EDUCATION
2002 Ph. D. in English Literature, Faculty of Languages, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
1997 M.A. In English. Faculty of Modern Languages, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
EMPLOYMENT
2002 – Associate Professor at the Institute of Modern Languages, Pedagogical University, Kraków, Poland.
SELECT RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
2016
“Perverts to Rome: Protestant gender roles and the abjection of Catholicism”. Victorian Literature and Culture 22 (3): 687 – 723.
“The effeminacy of Catholicism in its Victorian literary depictions.” Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Anglica. Vol. 6, pp. 71-79
Book chapters
2018
“Perverts to Rome: novelistic depictions of Victorian donversions to Catholicism”. Ways to Religion vol 2. Eds, Aleksandra Knapik et al. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Filologicznej. Pp. 77 – 88.
2017
“Turrets and trapdoors: haunted spaces of Catholicism.” Gothic, Sensation, Detection : in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture. Grażyna Bystydzieńska. Warszawa: Pracownia “Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich”, pp. 29 – 38.
2016
“George Borrow: The Scholar, the Gipsy, the Priest”. Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon. D. Downes, T. Ferguson. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 71 – 86.
“Are Protestantism and art incompatible? The attitudes to religious art in Victorian literature”. Things and Images in 18th and 19th c. British Literature. Ed. Grażyna Bystydzieńska. Warszawa: Pracownia “Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich”, pp. 197 – 205.
“Marriage plot and Jesuit plotting: the use of romance in conversion narratives”. From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria : Readings in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture. Vol. 5. Eds. Grażyna Bystydzieńska and Emma Harris. Warszawa: Pracownia “Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich”. pp. 295 – 302.
Books
2017 The Unknown Relatives: The Catholic as the Other in Victorian Literature. New York: Routledge (forthcoming)
RECENT CONFERENCES
Papers presented
2018
‘”A Cockney in Ireland”: Thackeray’s The Irish Sketch-Book and the patterns of confronting the Catholic Other.” Annual Conference of British Association for Victorian Studies, Exeter.
2017
‘“King Charles’s head”: The Vision of 17th c. England in Victorian Literature’. April Conference Fourteen “New Perspectives in English and American Studies”, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków.2018
“’Did Guy Fawkes ever live?’: the evolving perspectives on the figure of Guy Fawkes in Victorian literature.” Conference “From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria”, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa and Annual Conference of British Association for Victorian Studies, Lincoln.
2016
“Turrets and trapdoors: haunted spaces of Catholicsm”. 5th Warsaw Literary Meeting, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa.
“Are Protestantism and art incompatible? The attitudes to religious art in Victorian literature”. 4th Warsaw Literary Meeting, Warsaw University. 20 May.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
My Ph.D was on the myth of the Golden Age in Victorian and Edwardian children’s literature. After completing my Ph.D I became interested in the issues of religion in Victorian literature and in particular the depictions of Catholicism in England written at this time, when Catholics were granted almost all civil rights, but still remained a small and traditionally distrusted minority. My research interests are reflected in the titles of my publications and also in my post-doctoral book project titled Unknown Relatives: The Catholic as ‘the Other’ in Victorian Literature. On the basis of the book I received my post-doctoral title (“habilitacja” in the Polish academic system) in 2018. My current research interest concentrate around Victorian historical narratives, particularly those connected with the 17th century and the Stuarts.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture.
British Association for Victorian Studies.