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Marta Figlerowicz

Marta Figlerowicz

Marta Figlerowicz is an associate professor of comparative literature and English at Yale University, where she is also affiliated with film and media studies. The author of two books, Flat Protagonists (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Spaces of Feeling (Cornell University Press, 2017), she is at work on a project on the phenomenology of digital media. icon

Intellectual Alchemists

By Marta Figlerowicz

What distinguishes the American from the European intellectual? Does that matter?

We Other Victorians

By Marta Figlerowicz

The late 19th and early 21st centuries share a common loss of technological innocence.

Counter-histories of the Internet

By Marta Figlerowicz

What could the internet have been? We’ve grown so used to our digital networks that they can seem like a force of nature, with laws as immutable as the laws of physics ...

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