Adam Zygmunt, MA, is a PhD student of literary studies in the Doctoral School of Humanities at the University of Warsaw. He completed his BA and MA studies in the Institute of Western and Southern Slavistics at the University of Warsaw, majoring in Bohemian studies. His PhD project, under the supervision of Prof. Marcin Filipowicz, concentrates on representations of the impact of the capitalist system on space in contemporary Czech literature. His academic research interests are critique of ideology, spacial anthropology, contemporary capitalism, contemporary Czech literature and 20th-century history.