Bartłomiej Kunda is the coordinating manager in the CLS INFRA project as well as a researcher at the Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on literary masculinities studies, especially investigating the phenomenon of male failure and male practices of acting in the face of it.  His current PhD research project is: “Literary strategies of masculinities in the face of failure in contemporary American prose”. He has a background in cognitive science, philosophy and litarary criticism, and is also interested in literary theory – mostly at the intersection of feminist and queer theories. Email: bartlomiej.kunda[@]ijp.pan.pl. For more: https://ijp.pan.pl/en/pracownicy/bartlomiej-kunda/