A Review of Eve Dunbar’s Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction (University of Minnesota Press, 2024)

Anna Pochmara is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. A former Fulbright fellow at Yale University, she completed her doctoral research under Hazel V. Carby. She is the author of two monographs: The Making of the New Negro (2011), which received the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education Award, and The Nadir and the Zenith (2021), which earned an honorary mention in the 2022 American Studies Network Book Prize. She has published over thirty articles and reviews in American studies. Pochmara co-edited Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity (2019) and a 2022 special issue of the European Journal of American Studies on boredom. Most recently, she co-edited The African American Novel in the 21^st Century (Brill, 2024) with Raphaël Lambert.