Malgorzata Kolankowska

Małgorzata Kolankowska earned her doctoral degree from the University of Wroclaw. She graduated from Spanish Philology and Journalism. Kolankowska is an assistant professor at the University of Wrocław, where she teaches at the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication. Additionally, she is a translator from Spanish into Polish. She has published the books Czerwony i Czarny: Polski spór medialny o Chile (Red and Black: Polish Media Discourse on Chile) (2013) and Wyspa. Mamo, przyjedźcie! Powiedzieli mi, że mam raka and various papers on Spanish and Polish media, literature, culture. She is particularly interested in the interdisciplinary study of the relations between media, literature, culture, and cultural and collective memory, especially in literary and visual journalism. She is the projects' coordinator of the Olga Tokarczuk Ex-centre. Academic Research Centre at the University of Wrocław. Her primary areas of research interest encompass the interconnections between journalism and literature, contemporary reportage, non-fiction literature, memory studies, and novel digital formats in journalism. As the person in charge of coordinating projects at the Olga Tokarczuk Ex-Centre. At the Academic Research Centre, she also places emphasis on the translations and the reception of Olga Tokarczuk's literary works throughout the globe. She is also interested in the connection between cancer patients and their surroundings, even though oncological communication is a crucial one. She is also the author of a non-fiction book about parents of children with cancer.