Malgorzata (Margret) Grebowicz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Theory, received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Philosophy from Emory University and her B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in Philosophy and German.
Professor Grebowicz is a continental philosopher, researching environmental imagination and desire. She is especially interested in wilderness, public lands, wild animals, and pet-keeping. For the past two years she has been conducting field research on the southern U.S. border, writing about migration and conservation.
She is deeply committed to public-facing research and writing, both in her own work--She has written articles for the Atlantic, LA Review of Books, and Slate—and in promoting the work of others. She founded and edits the Practices series for Duke University Press, which features public-facing writing by a wide range of scholars and practitioners. Her own beloved practices include foraging for mushrooms, taking preposterously long road trips, and cuddling her dogs. She lives with two old ones: a basenji named Abba and a chihuahua named Waffles.
She has authored the following books: Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans (2021), Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. The End of the World (2020), Whale Song (2017), The National Park to Come (2015), Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway (2015, co-authored with Helen Merrick) and Why Internet Porn Matters (2013). She also co-edited Lyotard and Critical Practice (2021) and Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan (2004), and edited Gender After Lyotard (2007) and SciFi in the Mind's Eye: Reading Science Through Science Fiction (2007).
Her current writing projects include Foraging, a book on mushroom foraging and another book about the national parks on the border, titled The Border Sublime.
She is a native of Poland and is currently affiliated with the University of Silesia in Poland. Prior to that, she taught in Siberia. Prior to that, she held tenure at two American colleges, Goucher College and University of Houston-Downtown. During this time she also worked as a jazz singer for about a decade, in Texas and New York City. She was a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Scholar at University of Dundee, the inaugural Resident in Situated Philosophy at Arizona State University, and a Marc Sanders Foundation Philosophy in the Media Fellow.