Faculty

 

 

Dr habil. Sławomir Wącior – Head of Department

 

Fields of interest: the history of literatures in English; theory of literature; Anglo-American modernist poetry; Imagism; metaphysical poetry of the XVIIth century; the poetry of Thomas Traherne.

Current research: the generic study of the development of the sonnet in English; contemporary forms of poetic representation; the interaction between poetry and the visual arts.

International cooperation: Traherne Association, UK.

Webpage: https://pracownik.kul.pl/slawomir.wacior

Contact: slawomir.wacior[at]kul.pl

 

 

Dr habil. Barbara Klonowska

Fields of interest: contemporary British novel, genology (magical realism, romance, historical novel), utopian studies, film narratives
Current research: utopian narratives in film, contemporary Australian novel
International cooperation: Utopian Study Society – Europe, Polish Society for the Study of Australia and New Zealand
Webpage: https://pracownik.kul.pl/barbara.klonowska
Contact: barbara.klonowska[at]kul.pl


Dr habil. Joanna Klara Teske

Fields of interest: contemporary English-language novel; cognitive literary studies (esp. the phenomenon of mindreading); postclassical narratology
Current research: mindreading: theory of theory, simulation theory and interaction theory applied in the context of the readerly experience of fiction; consonant and dissonant narrators
Webpage: https://pracownik.kul.pl/joanna.teske
Contact: joanna.teske[at]kul.pl

Tomasz Niedokos, PhD

 

Fields of interest: life and work of Peter Ackroyd, English Christian apology, life and work of G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis, British media

Current research: English Christian apology in the works of G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis and H. Belloc

International cooperation: The European Society for the Study of English

Webpage: https://pracownik.kul.pl/tomasz.niedokos 

Contact: tomasz.niedokos[at]kul.pl

 

 

Anna Antonowicz, PhD

Fields of interest: the visual and material history of Great Britain; national identity in modern British society; aesthetics of Victorian and Modernist periods: fashion, taste, kitsch, modernity; art policy and museum practice; avantgarde, subculture and the other; ideologies of modernity in film
Current research: modernity in and of 19th-century design and dress
Webpage: http://pracownik.kul.pl/anna.antonowicz
Contact: anna.antonowicz[at]kul.pl

 

 

Magdalena Sawa, PhD

Fields of interest: life and work of Gabriel Josipovici; narratology, intermediality, art in literature, affect studies, emotions and affect in literature
Current research: affect and the body in the novels of Gabriel Josipovici
Webpage: https://pracownik.kul.pl/magdalena.sawa
Contact: magdalena.sawa[at]kul.pl

 

 

Łukasz Borowiec, PhD

 

Fields of interest: life and work of Harold Pinter; English-language drama and theatre in the second half of the 20th century; theatre/drama translation; English-language and Polish radio drama; digital humanities and drama/theatre

Current research: English-language drama and theatre from the second half of the 20th c. in Polish theatre and Polish theatre archives

International cooperation: The International Harold Pinter Society

Webpage: https://pracownik.kul.pl/lukasz.borowiec

Contact: lukasz.borowiec[at]kul.pl