In her most recent project, Anticlimax: The Multilingual Novel at the Turn of the Millennium, Matylda Figlerowicz proposes to redefine multilingualism within literary studies—as a mode of critique, and a way of understanding world literature as a theoretical perspective. She analyzes novels written by authors from territories marked by the dominant presence of Spanish––Latin America, Spain, and Equatorial Guinea––published in the last three decades (1990-2022). While all these novels can be considered multilingual, each of them is written primarily in one of the many languages used in the regions in question: Basque, Catalan, Galician, Yucatecan Mayan, Nahuatl, Quechua, or Spanish. 

Her first book, La memoria en construcción. La experiencia dictatorial franquista y comunista en las literaturas catalana, española y polaca, offers a comparative study of Catalan, Spanish, and Polish literatures of the 1960s (of works by e.g. Mercè Rodoreda, Pere Calders, Miguel Delibes, and Stanisław Lem). It explores strategies of constructing memory in the context of linguistic conflicts, political oppression, and exile, while conceptualizing memory through the lenses of queer theory and affect studies. The book was awarded the Fundació Mercè Rodoreda Prize in 2015.

Her upcoming project is dedicated to the life and work Luz Jiménez, a central Nahua intellectual and cultural figure, most often known as “the most painted woman of Mexico.” The project analyzes the visual material—the artworks where Jiménez is represented, together with the texts she authored. Some of the ideas the study revolves around are sketched out in the essay “The Self-Fashioning of Luz Jiménez”/ “La formación de la imagen de Luz Jiménez,” published in ReVista. https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/the-self-fashioning-of-luz-jimenez/