin and Portuguese studies at the University of Lisbon. Later, she also studied Comparative Literature in Lisbon and Oriental Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where she obtained her PhD in 1999 and her habilitation in 2003. From 1997 to 2006, she taught at the Jagiellonian University, and from 2006 to 2018, at the University of Warsaw. In 2018, she was awarded the title of full professor by the Polish official authorities; however, in the atmosphere of political, social, and academic crisis in her country, she resigned from her tenured position and adopted the identity of an itinerant scholar. For almost a decade, she worked as a research fellow supported by diverse institutions: she was a Calouste Gulbenkian scholar in Portugal (2016-2017 and 2024-2025), a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow in France (2017-2018), a guest researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands (2018-2020) and, again in France, a fellow-in-residence at CY Advanced Studies (2020-2021). Currently, she is a professor of Romance Literatures at the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. She is also a member of the European Society of Comparative Literature.
Ewa A. Lukaszyk is a prolific scholarly author. With an extensive record of nearly 300 contributions, including seven books, she is currently working on a major monograph Totality and Transcoloniality: The Construction of a World in Portuguese Culture. She publishes and maintains academic contacts in about three dozen countries across all inhabited continents, contributing to established and emerging academic communities. In her analysis of literary texts, she combines a variety of translocal perspectives, focusing on transcultural aspects and transgressive imagination, mysticism, and religious heterodoxies. Maintaining a broad outlook on World Literature, she works on major, minor, and ultraminor literary legacies, like those of Guinea-Bissau, Tunisia, Sri Lanka or the Caucasus.
Her intellectual passion and the utmost point of her research program consists of examining the human on the brink of the cultural. She explores insufficiency, incapacity, or the discomfort of complete immersion of a creative individual in culture as a semi-automatic system of meaning (re)production. At the end of the road, she has in view a theory of man as a transgressor of cultural legacies, striving to achieve an extracultural condition of authenticity, comfort, and intimacy lying beyond the perimeter of culturally predetermined constraints and servitudes.
Privately, Ewa A. Lukaszyk is a visual artist, traveller, polyglot, and collector of books in various languages. She is also keenly interested in art history and music.
Defining herself as an intellectual Nomadian, she remains on the outskirts of the mainstream academic institutions. From 1992 to 1997, she studied Romance Philology at the Marie Sklodowska-Curie University in Lublin and Portuguese studies at the University of Lisbon. Later, she also studied Comparative Literature in Lisbon and Oriental Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where she obtained her PhD in 1999 and her habilitation in 2003. From 1997 to 2006, she taught at the Jagiellonian University, and from 2006 to 2018, at the University of Warsaw. In 2018, she was awarded the title of full professor by the Polish official authorities; however, in the atmosphere of political, social, and academic crisis in her country, she resigned from her tenured position and adopted the identity of an itinerant scholar. For almost a decade, she worked as a research fellow supported by diverse institutions: she was a Calouste Gulbenkian scholar in Portugal (2016-2017 and 2024-2025), a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow in France (2017-2018), a guest researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands (2018-2020) and, again in France, a fellow-in-residence at CY Advanced Studies (2020-2021). Currently, she is a professor of Romance Literatures at the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. She is also a member of the European Society of Comparative Literature.
Ewa A. Lukaszyk is a prolific scholarly author. With an extensive record of nearly 300 contributions, including seven books, she is currently working on a major monograph Totality and Transcoloniality: The Construction of a World in Portuguese Culture. She publishes and maintains academic contacts in about three dozen countries across all inhabited continents, contributing to established and emerging academic communities. In her analysis of literary texts, she combines a variety of translocal perspectives, focusing on transcultural aspects and transgressive imagination, mysticism, and religious heterodoxies. Maintaining a broad outlook on World Literature, she works on major, minor, and ultraminor literary legacies, like those of Guinea-Bissau, Tunisia, Sri Lanka or the Caucasus.
Her intellectual passion and the utmost point of her research program consists of examining the human on the brink of the cultural. She explores insufficiency, incapacity, or the discomfort of complete immersion of a creative individual in culture as a semi-automatic system of meaning (re)production. At the end of the road, she has in view a theory of man as a transgressor of cultural legacies, striving to achieve an extracultural condition of authenticity, comfort, and intimacy lying beyond the perimeter of culturally predetermined constraints and servitudes.
Privately, Ewa A. Lukaszyk is a visual artist, traveller, polyglot, and collector of books in various languages. She is also keenly interested in art history and music.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9969-0459Scopus Author ID: 56436640800
Web of Science ID: M-6900-2018
CiênciaVitae ID: FC13-4120-24BF
Wikipedia: in Polish
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Web of Science ID: M-6900-2018
CiênciaVitae ID: FC13-4120-24BF
Wikipedia: in Polish
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1972. Born in Lublin, eastern Poland.
1992-1997. Studies in Romance languages and literature at the University Marie Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin and the University of Lisbon.
1997-2006. Teaching Portuguese & Lusophone studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
1998-1999. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant; postgraduate studies in comparative literature at the University of Lisbon.
1999. Doctoral degree at the Jagiellonian University.
2000. Współczesna proza portugalska (1939-1999). Tematy, problemy, obsesje.
2000. Camões Institute research grant, Portugal.
2000-2001. Oriental studies at the Jagiellonian University.
2002-2003. Starting grant of the Foundation for Polish Science.
2003. Terytorium a świat. Wyobrażeniowe konfiguracje przestrzeni w literaturze portugalskiej od schyłku średniowiecza do współczesności. Habilitation degree.
2005. Pokusa pustyni. Nomadyzm jako wyjście z kryzysu współczesności w pisarstwie José Saramago.
2006-2018. Associate professor at the University of Warsaw.
2007. (ed.) Archipelagi wyobraźni. Z dziejów toposu wyspy w kręgu literatur romańskich.
2010. Historia literatur iberoamerykańskich (with Nina Pluta).
2010-2015. Member of the faculty in the International Doctoral Program "The Traditions of Mediterranean Humanism and the Challenges of Our Times" financed by the Foundation for Polish Science.
2012. Beginnings of experimentation with such concepts as multidimensional symbolic space, cultural transgression, transculture and extracultural becoming of man.
2015. Imperium i nostalgia. "Styl późny" w kulturze portugalskiej.
2016. (ed.) Nie tylko salon. Wspólnotowe formy życia literackiego.
2016-2017. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation research grant, Portugal.
2017-2018. Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, France. Research project on Adamic language.
2018. Humanistyka, która nadchodzi. W poszukiwaniu kondycji transkulturowej.
2018. (ed.) Niewłasne lektury. Od pisarstwa w języku wyuczonym do wielości kultur czytania.
2018. Official title of full professor (nomination by the President of Poland).
2018-2020. Guest researcher at Leiden University, Netherlands (LUCIS Centre for Islam and Society).
2019. Mgławica Pessoa. Literatura portugalska od romantyzmu do współczesności.
2020-2021. CY Advanced Studies fellow-in-residence, France. Research project "Mystical legacies and cultural transgression in the contemporary Euro-Mediterranean writing".
2024-2025. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation research grant, Portugal. Research project "Images of totality and the global inscription of Portuguese culture. A transcolonial perspective".
2025-2026. Professor of Romance literatures, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
2026. Totality and Transcoloniality. The Construction of a World in Portuguese Culture.
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