Polina Mackay

Caponeu Team Member • Scholar

Polina Mackay, PhD, Professor of Literature. Her research interests include gender and sexuality, feminism, literature and activism, representations of the body, the medical-political novel and illness narratives.

She is a principal researcher in the CAPONEU team. Her role is to contribute to the project with talks at workshops and conferences, to publish research on the political novel and related topics, to write text portraits for the platform and to disseminate the project’s work to other scholarly communities and to the wider public.

Affiliation

University of Nicosia
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Languages and Literature
Head of Department 

Book author

• Beat Feminisms: Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism (Routledge, 2022)

Books/special issues of journals edited

• Mackay, Polina; Hurtado-Botella, Cristina; Whalley, Joanne ‘Bob’ eds. Medical Objects in Illness Narratives, Special Issue of European Journal of English Studies (Taylor & Francis, 2026, forthcoming)
• Mackay, James; Mackay, Polina eds. Artificial Intelligence, Pornography, and Sex, Special Issue of Porn Studies (Taylor & Francis, 2025, forthcoming).
• Harris, Oliver; Mackay, Polina eds. Global Beats, Special Issue of Comparative Literature and Culture (Purdue University Press, 2016)
• Mackay, Polina; Weidner, Chad eds. The Beat Generation and Europe, Special Issue of Comparative American Studies (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
• Christodoulides, Nephie J.; Mackay, Polina eds. The Cambridge Companion to H.D. (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
• Hadjiafxendi Kyriaki; Mackay, Polina eds. Authorship in Context: from the Theoretical to the Material (Palgrave, 2007).

Memberships and honours

• Vice President of the European Beat Studies Network and Association,
• editor of EBSN Voices,
• member of the advisory board of the European Journal of American Studies,
• member of the management committee of the ENEOLI (European Network of Lexical Innovation) Cost Action.

Contact

Department of Languages and Literature
46 Makedonitissas Avenue, CY-2417
P.O. Box 24005, CY-1700
Nicosia
Cyprus

Email: mackay.p@unic.ac.cy

External links

• https://www.unic.ac.cy/mackay-polina/
• https://pure.unic.ac.cy/en/persons/polina-mackay
• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5234-1742
• https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55835521100
• https://ebsn.eu/about-ebsn/members/polina-mackay/