Aleksander Fiut (born 24 June 1945) is a Polish literary historian, literary critic and essayist who researched the works of Wilhelm Mach and Czesà Âaw Mià Âosz, among others.
Son of the civil servant Wà Âadysà Âaw Fiut and Jadwiga née Jakubiec. Between 1959 and 1963, he attended the Nicolaus Copernicus Grammar School in à »ywiec. Later he studied Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University (UJ) in Kraków and graduated with a master's degree in 1968. He started working at Kraków's public library (Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna). In 1974, he defended his doctoral thesis Twórczoà Âàprozatorska Wilhelma Macha (Wilhelm Mach's Prose Works), which was supervised by . In 1987 he obtained a habilitation degree for his study Moment wieczny. O poezji Czesà Âawa Mià Âosza (translated into English as The Eternal Moment: The Poetry of Czesà Âaw Mià Âosz).
In 1996, he was made a state appointed professor and associate professor at the Jagiellonian University. Between 1997 and 2015, he held the Chair of Twentieth-Century Polish Literature at the Institute (from 2004 Faculty) of Polish Studies at UJ.
His research interests include contemporary Polish literature, Central European literature, with emphasis on the intersection of literature and sociology, anthropology and social psychology. He supervised three doctoral dissertations.
He was a member of the Polish Writers Association until August 2020. He was a founding member of the Czesà Âaw Mià Âosz Birthplace Foundation (Fundacja Miejsc Rodzinnych Czesà Âawa Mià Âosza), which was established in 1997 at the University of Kaunas in Lithuania.
He became a member of the Slavic Culture Commission and the Literary History Commission of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a member of the Program Council of the Mià Âosz Institute at Claremont McKenna College.