Magdalena Mączyńska
Teaching Professor
Associate Director, Drexel Teaching and Learning Center
Department of English and Philosophy
Education:
- PhD - English, Catholic University of America, 2006
Research Interests:
- Teaching pedagogy
- Climate fiction
- Climate pedagogy
- Anglophone fiction
- Urban fiction
- Post-secular fiction
- Ecocriticism
Bio:
Magdalena Mączyńska spends her days reading, thinking, and writing about the stories we tell and the relationships we build with our human and greater-than-human kin. Her most recent research focuses on the intersection of climate literature, social justice, and teaching pedagogy. She is passionate about the art and craft of teaching and has received two Mellon Innovative Teaching Grants and a Waverly Street Foundation National Climate Hub Grant (via Drexel’s Environmental Collaboratory) to support her climate pedagogy work. Her scholarly and pedagogical writing on climate literature has been published in Frame, ISLE, the Journal of Modern Literature, and Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy.
Selected Publications:
“Here and Now: Using Poetry to Resist Alienation in the Climate Change Classroom.” In Existential Toolkit for Climate Educators, eds. Jennifer Atkinson and Sarah Ray. University of California Press, 2024.
“Attention, Connection, Dialogue: Teaching Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in the Climate Fiction Classroom.” In Teaching the Literature of Climate Change, ed. Debra J. Rosenthal. MLA, 2024.
“Return of the ‘Savage’ in Contemporary Climate Fiction.” Green Letters (2023): 1-13.
“Cli-fi and the Crisis of the Middle Class.” In Cli-Fi and Class: Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary American Climate Fiction, ed. Debra J. Rosenthal. University of Virginia Press, 2023.
“‘People Are Monkeys Who Have Forgotten That They Are Monkeys’: The Refugee as Eco-Cosmopolitan Allegory in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 28.3 (Autumn 2021): 1089–1106.
“Holding the Space: Reflections on Small-Class Teaching and Learning.” In The Academic’s Handbook, eds. Lori A. Flores and Jocelyn H. Olcott. Duke University Press, 2020.
“Welcome to the Post-Anthropolis: Urban Space and Climate Change in Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow, Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140, and Lev Rosen’s Depth.” Journal of Modern Literature 43:2 (Spring 2019): 165–181.
The Gospel According to the Novelist: Religious Scripture and Contemporary Fiction. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.