Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

Anna Czarnowus

anna.czarnowus@us.edu.pl

ORCID: 0000-0003-2832-1351

https://silesian.academia.edu/AnnaCzarnowus

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna-Czarnowus

DEGREES:

2014 D.Litt. in literary studies; Habilitationschrift title: Fantasies of the Other’s Body in Middle English Oriental Romance

2005 PhD in literary studies from the Comparative Literature Department, University of Silesia (Katowice); dissertation title: Representations of the Figure of a Monstrous Child in Middle English Literature (highly commended for publication)

2001 MA from the Department of English, University of Silesia (Katowice); thesis title: Motherhood and Paternity in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

-global and colonial medievalisms

-Middle English literature

-the history of emotions

Najważniejsze publikacje:

MONOGRAPHS

Fantasies of the Other’s Body in Middle English Oriental Romance (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013).

Recenzja: Lesley Coote, Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny LXIV/1 (2017), 116-118.

Inscription on the Body: Monstrous Children in Middle English Literature (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2009).

Recenzja: Agatha Hansen, Romanica Silesiana 5 (2010), 302-304.

BOOKS EDITED

• New Zealand Medievalism: Reframing the Medieval. Ed. Anna Czarnowus and Janet M. Wilson. London and New York: Routledge (planowany rok wydania 2023).
• Memory and Medievalism in George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones: The Keeper of All Our Memories. Ed. Anna Czarnowus and Carolyne Larrington. London: Bloomsbury, 2022
• From Richardson to Atwood: Medievalism in English Canadian Literature. Ed. M.J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020.
• Marvels of Reading: Essays in Honour of Professor Andrzej Wicher. Ed. Rafał Borysławski, Anna Czarnowus, and Łukasz Neubauer. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2015.
• Traverser les frontières. Mélanges offerts au Professeur Krzysztof Jarosz/Crossing Borders. Studies in Honour of Professor Krzysztof Jarosz. Ed. Anna Czarnowus et Joanna Warmuzińska-Rogóż. Katowice : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2014.

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

• “The Medievalist Emotional Economy in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire”, Memory and Medievalism in George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones, ed. Carolyne Larrington and Anna Czarnowus (London: Bloomsbury, 2022). 137-146.
• (with Carolyne Larrington) “Introduction”, Memory and Medievalism in George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones, ed. Carolyne Larrington and Anna Czarnowus (London: Bloomsbury, 2022). 1-8.
• “Harsh, Violent, and Muddy,” or Ale, Wine, and Liquor in Adam Thorpe’s Hodd” in Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism, ed. John A. Geck, Rosemary O’Neill, and Noelle Phillips (Cham: Springer Nature, 2022). 363-388.
• “Medievalism of Emotions in King Lear”, Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation,
• Appropriation and Performance 23 (38)/ 2021. 187-202.
• John Lydgate’s Guy of Warwick and Fifteenth-Century Emotions, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia  
• 56 (2021). 209-233.
• “Echoes of Medieval and Pre-Modern Animal Trials in the Interlude Declamatio sub forma iudicii (1735), Romanica Silesiana 20 (2021), Reception, https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/issue/view/1201
• (with M.J. Toswell) “English Canadian Medievalism” in Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood: Medievalism in English Canadian Literature, ed. Anna Czarnowus and M.J. Toswell (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020). 1-16.
• “John Richardson’s Wacousta, or the Transfer of Medievalist Romance” in From Richardson to Atwood: Medievalism in English Canadian Literature, ed. Anna Czarnowus and M.J. Toswell (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020). 52-65.
• “Lancelot and Guenevere in the Inter-War Period, or the Medievalisms of Evelyn Waugh’s Handful of Dust and Ezra Pound’s Canto VI” in The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments, ed. Carole M. Cusack and Simone Marshall (Leiden: Brill, 2017). 152-168.
• “Greening the Anglo-Saxons in Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake”. Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny XLV/4 (2018). 531-543.
• “The Legend of Janosik and the Polish Novel about Robin Hood as Continuations of the Medieval Outlaw Tradition” in Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon, ed. Lesley Coote and Alexander L. Kaufman (New York and London: Routledge, 2019). 167-183.
• “Litanic Tradition in Of on that is so fayr and bright and the Harley Ms The Five Joys of Mary”. Terminus. Vol. 18. No 1 (2016). 1-16.
• “The Mongols, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe: The Mirabilia Tradition in Benedict of Poland’s Historia Tartarorum and John of Plano Carpini’s Historia Mongalorum”. Literature Compass. Vol. 11. No 7 (2014). The Global Middle Ages. Ed. Geraldine Heng and Lynn Ramey. 484-495.