Anna Bendrat
ORCID iD Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Department of English and American Studies, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4a, 20-031 Lublin
Poland

Anna Bendrat is Assistant Professor at the Department of English and American Studies in the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. As a member of a research team dedicated to cognitive poetics, she focuses her interests on metaphors of the body, memory, and emotions in contemporary American literature and media. Her current research centers on the rhetoric of marginalized identities in contemporary American drama. She serves on the board of the Polish Rhetoric Society. She is engaged in a project funded by the National Science Centre entitled “Rhetorical Deconstruction of the ‘Out-side’ Category in Contemporary American Drama: A Study of the Works by Martyna Majok and Aleshea Harris.”

Important publications:

2024: “The Messenger Has Arrived”: The Angel of America as a Prophet of Intra-action on Stage, Studies in Theatre and Performance, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2024.2303920

2023: “How Do You Know Who You Are?”: Marjorie Prime on Envisioning Humanity Through the Faculty of AI-Powered Memory as Reconstructive Tissue, Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, 13, 210-228. https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.13.12

2023: The Impossibility of Fleeing: The Deconstruction of Urban Space in Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living”, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 11(1), 120-135.  https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2023-0007

2020: Socratic Dialogues on a Complex Body–Soul Relation in Plato’s Phaedo and Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights”, 452°F Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, 23, 191-211.  https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2020.23.10

2020: Transitioning the Edges of Multiple Text Worlds: A Cognitive Processing Path from Textuality to Texture in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, Polish Journal for American Studies, 14, 243-268.  https://doi.org/10.7311/PJAS.14/2/2020.08