Degrees:
Post-doctoral degree (habilitacja) – 2017 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University – Psy, koty i ludzie. Zwierzęta domowe w literaturze amerykańskiej [Dogs, Cats and Humans. Companion Animals in American Literature] Lublin, Maria Curie Sklodowska University Press, 2016.
Ph. D. – 2005 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University – In Search of America: The Image of the United States in Travel Writing of the 1980’s and 1990’s.
M.A. – 1996 – Maria Curie-Sklodowska University – Treatment of Key Romantic Concepts in the Nineteenth Century American Nonfiction of Wilderness Exploration
Research interests:
- American travel writing (19th – 20th c.)
- Travel writing and gender
- Representations of Poland (18th – 20th c.) in British and American travel books
- Animal studies
- Companion animals in American literature
Membership in scholarly societies:
- since 1997 – Polish Association for American Studies
- since 2014 – Laboratorium Animal Studies – Trzecia Kultura
Grants and fellowships:
- July 2022 - research grant at the Senate House Library, financed by NAWA Prom Programme
- July-August 2001 - Fulbright American Studies Summer Institute on the United States through Literature w New School University, Nowy York, USA.
- July 2000 - research grant - J. F. Kennedy Institute Library , Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- March- June 1997 - research grant, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden
Major Publications:
- In Search of America. The Image of the United States in Travel Writing of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2006, ss.155.
- „American Travelogue Revisited: Henry Miller's The Air-Conditioned Nightmare” Polish Journal for American Studies Vol. 4 (2010), Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, s. 45- 53.
- „Pielgrzymi i turyści pod niebem Italii. Włoskie wędrówki Henry’ego Jamesa i Marka Twaina.” Wielkie tematy literatury amerykańskiej. T.5 „Podróże, wędrówki, włóczęgi”, red. T. Pyzik, A. Woźniakowska. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice, 2011, 27-41.
- ’Żegnaj Ameryko!’: podróże jako ucieczka i poszukiwanie nowego życia w literaturze amerykańskiej XX w.” Inne bębny: różnica i niezgoda w literaturze i kulturze amerykańskiej, red. E.Antoszek, K. Czerwiec-Dykiel, I. Kimak, Wydawnictwo UMCS, Lublin 2013, s.13-29.
- „’Extended Consciousness:’ the Landscape of Dog-human Relations in Recent American Dog Memoirs.” W: Americascapes: Americans in/and their diverse sceneries, red. E. Bańka, M. Liwiński, K. Rusiłowicz, Wydawnictwo KUL, Lublin 2013, s. 59-68.
- „Sentience, Suffering and Sympathy: Animals in British It-Narratives, 1780-1830” W: From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British literature and culture vol.4 , red. G. Bystydzieńska i E. Harris, Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa 2014, s. 463-470
- "Azjaci czy Europejczycy? Obraz Polski i Polaków w opisie podróży Johna Lloyda Stephensa z 1838 r.” W: Scientia nihil est quam veritatis imago. Studia ofiarowane Profesorowi Ryszardowi Szczygłowi w siedemdziesięciolecie urodzin. Pod red. A. Sochackiej i P. Jusiaka. Wydawnictwo UMCS Lublin 2014. s. 1258-1267.
- “Strangely unknown in England” : Poland in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British travel accounts. John Bull and the Continent, eds. Wojciech Jasiakiewicz, Jakub Lipski. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2015, s. 27-40.
- “Representations of Dogs in Recent Polish Memoirs and Novels”. Free Market Dogs: The Human-Canine Bond in Post-Communist Poland, eds. M. P. Pręgowski, J. Włodarczyk, West Lafayette: Purdue University Press 2016, 107-138.
- “A Dog’s Life”: Pet-Keeping in Canadian and American Animal Autobiographies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Polish Journal of American Studies Vol. 10 (2016) s. 37-48.
- Psy, koty i ludzie. Zwierzęta domowe w literaturze amerykańskiej. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2016, ss. 228.
- “My Lot is Cast in with My Sex and Country”: Generic Conventions, Gender Anxieties and American Identity in Emma Hart Willard’s and Catherine Maria Sedgwick’s Travel Letters. ANGLICA: An International Journal of English Studies 27/1 2018: 51-63.
- “We Stretch Our Limits and Change Our Lives: Interspecies Communication in Contemporary American Pet Memoirs.” Animals and Their People. Connecting East and West in Cultural Animal Studies, eds. Anna Barcz and Dorota Łagodzka. Leiden:Brill 2018. 105-121.
- “Pleasure and Instruction: Generic Conventions in Emma Hart Willard’s Journal and Letters, From France and Great Britain.” Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies 28/1 2019: 49-61.
- "Encounters With the Self: Women’s Travel Experience in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild”, Roczniki Humanistyczne. Anglica, Tom: LXIX, 11, 2021: 97-107
Courses taught:
- American literature survey courses
- Main Issues of American civilization
- BA and MA seminar courses on American travel writing and American short story
Non-academic interests and pastimes:
Travel, gardening, historic fashion, sewing.
