prof. dr hab., he works at the Institute of Literary Studies of the University of Silesia in Katowice. He is engaged in theoretical literary studies, comparative studies, Men’s Studies, genetic criticism and translation of scientific works. He is the author of the following books: Rytm i podmiot w liryce Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza i Aleksandra Wata (Eng. Rhythm and subject in the poetry of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz and Aleksander Wat) (Katowice 1999), Obrazy i wiersze. Z Zagadnień interferencji sztuk w polskiej poezji współczesnej (Eng. Images and poems. From the issues of the interference of arts in Polish contemporary poetry) (Katowice 2004 and 2011), Na marginesach lektury. Szkice teoretyczne (Eng. On the margins of reading. Theoretical sketches) (Katowice 2006), Obrazy i teksty. Interferencje i interpretacje (Eng. Images and texts. Interferences and interpretations) (Katowice 2007). In the National Library series, he published Wybór wierszy (Eng. A selection of poems) by Aleksander Watt (Wrocław 2008). He has published his dissertations in Pamiętnik Literacki, Teksty Drugie, Forum Poetyki, Przestrzenie Teorii, among others. He translated works by Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marc Augé, Clifford Geerz, Raewyn Connell, Daniel Ferrer. He has also published a Polish translation of Gérard Raulet’s book German Philosophy after 1945 (Warsaw 2013). In recent years, he has published Projekt krytyki somatycznej (Eng. Somatic criticism project) (Warsaw 2014), Notatniki Aleksandra Wata (Eng. Notebooks by Alexander Wat) (Warsaw 2015; co-edited with Jan Zieliński) and the Somatic Criticism Project in the English language (Frankfurt am Main 2018). As part of Polish National Science Centre research projects, he managed, among others, the Maestro 4 grant Masculinity in Polish literature and culture from the 19th century to the present day – the project resulted among others in the publication series Studies on Masculinity, published by the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Science Press in Warsaw. He has been and still is a supervisor in the National Science Centre projects Fuga, Preludium. Since 2007, he has been a member of the editorial committee of Pamiętnik Literacki. He was also a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Committee on Literature Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
dr hab. Professor at the University of Lodz, Assistant Professor at the Department of Didactics of Polish Studies and Literature at the Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Lodz. She is interested in contemporary literature, its relations with other arts and the application of various methodological assumptions into school reality. She conducts research on school forms and methods of literary and cultural education in primary and secondary schools. Her own research interests focus on the tradition of Polish Studies didactics in the second half of the 19th century and on the textbook as an educational tool. Author of monographs: Franciszek Próchnicki, dydaktyk – edytor – badacz literatury (Eng. Franciszek Próchnicki, didactician – editor – literary researcher) Lodz 2010 and Tadeusz Czapczyński (1884-1958). Pedagog – literaturoznawca – literat (Eng. Tadeusz Czapczynski (1884-1958). Pedagogue – literary scholar – writer) Lodz 2017.
prof. dr hab., employed at the Department of Theory of Literature of the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University. His research interests include 20th and 21st– century literature, recent literary theories, cultural comparative literature, and intermedia phenomena in contemporary culture. Author of the books: Muzyczność dzieła literackiego (2001, 2002, 2012; edition in English: Musicality of a Literary Work, 2018), Muzyka w literaturze. Perspektywy komparatystyki interdyscyplinarnej (2008, 2012; edition in English: Music in Literature: Perspectives of Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature, 2014), Komparatystyka. Studia literackie – studia kulturowe (2013; edition in English: Comparative Literature: Literary Studies – Cultural Studies, 2018), Skryptoralność. Literatura w dobie społeczeństwa medialnego (Eng. Scriptorality. Literature in the age of media society) (2022); editor of the volume: Muzyka w literaturze. Antologia polskich studiów powojennych (Eng. Music in Literature. An anthology of Polish post-war studies) (2002), co-editor of the volumes: Intersemiotyczność. Literatura wobec innych sztuk (i odwrotnie). Studia (Eng. Intersemiotics. Literature in relation to other arts (and vice versa). Studies) (2004), Dysonanse. Twórczość Stefana Kisielewskiego (Eng. Dissonances. The work of Stefan Kisielewski) (1911–1991) (2011), Transpozycje. Muzyka w nowoczesnej literaturze europejskiej (Eng. Transpositions. Music in modern European literature) (2016), Pasaże Witolda Hulewicza (Eng. Passages by Witold Hulewicz) (2017), Archiwa dyscypliny. Historie i teorie nowoczesnej komparatystyki od Herdera do szkoły amerykańskiej (Eng. Archives of the discipline. Histories and theories of modern comparative literature from Herder to the American school) (2022), Literatura światowa i przekład. Historie i teorie nowoczesnej komparatystyki od szkoły amerykańskiej do biohumanistyki (Eng. World literature and translation. Histories and theories of modern comparative literature from the American school to biohumanities) (2022). He has published studies and dissertations, among others, in: Teksty Drugie, Pamiętnik Literacki, Przestrzenie Teorii, Ruch Literacki, some of which have appeared in English, Bulgarian, French, Italian and Ukrainian. Member of, among others, the Polish Comparative Literature Association (in the Board) and the International Comparative Literature Association (AILC/ICLA). Serves as chair of the Editorial Committee of the publication series Projekty Komparatystyki (Universitas).
born in 1967 in Dębica, editor, author and curator of exhibitions of paintings and diaries of Józef Czapski and painters of his circle. Since 2017, she has been in charge of the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum and the Józef Czapski Pavilion, branches of the National Museum in Kraków. She conducts meetings in the Pavilion within the author’s cycle of meetings Secret freedom (Pl. Swoboda tajemna). She debuted in 1991 in the magazine Dekada Literacka as a literary critic. In 1996-2004, secretary and collaborator of Czesław Miłosz. In 2004-2016, custodian of this Nobel Prize winner’s flat and archive in Kraków. Editor of his works, author of numerous studies of his oeuvre, including the first comprehensive bibliographical study Czesław Miłosz. Bibliografia druków zwartych (Eng. Czesław Miłosz. Bibliography of collected works) (2009); based on manuscripts she has published and compiled the following: Wiersze ostatnie (Eng. Last poems) (2006) and Góry Parnasu. Science-fiction (Eng. Mountains of Parnassus. Science-fiction) (2012) by Miłosz. Her most famous book is entitled: Miłosz w Krakowie (Eng. Miłosz in Kraków)(2015). She has created a website popularising the work and life of the poet: kosinskamiloszwkrakowie.com. Since 1996, she has been researching the archives of writers, painters and other artists. She is particularly interested in the problems of the intertwining of biography, creative silhouette and workshop. More information: kosinskamiloszwkrakowie.com
prof. dr hab., literary scholar; head of the Department of Philological Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bialystok. Her research interests include 20th century Polish literature, subject to interdisciplinary examination in terms of anthropology of cultural boundaries and psychosocial problems in situations of alienation, cultural discourse, methodology and theories in the humanities, as well as documentary studies, journalism, epistolography and history of radio. She has published the following monographs: Wykorzenieni i wygnani. Rzecz o Czesławie Straszewiczu (Eng. The uprooted and the exiled. The story of Czesław Straszewicz) (Kraków 2003), Radio Wolna Europa na emigracyjnych szlakach pisarzy: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Tadeusz Nowakowski, Roman Palester, Czesław Straszewicz, Tymon Terlecki (Eng. Radio Free Europe on the Paths of Writers in Exile: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Tadeusz Nowakowski, Roman Palester, Czesław Straszewicz, Tymon Terlecki) (Kraków 2007) [Award of the Union of Polish Writers Abroad, 2009], Wykluczeni – wychodźstwo, kraj. Studia z antropologii emigracji polskiej XX wieku (idee, osobowości, instytucje) (Eng. The excluded – exile, country. Studies in the anthropology of Polish emigration in the 20th century (ideas, personalities, institutions)) (Białystok 2012) [Award of His Magnificence the Rector of the University of Warsaw in the Academia competition, 2013], Buenos Aires-Gwatemala-Montevideo-Nowy Jork-Paryż. Listy do Jana Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego i innych (Eng. Buenos Aires-Guatemala-Montevideo-New York-Paris. Letters to Jan Nowak-Jeziorański and others) (Białystok 2016, 2018); she edited (together with E. Rogalewska): Paryż-Londyn-Monachium-Nowy Jork. Powrześniowa emigracja niepodległościowa na mapie kultury nie tylko polskiej (Eng. Paris-London-Munich-New York. Post-september independence emigration on the map of Polish culture and beyond) volume I, Białystok 2009, volume II, Białystok 2016, volume III Białystok-Warsaw 2021; she prepared the radio journalism of G. Herling-Grudziński for publication: G. Herling-Grudziński, Recenzje, szkice, rozprawy literackie 1957-1998. Felietony i komentarze z Radia Wolna Europa 1955-1967 (Eng. Reviews, sketches, literary treatises 1957-1998. Radio Free Europe columns and commentaries 1955-1967), vol. 3, edited by W. Bolecki (Kraków 2013), in cooperation with M. Urbanowski she published three volumes of Pisma Czesława Straszewicza (Eng. Writings of Czesław Straszewicz) (Kraków 2020-22) and (in cooperation with L. Dzierżanowski, B. Bolesławska-Lewandowska, I. Lindstedt, A. Zaguła) Pisma Romana Palestra (Eng. Writings of Roman Palester) (Kraków 2021-22).
