
Weird Fictions Research Group
Head: dr Agnieszka Kotwasińska
Weird Fictions Research Group emerged in early 2020 out of the W.E.I.R.D. Students’ Reading Group which was established in 2018 at the American Studies Center, the University of Warsaw. Our research group invites students and early career researchers interested in all types of weird fictions.
If you enjoy weird fiction, SF, horror, and fantasy, our research group is a place for you. Join our discussions, movie screenings, seminars, guest lectures, and special events. We meet twice every month.
Our Fall 2018 schedule was devoted to questions of taste and paranoid reading, SF graphic novels, nostalgia and 80s animation. In the spring of 2019 we looked at cyber-punk and the posthuman. During Fall 2019 we discussed body horror in different cultural texts.
In Spring 2020 we talked about hybridity, monstrosity and transgression in SFF/horror/the weird and in Fall we organized a series of meetings called “EcoGothic Landscapes.” In Spring 2021 we’ll be talking about monsters, both old and new, as part of our “Monsters ReVisited” series.
ASC students receive 2 OZN points per meeting, and event organisers 4 OZN.
Follow us on FB: https://www.facebook.com/theWEIRDgroup/

Events Archive
EcoGothic Landscapes
- November 23, 2020
Brittany A. Roberts (Southeastern Louisiana University)
Ecological Intimacies in the Anthropocene: Horror, Ethics, and the Shadow of Nonhuman Difference - December 1, 2020
Alison Sperling (Technische Universität Berlin)
Weird Fiction and Ecological Thought - December 14, 2020
Beata Kubiak Ho-Chi (University of Warsaw)
Bliskie spotkania z istotami nie-ludzkimi we współczesnej literaturze japońskiej [In Polish] - January 18, 2021
Filip Peringer (University of Warsaw)
The Ur-Savage: The Anthropological Horror of Green Inferno and Bone Tomahawk - January 25, 2021
Jędrzej Burszta (University of Warsaw)
Weird Space Junkies: Speculations on the Psychedelic
The Day of the Hybrids
- June 5, 2020
Line Henriksen (IT University of Copenhagen)
Hybrids, monsters and unfinished texts: some stories for the anxious - June 5, 2020
Line Henriksen (IT University of Copenhagen)
Workshops: Writing Monsters - June 5, 2020
Karolina Żyniewicz & Kuba Piątkowski (University of Warsaw)
Warsztaty: KK1307 – przepis na hybrydę [In Polish]