University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland (UWM)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2603-751X

2012   PhD in Literary Studies, granted cum laude by University of Gdańsk

PhD dissertation "The Literary Machine: The Principle of Tension in the Short Stories of H. G. Wells"

1996 MA in English Studies, University of Gdańsk

MA dissertation "The Aesthetic Topography of Wessex: Spatial Motifs in The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy"

selected activities:

2022-present member of the Scientific Council for the Discipline of Literary Studies UWM

2019-present supporting member of the Communication Ethics Group at the I Faculty of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU)

2016-2019 member of the Word Ethics Group at the Council for the Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)

2022-present editorial secretary of the scholarly journal Acta Neophilologica (ISSN 1509-1619, e-ISSN 2450-0852), biannual publication in the disciplines of English, German, Russian and Polish literary and language studies

2016-present member of Association for Scottish Literary Studies

2016-2019 member of International Committee of ASLS, Association for Scottish Literary Studies

2016-present member of European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR)

2022-2024 Faculty Advisor for Psychological Support, Faculty of Humanities UWM

2013-present founder and academic advisor of the student scholarly circle „Anglo-Cooltura Juniors"

selected fellowships:

17 Jan. 2016-27 Feb. 2016 Bednarowski Trust Fellowship - research internship at the University of Aberdeen, the University of Highlands and Islands in Kirkwall, and the University of Glasgow, UK: commencement of research into the storytelling techniques of George Mackay Brown, and his reception in Scotland.

13-19 Apr. 2016 Bednarowski Trust Fellowship - research internship at the Nordic Studies Centre, Kirkwall, University of Highlands and Islands, UK: Continuation of research on the works of George Mackay Brown and on his reception in Scotland.

3-7 Feb. 2020 Erasmus+ teaching internship at Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava, Latvia: 8 hours of teaching Scottish and Orkney literature and culture.

3-17 Dec. 2021 research fellowship at the  University of Cambridge, UK, library research and academic consultations with Faculty of English professors.

08-29 Jan. 2023 research and teaching visiting fellowship at New College, University of Edinburgh, UK: 6 hours of teaching at the University of Edinburgh and commencement of research on the manuscripts of George Mackay'a Brown in Heritage Collections of University of Edinburgh Library.

09-17 Dec. 2023 Visiting Fellowship at New College, University of Edinburgh, UK: continuation of research on the manuscripts of George Mackay'a Brown in Heritage Collections of University of Edinburgh Library.

selected invited academic lectures:

"The Literature of the Orkney Islands. George Mackay Brown and Others" University of Warsaw, 24 Nov. 2016.

"The Timeless Exigencies of Modern Storytelling. Palimpsests of Narrativity Ingrained in the Human Brain, Literature and Culture", Faculty of Management Research Workshop, Bayes Business School, London, UK 18 Nov. 2021.

"Sanctity as a Story", New College, University of Edinburgh, UK,  24 Jan. 2023.

research interest:

• post-classical and post-formal literary studies, cognitive narratology, phenomenology in literature,
• poetics of literary and non-literary texts, poetics of storytelling
• genre theories, evolution of narrative forms, theory of literary short story
• self-referentiality and aesthetic patterns in prose fiction
• storytelling in various media
• voice in texts, dialogic patterns and polyphony, evocalization in prose
• evolution of conventions: fairy tale, the fantastic, scientific romance, fantasy, science fiction
• evolution of English popular literature
• literary time and space as aesthetic patterns
• George Mackay Brown, H.G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, John Berger, Ian McEwan, Franciszka and Stefan Themersons, Bertrand Russell
• saints and sanctity in literature
• poetics of prayer
• blue humanities, islands in literature and culture

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOK

1. H. G. Wells: The Literary Traveller in His Fantastic Short Story Machine. Peter Lang, 2016.

EDITED BOOKS and journal issues

1. Old and New Mixed Together. Communication and Culture in the New Media Era, edited by  Urszula Doliwa and Halszka Leleń, University of Warmia and Mazury Press, 2016.
2. Święci i świętość w języku, literaturze i kulturze [Saints and sanctity in language, literature and culture], edited by Halszka Leleń and Tomasz Żurawlew, Universitas, 2018.
3. Sanctity as a Story: Narrative (In)variants of the Saint in Literature and Culture across the Centuries, edited by Halszka Leleń, vol. 17 of series "Mediated Fictions: Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives", Peter Lang, 2020.
4. Narrative in Advertising, special issue of journal Media, Business, Culture 2 (13), 2022, edited by Halszka Leleń and Monika Przybysz.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals (most recent first):

1. "The Disharmony of the World and Poetic Inquiry into Truth in the Lyrics of George Mackay Brown" [in Polish], Ethos 37.2 (146), 2024.
2. "Littoral Impressionism in The Wreck of the Archangel by George Mackay Brown". Acta Neophilologica 1 (25), 2023-06, pp. 99-115.
3. "Communicative Anosmia and Poetics of Storytelling in Perfume Commercials", Media - Business - Culture 13 (2), 2022-12, pp. 27-41.
4. "George Mackay Brown as a Catholic Bard of Archipelagic Identities,"  [in Polish], Nowy Napis Co Tydzień 175, 2022, pp. 1-6.
5. "Soundscapes, Evocalization and Poetics of the Everyday in An Epiphany Tale by George Mackay Brown", Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 11 (1-2), 2021, pp. 145-160.
6. "Orcadian Poetics of Hope: Lyrical Dimensions and (Ex)tensions of the Topos in the Poetry of George Mackay Brown", Ethos 32.4 (128), 2019, pp. 157-180.
7. "Experimenting with Historiographic Narrative and Guidebook Style in And Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown". Annals of Arts 67 (11), 2019, pp. 95-108.
8. "A harper went here and there with his songs": Modern Reworking of Northern Narrative Tradition in Vinland by George Mackay Brown. Tekstualia 1 (4), 2018, pp. 19-33.
9. "The Ambiguous Identity of a Dog as a Mongrelized Storyteller in John Berger's King (1999)". Analyses Rereadings Theories Journal 3 (1), 2015.
10. "Structuring Uncertainty: An Attempt at Reading H.G. Wells' The Apple", Acta Neophilologica 3, 2001, pp. 209-220.
11. "Quasi-Documentary Aspects of the Fictional Space in The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy". Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching 1 (1), 1999, pp. 101-122.

chapters in multi-author monographs (most recent first):

1. (in press) "Narrative Celebrations of Femininity in the Short Stories of George Mackay Brown", [w:] His Stories and Her Stories, red. Andrew Jennings, Brepols 2025.
2. "Literary Aspects of Women's Voices in The Sea-King's Daughter by George Mackay Brown", [in Polish], Kobieta w literaturze, sztuce i muzyce - ujęcie interdyscyplinarne, vol. 3, edited by Ewelina Chodźko and Paulina Pomajda, Tygiel, 2022, pp. 99-122.
3. "The 'Intersecting lines' and 'Co-ordinate points': Lyrical Ways of Making Connections in Homecoming by Alan Riach", Between Cultures, Between Languages. Essays in Honour of Professor Aniela Korzeniowska, edited by Izabela Szymańska and Agnieszka Piskorska, Semper, 2020, pp. 228-248.
4. "Narrative Displacement and Paradigms of Sanctity in Selected Short Stories of George Mackay Brown", Sanctity as a Story: Narrative (In)Variants of the Saint, vol. 17 of the series Mediated Fictions: Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives, edited by Halszka Leleń, Peter Lang, 2020, pp. 59-84.
5. "Introduction", Sanctity as a Story: Narrative (In)Variants of the Saint, vol. 17 of the series Mediated Fictions: Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives, edited by Halszka Leleń, Peter Lang,  2020, pp. 9-22.
6. "Sanctity as a Story? Preliminary Remarks on the Narrative Aspects of Sanctity", Sanctity as a Story: Narrative (In)Variants of the Saint, volume 17 of the series Mediated Fictions: Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives, edited by Halszka Leleń, Peter Lang 2020, pp. 25-40.
7. "Pointing the Way 'Far beyond': A Few Thoughts on Professor Andrzej Zgorzelski", [in Polish] edited by O.W. Kubińscy and L.A. Blaim, Fundacja Terytoria Książki 2019, pp. 158-174.
8. "Axiological Semantics and the Discourse of the Literary Periphery in Selected Orkney Poetry", Polish Scholars on Scottish Writers: An Interpretative Collage, edited by Aniela Korzeniowska and Izabela Szymańska, Semper 2018, pp. 68-88.
9. "A Few Remarks on the Category of Sanctity from the Perspective of the Humanities. A Research Reconnaissance," [in Polish], Święci i Świętość w Języku, Literaturze i Kulturze, edited by Halszka Leleń and T. Żurawlew, Universitas, Kraków 2018, str. 9-26.
10. "The Unholiness of the Smallest Things and the Axiological Poetics of Everyday Life in Seal Islands Anthology by George Mackay Brown", Święci i Świętość w Języku, Literaturze i Kulturze, edited by Halszka Leleń and Tomasz Żurawlew, Universitas, 2018, pp. 311-330.
11. "Dia-Logos and Antinomy in Unexalted Aspiration Prayers (2014) by Andrzej Zgorzelski", [in Polish], Literaturoznawca literatem czyli rzecz o akademii i kreatywnym pisaniu, edited by Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim, University of Gdańsk Press, 2018, pp. 251-263.
12. "Exploring Identity through the Melancholic Muse and Nostalgic Narrative in The Storm and Fishermen with Ploughs by George Mackay Brown", Imaging Scottishness: European and Domestic Representations, edited by A. Korzeniowska, and I. Szymańska, Semper, 2017, pp. 285-303.
13. "'The goings-on inside the house' and Figurative Use of Fairy-Tale Characters in Keepers of the House" by George Mackay Brown", Baśniowe i mityczne inspiracje humanistów, vol.8, edited by I. Borys, and M. Zaorska, Katedra UNESCO UWM, 2016, pp. 94-104.
14. "A Few Reflections on Centrality of Artefact in Roman Polanski's Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958)", Old and New Mixed Together. Communication and Culture in the New Media Era, edited by Urszula Doliwa and Halszka Leleń, University of Warmia and Mazury Press, 2016, pp. 131-144.
15. "Character Sketch and its Fantastic Transformations: H. G. Wells's 'The Crystal Egg'", Characters in Literary Fictions, edited by Jadwiga Węgrodzka, Peter Lang, 2015, pp. 153-162.
16. "Avant-garde Conventions Developed by the Themersons in Mr Rouse Builds His House", Muses, Mistresses and Mates: Creative Collaborations in Literature, Art and Life, edited by Izabella Penier and Anna Suwalska-Kołecka, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 13-25.
17. "Apocalyptic Visions of the End of the World in the Fiction of H. G. Wells", Imaginationen des Endes, edited by Aneta Jachimowicz, Aniela Kuzborska and D. H. Steinhoff, Peter Lang, 2015, pp. 113-130.
18. "Medieval Tradition and Eschatological Perspective in 'Under the Knife' by H. G. Wells", Unbraiding the Short Story, edited by M. A. Lee i A. Penn, Create Space Printing, San Bernardino CA 2015, pp. 93-102.
19. "Semiotics of Archipelago in George Mackay Brown's Narratives", Boundless Scotland. Space in Contemporary Scottish Fiction, edited by Monika Szuba, Gdańsk University Press, 2015, pp. 137-154.
20. "The Subversion of Citizenship and Education in Bertrand Russell's Alphabet", [w:] Innovative Practice and Research Trends in Identity, Citizenship and Education, red. P. Cunningham & N. Fretwell, CiCe, London 2014, str. 32-42.
21. "'Do you read fables? Modern ones?' Fable and Fairy-Tale Strategies in Early Scientific Romances of H. G. Wells", Bajkowe fascynacje humanistów, vol. 4, edited by Magdalena Zaorska and Adam Grabowski, Katedra UNESCO UWM, 2014, pp. 175-191.
22. "The Fantastic as a Technique of Redynamizing Mimetic Fiction", Basic Categories of Fantastic Literature Revisited, edited by Andrzej  Wicher, Piotr Spyra and Joanna Matyjaszczyk, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, pp. 8-24.
23. "Post-Dickensian Style of Literary Portraiture in the Mimetic Fiction of 'a Nawther' H. G. Wells", Reflections on / of Dickens, edited by Ewa Kujawska-Lis and Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, pp. 182-195.
24. "Text as a Net: On Literary Metaphors in Fantastic Sort Stories by H.G. Wells", [in Polish], Metafory i amalgamaty pojęciowe, vol. 4, Nowe zjawiska w języku, tekście i komunikacji, edited by Monika Cichmińska and Iza Matusiak-Kempa. Instytut Filologii Polskiej UWM, 2012, pp. 105-116.
25. "Fictionality of Space Motifs in Three Wessex Novels". PASE Papers in Literature and Culture, edited by Joanna Burzyńska and Danuta Stanulewicz, Gdańsk University Press, 2003, pp. 229-235.
26. "The Birth of a Genre?: 'The Valley of Spiders' by H.G. Wells". Conventions and Texts, edited by. Andrzej Zgorzelski, Gdańsk University Press, 2003, pp. 242-261.
27. "The Fictional Space and Visual Arts in Three Wessex Novels". Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English. PASE Papers in Culture and Literature, edited by Władysław Witalisz and Petera Leese, Instytut FA, Jagielonian Universtity, 2002, pp. 195-200.
28. "Unfulfilled Horizon of Expectations in 'The Apple' by H.G. Wells" [in Polish], Paradoksy humanistyki. Księga pamiątkowa ku czci Profesora Andrzeja Zgorzelskiego, edited by Ola Kubińska and David Malcolm, Gdańsk University Press, 2001, pp. 231-241.
29. "Teaching Practical English and Literature to Tempus Students at WSP in Olsztyn", with Przemysław Chudy and Anna Strzelecka, Two Subject Teacher Training: Principles and Practice, edited by M. Misztal and J. Pawłowska. Wydawnictwo Naukowe AP, 1999, pp. 67-77.

PAPERS WAAT CONFERENCES  (a total of 47)

papers at international conferences (from the most recent):

1.  "Archipelagic Storytelling in the Local-Press Essays of George Mackay Brown", 3^rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (online) 24 June 2022.
2. "Narrative Representation of Female Characters in Selected Short Stories of George Mackay Brown" 5^th International St Magnus Conference, University of Highlands and Islands, Shetland Islands, UK (online) 14-15 May 2021.
3. Evocalization, Embodied Subject and the Ambiguities of Sensory Perception in 'An Epiphany Tale' by George Mackay Brown". International Conference "More than Meets the Ear: Sound and Short Fiction", University of Vienna, Austria. 19-21 Sep. 2019.
4. "Poetics of Garbage and Fragmentation in John Berger's Fiction", International Conference "Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English", University of Zaragoza, Spain. 26-28 Apr. 2017.
5. "Transgressing the Local through Dialogic Glocality and Temporal Displacement in George Mackay Brown's Writing", 2^nd World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Dialogues and Diasporas, Vancouver, Canada. 20-24 June 2017.
6. "The Sea Smells and Community Clamours. Poeticizing the North through Aesthetics of Sensory Perception in The Wreck of the Archangel (1989) by George Mackay Brown", 3^rd International St. Magnus Conference Visualising the North, University of Highlands and Islands, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, UK. 15 Apr. 2016.
7. "Grand-Scale Perspective in the Fantastic Short Stories of H. G. Wells", 13^th International Conference on the Short Story in English "Unbraiding the Short Story". Juridicum, University of Vienna, Austria. 16-19 June 2014.
8. "'As if the real was a mere veil to the fantastic': The Subversive Dynamics of the Fantastic in H. G. Wells's Short Stories", International H.G. Wells Society Conference "H.G. Wells: New Directions", Conway Hall, Londyn, UK, 23 Sep. 2006.

1. "Literary Voice and Vision. Aesthetics of Phono-Narrative Patterns in Literary Communication", International Conference "Aesthetics in Communication and Aesthetic Communication: Functions, Forms, Contexts", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, online, 23-26 June 2021.
2. Lyrical (Re)Visions of Family and Dignity of Human Being in Selected Poetry of Wojtyła, Brandstaetter, Mackay Brown and Heaney", 5^th International Symposium of Familiology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, online, 13-14 May 2021.
3. "Narrative Identity and the Issue of Intersubjectivity in Vinland by George Mackay Brown", 7^th International Interdisciplinary Conference "Subject: Identity, Consciousness, Independence" Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, 18-19 Oct. 2018.
4. "The 'Intersecting lines' and 'Co-ordinate points': Lyrical Ways of Making Connections in Homecoming by Alan Riach", 4^th International Conference "Scotland in Europe", University of Warsaw 26-28 Sep. 2018.
5. "Experimenting with Historiographic Narrative in An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown", International Conference TEPEN "Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Events and Narrative in Language",  University of Łódź, 11-12 May 2018.
6. "Axiological Semantics in the Discourse of the Literary Periphery on the Example of Selected Orkney Poetry", International Conference "Values and Valuation in Contemporary Humanities: Philosophical, Linguistic, and Communicative Perspectives", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn 17-18 Nov. 2016.
7. "The Archipelagic Muse and (Is)Land Topos in Poetry of the Scottish Islands", 3^rd International Conference "Scotland in Europe", University of Warsaw 23-25 Sep. 2016.
8. "'Fan I wis last in Aleppo': Scottish and European Tradition of Storytelling in David Malcolm's 'The Wizard Laird of Skene' (2013)", International Conference :Pictures from an Institution: Academy Across Time and Media", University of Gdańsk, 3 Oct. 2015.
9. "'Go good my songs, be as gay as you can': Melancholic Muse and Nostalgic Narrative in the Selected Poems of George Mackay Brown, 4^th International Interdisciplinary Conference "Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia", University of Gdańsk 17-18 Sep. 2015.
10. "Semiotics of Space in George Mackay Brown's Literary Texts", International Conference "Place and Space in Scottish Literature and Culture", Between Foundation, Sopot, 8-10 Oct. 2015.
11. "Figurative Storytelling: Magical Guardians, Family Matters and Poetics of Space in Keepers of the House by George Mackay Brown illustrated by Guillian Martin", 4^th International Interdisciplinary Conference "Fairy Tale, Folktale, Legend, Myth: The Magical Element of Literary Texts", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 12-13 June 2015.
12. "The Topos of the Writer in Crisis in George Mackay Brown's Selected Fiction", 2^nd International Conference "Scotland in Europe", University of Warsaw, Kazimierz Dolny, 15-17 Oct. 2014.
13. "Subversion of Citizenship and Education in Bertrand Russell's Alphabet". International Conference Innovative Practice and Research Trends in Identity, Citizenship and Education: "Children's Identity and Citizenship in Europe" (CiCe) Conference, London Metropolitan University, CiCe Erasmus Academic Network, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn 12-14 June 2014.
14. "The End of the World as a Literary Game in the Short Stories of H. G. Wells". International Conference of Literary Studies "Imaginationen des Endes", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 08-09 May 2014.
15. "'Do you read fables? Modern ones?' Fable and Fairy-Tale Strategies in Early Scientific Romance of H. G. Wells", 3^rd International Interdisciplinary Conference "Fairy Tale in the Scientific and Educational Space. Fairy Tales of the World", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 7 June 2013.
16. "Berger Between the Lines: What is Refuted in 'Boris is Buying Horses'", International Conference "1983: Coetzee, Swift, Berger and More", Between Foundation, Sopot, 13-19 May 2013.
17. "Post-Dickensian Style of Literary Portraiture in Mimetic Fiction of H. G. Wells", International Conference: "Reflections on/of Dickens", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 11-13 Apr. 2013.
18. "Aesthetic Dimensions of Time Travel in H. G. Wells's Short Stories", 8^th Literature in English Symposium "Of What is Past, or Passing, or to Come: Travelling in Time and Space in Literature in English", Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 13 May 2012.

1. "Dream Vision and Other Cross-genre Influences in the Short Fiction of H.G. Wells", 9^th National Conference "Between Wor(l)ds: Translation and Transformation in Language, Culture and Literature", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 24-25 Apr. 2025.
2. "A Lunar Burlesque by H.G. Wells The First Men in the Moon and its Educational Potential" [paper in Polish],  3^rd  Literary Studies Symposium "The Third Mission", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. 13 Dec. 2024.
3. "From Earth to the Moon: Visionaries of the Cosmic Era: H. G. Wells" [paper in Polish], 4^th Futurology Congress in Cracow, Polish Foundation of Science Fiction, Cracow 14 Sep. 2024.
4. "Orality, Lyricism, and Dramatic Elements in Relation to the Function of Voice Patterns in the Works of George Mackay Brown" [paper in Polish], 2^nd Literary Studies Symposium, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 1 Dec. 2023.
5. "George Mackay Brown and his Problematic Place in the Scottish and British Canon: Some thoughts on the Chances of Literature from the Peripheries" [paper in Polish], 1^st Literary Studies Symposium, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. 25 Nov. 2022.
6. "Tales of Community and the Issue of Truth in the Poetry of George Mackay Brown" [paper in Polish], Polish Academy of Sciences Conference "Truth in Cultural Texts". 29 Sep. 2020.
7. "Fantastic Short Stories of George Mackay Brown", Conference "The Fantastic, Utopia, Science-Fiction: Prof. Andrzej Zgorzelski in Memoriam". Catholic University of Lublin, 27-28 Oct. 2019.
8. "Narrative Strategies and the Image of Man in Vinland  by George Mackay Brown [paper in Polish], National Scientific Conference "Literary Homo Loquens", University of Warsaw 28-29 Sep. 2018.
9. "Narrative Paradigms of Sanctity in Goerge Mackay Brown's Short Stories", Scientific Conference with International Guests "Saints and Sanctity in Language, Literature and Culture", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn 18-20 Oct. 2017.
10. "Poetic Transposition of Ophelia's Story in Elizabeth Burns's Poem", National Conference "Old Masters in New Interpretations: Rediscovering Shakespeare", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn 27-28 Oct. 2016.
11. "Dia-Logos and Antinomy in Unexalted Aspiration Prayers (2014) by Andrzej Zgorzelski" [paper in Polish], National Conference "The Literary Scholar as a Writer: Artistic Creations of Humanities Professors", University of Gdańsk, 4 Oct. 2015.
12. "The Avant-Garde Sources of Roman Polański's Two Men and a Wardrobe". National Conference "Old Media in the New Media Era: Adjustment Strategies of Traditional Media to the New Media Reality", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 2-3 June 2014.
13. "'The word transfigures all': Storytelling Through Space and Time in The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories by George Mackay Brown". Conference "New Beginnings in Scottish Literature" Sopot, 14-16 May 2014.
14. "Scottish Literature Through the Ages: George Mackay Brown and his Orkney Short Stories", Cultural and Academic Session "Scottish Day at UWM", Olsztyn. 10 Apr. 2014.
15. "Mr Rouse Builds His House as Amalgamate of Avant-Garde Conventions Developed by The Themersons". Conference "Muses, Mistresses and Wives: Great Women in the Shadow of Great Men",  Płock, 19-20 Oct. 2013.
16. "'A sheet gathered by the corners': Levels of Literary Metaphors in Selected Short Stories by H.G. Wells", 4^th Conference "New Phenomena in Language, Text, and Communication: Metaphors and Conceptual Blends", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 11-12 May 2012.
17. "Fantastic Transformations of the Character Sketch in H.G. Wells's Short Story 'The Crystal Egg'", Scientific Symposium "Structuring Literary Characters", University of Gdańsk, 12-14 Apr. 2012.
18. "The Birth of a Genre?: 'The Valley of Spiders' by H. G. Wells", Scientific Symposium "Conventions and Texts", University of Gdańsk, 20 Sep. 2001.
19. "The Fictional Space and Visual Arts in Three Wessex Novels", 10^th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Cracow, 04.2001.
20. "Fictionality of Space Motifs in Three Wessex Novels", 9^th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Gdańsk, 04.2000.
21. "Teaching Practical English and Literature to Tempus Students at WSP in Olsztyn", coauthors Przemysław Chudy and Anna Drogosz, Two-Subject Teacher Training: Principles and Practice, Duet TEMPUS. Pedagogical University in Cracow, 18 Apr. 1999.

co-organised conferences:

1. member of the organising committee of the 9^th National Conference "Between Wor(l)ds: Translation and Transformation in Language, Culture and Literature", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 24-25 Apr. 2025.
2. member of the scientific committee of the 31^st Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English "Communicative 3Ms: Modes, Mediums, Modalities", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 30 June - 02 July 2023.
3. co-organiser (together with dr T. Żurawlew) of the Interdisciplinary Conference "Saints and Sanctity in Language, Literature and Culture, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 18-20 Oct. 2017.
4. member of the organising committee of the 7^th International Interdisciplinary Conference "Subject: Identity, Consciousness, Independence", UKSW Warszawa 18-19 Oct. 2018.
5. member of the organising committee of the 16^th CiCe Network Conference "Innovative Practice and Research Trends in Identity, Citizenship and Education", University of Warmia and Mazury, in cooperation with London Metropolitan University, and CiCea European Association, Olsztyn 12-14 June 2014.
6. member of the organising committee of the Media Studies Conference "Old Media in the New Media Era: Adjustment Strategies of the Traditional Media to the New Media Reality", University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 02-03 June 2014.

selected subjects taught:

• introduction to literary studies
• storytelling and literary studies
• narrative patterns and urban space(s)
• storytelling in literature and culture
• urban space in literary studies
• methodology of literary studies
• history of English literature
• literature in teaching
• MA and BA seminars

awards:

2016 Rector's of UWM award: second degree individual award for scholarly achievements

2023 Rector's of UWM award for organizational activity

2022 Rector's of UWM award for 25 years of work

2021 Rector's of UWM award for organizational activity