Natalia Mika

Writer, Student, and Editor in Poland

Natalia Mika

Writer, Student, and Editor in Poland

Education

Studies

Polish philology student, BA. Besides general academic major, pursues two specialties: Creative Writing and Teaching Spec., and is planning to attend Social Communication Spec. as an auditor.

An active member of Koło Edytorów Trantiputl [Trantiputl Editors’ Students Association], where gained experience as an editor and social media manager.

Academic courses:

throughout studies, attended such courses, as:

  • Aesthetics of Space
  • Basics of Psychology for Teachers
  • Contemporary Polish Language
  • Interdisciplinarity in Practice
  • Introduction to Literary Research Methods
  • Lexicology, Lexicography, Linguistic Databases and Dictionaries
  • Literary Axiology
  • Poetics and Literary Analysis
  • Research and Informatic Education
  • Theoretical Readings
  • Theoretical Rudiments of Language Culture

Projects

Academic projects:

  • proofreading part of: Amanda Cross, Śmierć i profesura[Death in a Tenured Position], red. E. Kraskowska and E. Rajewska, Poznań, Wydawnictwo “Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne” [s.a.; not published yet] | '23;
  • The 17th edition of Konkurs Literacki o Nagrodę Fanfila [FanFil Literature Contest]. (Students’ Jury member) | '23;
  • experimental site, dedicated to new literary movements and intermedial phenomena (articles written by ChatGPT) | '23;
  • working on:Poetry Assistance. Writing & Theory for Very Beginners, webpage including e.g.: theoretical basics, writing and composition hints, artistic view practise.

Conferences / events attended:

  • Jak robi się szkołę (i jak szkoła robi nas)?[How to make school and how school makes us?] | '23
  • Poznań Poetów [Poznań of Poets/Poets’ Poznań] | '23

Skills & interests

Skills

gained on academic courses:

  • copywriting basics
  • correspondence
  • functional texts redaction
  • graphic design basics
  • language communication ethics
  • proofreading
  • social media management
  • standardised text format (Harvad, Oxford)
  • text edition
  • web design basics

other:

  • blog/web platforms (Blogger, Tumblr, Wix, WordPress)
  • good social skills
  • information searching
  • MS: Word, PowerPoint
  • social media platforms (Bandcamp, Discord, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo)

Interests:

research interests:
• affective turn • cognitive sciences • communication theory • deconstructivism • e-literature • experimental literature • intermediality • intertextuality • literature theory • logovisuality • modern philosophy • neurosciences (linguistics, perception) • new / new new media • phenomenology • psychodynamics • (publ.) image and PR • reception and perception • semantics • semiotics • synaesthesia •

  • Education
    • Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
    • Polish and Classical Philology Faculty (WFPiK)
    • Polish Philology Institute (IFP)