Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

Julia Szołtysek, PhD

 I am an English philologist and literary scholar, working as an assistant professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Literary Studies. My research interests include travel discourses, postcolonial studies, representations of the Orient in Western literature and art, and contemporary British and American fiction by women. I hold a PhD degree from the University of Wrocław, Poland. My monograph A Mosaic of Misunderstanding: Occident, Orient, and Facets of Mutual Misconstrual was published in 2016 by Peter Lang Verlag. My research articles have appeared in international journals and refereed collections published by Routledge, Peter Lang, Berghahn and others. I am also the co-editor of two academic volumes and external reviewer for i.a. European Journal of American Studies, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Litteraria Copernicana, and Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies. I have participated in fifty international conferences held in the UK, Germany, Spain and the Balearic Islands, Portugal, Turkey, France, Belgium, Estonia, Croatia, Malta, Italy, Cyprus, Denmark, Austria, Morocco, and Poland. I have been giving guest lectures and conducting workshops at various British, European, Asian and African universities and research centres. I have been a doctoral advisor in two PhD theses written in the field of literary studies. I have worked on organizing and scientific committees of five international conferences. In 2016 I was the recipient of the Peter Lang Young Scholars Award for Best Monograph in the Humanities, and in 2012 during my PhD studies at the University of Wrocław, Poland, I was awarded the Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for Outstanding Young Scientists. I regularly participate in academic events such as The Silesian Science Festival or The English Philologists’ Night.

Personal data

Date and place of birth:                    

1985/09/19; Wrocław, Poland

Office address:                                 

Institute of Literary Studies, Faculty of Humanities,

University of Silesia in Katowice, ul. Grota-Roweckiego 5, 41-205 Sosnowiec, Poland

Email address:                                  

julia.szoltysek@us.edu.pl

ORCID:                                             

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-7807

Scopus Author ID:                            

57193354182

Websites:                                           https://silesian.academia.edu/JuliaSzo%C5%82tysek

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia-Szoltysek https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=13NBL_0AAAAJ&hl=pl 

Podcasts:

Swoboda badań | O młodych pisarkach anglojęzycznych (Inicjatywa Doskonałości Badawczej, edycja II, Swoboda Badań)

Education

1. PhD in the Humanities

University of Wrocław, Poland, PhD Studies at the Department of Philology, Institute of English Studies completed in 2014; dissertation (237 pages): Temptation, Promise, Threat: East and West in Contact. A Cultural Study; thesis defence (with distinction): October 28^th, 2014. Thesis confirmation: November 18^th, 2014.

2. MA in English Philology

University of Wrocław, Institute of English Studies, Wrocław, Poland, July 2009; grade on diploma: A; thesis (139 pages) published in fragments:

Consuming ‘Authenticity,’ Digesting ‘Otherness’: Visions of East/West Reconciliation in Selected Works by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Ameena Meer, Paul Bowles, and Esther Freud

Publications

Refereed monographs

• Julia Szołtysek, A Mosaic of Misunderstanding: Occident, Orient, and Facets of Mutual Misconstrual, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Vienna and Warsaw: Peter Lang Verlag, 2016, 212 pages, ISBN 9783631693407

Edited works

• Augustynowicz, Nina, Agnieszka Podruczna and Julia Szołtysek, eds. A Suitcase of Her Own: Women and Travel: Postscriptum Polonistyczne 27 (1), 2021, Katowice: University of Silesia Press, ISSN: 1898-1593 (Print) ISSN: 2353-9844 (Online) DOI: 10.31261/PS_P.
• Białas, Zbigniew, Paweł Jędrzejko and Julia Szołtysek, eds. Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, ISBN (10): 1-4438-5059-4; ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-5059-0.

Articles

• Julia Szołtysek, “How to Disembark Completely: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s and Ella Maillart’s Afghan Journey (1939)”, in: Crossroads 39 (2022). DOI: 10.15290/CR.2022.39.4.02.
• Julia Szołtysek, “A Romance for the New Age: Mikko Makela’s A Moment in the Reeds (2017). Race, Sex and Politics”, in: Masculinities – A Journal of Culture and Society, 2021 (16), 106-111. 
• Julia Szołtysek, „Pionierzy zimowej pogoni za słońcem – George Sand i Fryderyk Chopin w Valldemossie”, in: Wędrówka w literaturze i sztuce – wybrane zagadnienia. Lublin: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Tygiel, 2021. 115-127. ISBN 978-83-66489-93-6.
• Julia Szołtysek, “Between 'the me that leaves and the me that returns’: Gertrude Bell’s Persian Gateways and Walls”, in: A Suitcase of Her Own: Women and Travel: Postscriptum Polonistyczne 27 (1), 2021, Katowice: University of Silesia Press, 69 – 85. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31261/https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2021.27.04
• Julia Szołtysek, “Building Up Steam: Gaze, Gateways and Gays in Ferzan Ozpetek’s Hamam”, in: Oceánide: Journal of the Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture No. 12, ed. by José Igor Prieto Arranz and Rubén Jarazo Álvarez. ISSN 1989-6328. https://doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v12i.26. February 9, 2020.
• Julia Szołtysek, “Gertrude Bell: A Paradox to Modern Eyes”, in: The European Legacy – Towards New Paradigms: The Official Journal of The International Society for the Study of European Ideas [ISSEI], Vol. 27, Issue 7-8, Routledge: Taylor and Francis, ISSN 1084-8770. Published online September 3, 2018. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10848770.2018.1513121
• Julia Szołtysek, “Harems, Pashas, and Mistaken Identities: Mis/Appropriations of the Middle East in Adaptations of W. A. Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail,” in: Music on Stage, Volume 3, ed. by Fiona Jane Schopf, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. 80 – 93.
• Julia Szołtysek, “A spectacle which would make a hundred painters drop their brushes in astonishment: In the Harem with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Edmondo de Amicis, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Daniel Chodowiecki,” in: Anglica Wratislaviensia LIII, ed. by Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Wrocław: University of Wrocław Press, 2015, 89 – 102.
• Julia Szołtysek, “They call this ‘organic shrapnel’: Violent Closeness Between ‘Victims’ and ‘Perpetrators’ in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” in: Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief, ed. by Zbigniew Białas, Paweł Jędrzejko and Julia Szołtysek, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 108 – 123, ISBN (10): 1-4438-5059-4; ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-5059-0
• Julia Szołtysek, “Niesamowite sobowtóry: trawestacja binarnej opozycji między guru a wyznawcą” (“Uncanny Doubles: Misappropriations of the Guru/Devotee Dyad”), in: Znajome staje się przerażające – pojęcie niesamowitości w języku i kulturze. The Familiar Becomes Frightening – the Notion of the Uncanny in Language and Culture. Red. Andrzej Wicher (monografia recenzowana). Wydawnictwo AHE w Łodzi: Łódź, 2012, pp. 245 – 254. ISBN 978-83-7405-606-9
• Julia Szołtysek, “Here lies bonded labor, spread-eagled Douloti Nagesia’s tormented corpse: Mahasweta Devi’s Repaying the Tribals Their Honour,” in: In Other Words: Dialogizing Postcoloniality, Race and Ethnicity. Eds. Ewa Luczak, Justyna Wierzchowska, Joanna Ziarkowska. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012, pp. 213 – 220.
• Julia Szołtysek, „Pisarz, wizjoner, filozof: myśl Hermana Melville’a w kontekście zachodniej kultury dyskursu”, in: Er(r)go 18 (1/2009), Katowice: Wydawnictwo Naukowe „Śląsk” 2011, pp. 203 – 209.
• Julia Szołtysek, “Uncanny Doubles: Appropriating the Guru/Devotee Dyad,” in: Anglica Wratislaviensia no. XLIX, ed. by Anna Michońska-Stadnik, Wrocław, University of Wrocław Press, 2011, pp. 57 – 67.
• Julia Szołtysek, „Widmo dziejów, pułapka historii i duch postkolonializmu: niebezpieczna (post)ponowoczesna triada”, in: Er(r)go 19 (2/2009), Katowice: Wydawnictwo Naukowe „Śląsk” 2011, pp. 210 – 218.
• Julia Szołtysek, “Innocents Abroad? Ghostly Presences, Present Absences, and the Quest for the ‘It’ Experience. Modern-day Euro-American Travelers and their Off-map Spaces,” in: Metamorphoses of Travel Literature; Through Literary Traditions, Centuries, Genres and Theories, Grzegorz Moroz and Joanna Sztachelska, eds. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, pp. 232-240.
• Julia Szołtysek, “Authentic but Digestible: A Critique of the Western Craving for the Exotic in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Three Continents”, in: Interiors: Interiors: Interiority and Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse, eds. Sonia Front and Katarzyna Nowak, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, pp. 163-174.

Reviews

• Julia Szołtysek, Book Review: “Nineteenth-Century Visions of Race: British Travel Writing about America by Justyna Fruzińska, Routledge, 2021”, in: Crossroads 39 (2022). DOI: 10.15290/CR.2022.39.4.08.
• Julia Szołtysek, “Kipling and Beyond: Patriotism, Globalization and Postcolonialism, ed. by Caroline Rooney and Kaori Nagai, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010,” in: The European Legacy – Towards New Paradigms: The Official Journal of The International Society for the Study of European Ideas [ISSEI]: Routledge, Taylor and Francis, ISSN 1084-8770, Vol. 17:5(2012), p. 713.

Translations

• Regan, Lesley, Twoja ciąża tydzień po tygodniu: Czego możesz się spodziewać od poczęcia do porodu, trans. into Polish by Julia Szołtysek, Esteri: Wrocław, 2016, ISSN 19632827.
• Harman M., „Jeździec na dwóch koniach? Franz Kafka i przekład literacki,” transl. by Julia Szołtysek, in: OderÜbersetzen : deutsch-polnisches Übersetzungsjahrbuch – Karl Dedecius Archiv, ed. Bożena Chołuj, Słubice: Collegium Polonicum, 2/2011, pp. 66 – 72.
• Dorota Michułka, „Cyprian Kamil Norwid”, trans. by Julia Szołtysek, in: The Literary Encyclopedia, ed. Robert C. Clark (Polish part edited by prof. Ewa Thompson), The Literary Dictionary Company Limited, ISSN 1747-678X.

 Organization of academic events

• Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia, and The University of the Balearic Islands’ Research Group in British and Comparative Cultural Studies (BRICCS), Košice, 22 – 24 October 2020, International Conference The Global and the Local in Postmillennial Europe: 9th International SELICUP Conference (Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture). Member of the Scientific Committee. [held online in 2021 due to covid].
• University of Silesia, Poland, Institute of English Literatures and Cultures, Szczyrk, 20.09.2017 – 23.09.2017, International Conference A Suitcase of Her Own: Women and Travel. Programme Chair.
• University of Silesia, Poland, Institute of English Literatures and Cultures, Sosnowiec, 31.03.2016 – 02.04.2016, International Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (member of ESSE) Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self: Member of the Organizational Committee, coordinator of Conference programme.
• University of Wrocław, Poland, Institute of English Studies, Wrocław, 4 – 5 September 2015, International Conference Focus on Fathers: Fatherhood in Contemporary Discourse: member of the Advisory Board.
• University of Silesia, Poland, Institute of English Literatures and Cultures, Ustroń, 20 – 23 September 2012, Grievings 2012 International Conference: member of the Organizational Committee, coordinator of the Conference programme.

 Participation in Conferences

• Borders and Crossings 2022, University of Tartu, Estonia, 6 – 8 July 2022. Paper: “How to Disembark Completely: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s and Ella Maillart’s Afghan Journey (1939)”.
• 15th International IDEA Conference: Studies in English, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey, 11 – 13 May 2022. Paper: “Bohemian Conversations: Pursuit of Sense, Self and Intimacy in Sally Rooney’s and Eimear McBride’s Fiction.”
• 15^th ESSE Conference, European Society for the Study of English, Lyon, France, 30 August – 3 September 2020. Paper: “How to Disembark Completely: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s and Ella Maillart’s Afghan Journey (1939)”. [online event held in 2021 due to covid]
• EACLALS Triennial Conference 2020: Transcultural Mo(ve)ments: Memories, Writings, Embodiments, Cardiff University, Wales, 18 – 22 May 2020. Paper: “How to Disembark Completely: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s and Ella Maillart’s Afghan Journey (1939)”. [online event held in 2021 due to covid]
• Representing Disembarkation: Migrations, Arrivals, Territories, Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 27 – 29 April 2020. Paper: “How to Disembark Completely: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s and Ella Maillart’s Afghan Journey (1939)”. [postponed due to covid, no new date yet]
• MASCNET: Masculinity Sex and Popular Culture Network, Masculinity and National Identity, Village Berlin, 17.01.2020. Paper: “A Romance for the New Age: Mikko Makela’s A Moment in the Reeds (2017) and Race, Sex and Politics”.
• Othello’s Island 2019: The Third Annual Early Modern Women Writers’ Colloquium, University of Cyprus, 15 – 17 April 2019. Paper: “If it was the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed: In the Hamam with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.”
• Straight to the Front Row: Investigating Contemporary Western Gay Male Cinema, University of Northampton, UK, 16 February 2019 – 17 February 2019. Paper: “A Romance for the New Age: Mikko Makela’s A Moment in the Reeds (2017) and Race, Sex and Politics”
• The Humanities and the Challenges of the New Europe: Culture, Languages, Identities, 8th International SELICUP Conference (Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture), Majorca, Spain, 24 – 26 October 2018. Paper: “Building Up Steam: Gaze, Gateways, and Gays in Ferzan Özpetek’s Hamam”.
• Borders and Crossings: International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia, 13-16 September 2018. Paper: „Pioneers of the “3S-Escapes”: Georges Sand and Frederic Chopin in Valldemossa”.
• New Approaches to Studying the Middle East, The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at King’s College London, 25 – 28 June 2018. Paper: “Between ‘the me that leaves and the me that returns’: Gertrude Bell’s Persian Gateways and Walls”.
• Ogólnopolska konferencja naukowa „Kulturowa historia podróżowania”, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Centrum Informacji Naukowej i Biblioteka Akademicka (CINiBA), 27 – 28 listopada 2017. Referat: „Pionierzy zimowej pogoni za słońcem – Georges Sand i Fryderyk Chopin w Valldemossie”.
• A Suitcase of Her Own: Women and Travel, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia in Katowice, 20 – 23 September 2017. Paper: “Between ‘the me that leaves and the me that returns’: Gertrude Bell’s Persian Gateways and Walls”.
• Borders and Crossings 2017 Conference, Aberystwyth University, Wales, 10-12 July 2017. Paper: “Between ‘the me that leaves and the me that returns’: Gertrude Bell’s Persian Gateways and Walls”.
• The 16th Triennial Conference of EACLALS, Performing the Urban: Embodiments, Inventories, Rhythms, University of Oviedo, Spain, 03.04.2017 – 07.04.2017. Paper: “Orhan Pamuk’s Delightful Obsessions: City, Novel, Museum.”
• The 4th International Edition of the Conference “Orient in Literature – Literature of the Orient: Borders & Borderlands” (OLLO 2017), March 23-24, 2017, Collegium Maius, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland. Paper: “Between ‘the me that leaves and the me that returns’: Gertrude Bell’s Persian Gateways and Walls”.
• Music on Stage Conference, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, 22.10.2016 – 23.10.2016. Paper: “Harems, Pashas, and Mistaken Identities: Mis/Appropriations of the Middle East in Adaptations of W. A. Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail.”
• TURKOLOGENTAG 2016: Second European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Hamburg University and the GTOT (Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies), 14.09.2016 – 17.09.2016. Paper: “The Ottoman Harem Inter Artes: Western Imaginings and Mis/Representations of the Harem Trope in Literature and the Arts.”
• University of Silesia, Poland, Institute of English Literatures and Cultures, Sosnowiec, 31.03.2016 – 02.04.2016, International Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (member of ESSE) Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self. Paper: “The Ottoman Harem in Western Literature and the Arts: Imaginings and Mis/Representations”.
• BAAHE [Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education] Annual Conference Adaptation, December 4^th, 2015, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Paper: “Harems, Pashas, and Mistaken Identities: Mis/Appropriations of the Middle East in Adaptations of W. A. Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail”.
• Mediterranean Fractures: Contested Pasts, Unrealised Futures, 5 – 6 November 2015, University of Malta, Valletta Campus. Paper: “The Ottoman Harem Inter Artes: Western Imaginings and Mis/Representations of the Harem Trope in Literature and the Arts”
• Art Histories – EUME Workshop: Writing Histories of Now: Modern and Contemporary Middle East Art and Architecture, organized by Mohamed Elshahed and Clare Davies and the research programs “Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe” and “Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices”. Observant of the round-table discussions.
• 9^th International IDEA Conference Studies in English, 15 – 17 April, 2015, Department of Western Languages and Literatures, İnönü University, Malatya, Turkey. Paper: “A spectacle which would make a hundred painters drop their brushes in astonishment: In the Harem with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Edmondo de Amicis, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Daniel Chodowiecki.”
• Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities: Cosmopolitanism and Transcultural Memories: International two-day conference, 26- 27 June 2014, Birkbeck College, University of London. Paper: “What Lady Montagu Knew: Intertextuality, Re/Appropriation, and the 'Exotic’”
• Representing, (De)Constructing and Translating Borderlands, University of Białystok, Poland, Warsaw University, The “Borderlands” Foundation, Krasnogruda, Poland, 29 – 30 May 2014. Paper: “Split Sympathies, Conflicting Ideals, and the Abjectification of Terror Politics in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
• 15^th Triennial EACLALS Conference Uncommon Wealths: Riches and Realities, Innsbruck, 14 – 18 April 2014. Paper: “’Tis just as ’tis with you”? Manoeuvring the Pitfalls of Being 'Britons en Turque’ in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters and Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond”
• LIT CRI ’13: Literary Criticism Conference, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey, 18 – 20 November 2013. Paper: “Orhan Pamuk’s Delightful Obsessions: City, Novel, Museum”
• Third International BAKEA Symposium of Western Cultures and Literatures: History, Gaziantep University,Gaziantep, Turkey, 9 – 11 October 2013. Paper: “History Caught Red-Handed: Reading the Violent Closeness between the ‘Victims’ and the ‘Perpetrators’ in J. S. Foer’s Extremely Close, Incredibly Loud and Don DeLillo’s Faling Man”
• The Significance of the Insignificant in Anglophone Studies: 3rd International Conference of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies, University of Oviedo, Spain, Department of English Philology, 5 – 7 June 2013. Paper: “Delightful Obsessions: Orhan Pamuk and the Museumification of the Every-Day.”
• After the Empires: Reflections of European Colonialism in a Globalized World, 29 – 31 May 2013, Roskilde University, Denmark. Paper: “Love in the Times of Dust, or, Revenge, Transgression and the Burden of History in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust.”
• 7^th International IDEA Conference, 17 -19 April 2013, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey. Paper: “Love in the Times of Dust, or, Revenge, Transgression and the Burden of History in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust.”
• Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 7 – 9 November 2012. Paper: “Reading the ‘Falling Man’: Violent Closeness between the ‘Victims’ and the ‘Perpetrators’ in J. S. Foer’s Extremely Close, Incredibly Loud and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man.”
• University of Silesia, Poland, Institute of English Literatures and Cultures, 20 – 23 September 2012, Grievings 2012. Paper: “They call this ‘organic shrapnel’: Violent Closeness Between ‘Victims’ and ‘Perpetrators’ in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, John Updike’s Terrorist, and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
• 11th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 4 – 8 September 2012. Paper: “They call it ‘organic shrapnel’: Violent Closeness Between ‘Victims’ and ‘Perpetrators’ in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, John Updike’s Terrorist, and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.”
• University of Aveiro, Portugal, Department of Languages and Cultures, Cultural Studies Center, 28 – 29 June 2012, ‘Routes and Roots’: Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism. Paper: “Beyond the Edge of the Map: Paul Bowles’s (The Sheltering Sky) and Esther Freud’s (Hideous Kinky) Transnational Interlopers.”
• University of London, Senate House, 28 – 29 October 2011, Love, Sex, Desire & the (Post)Colonial. Paper: “Love in the Times of Dust, or, Revenge, Transgression and the Burden of History in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust.”
• Pamukkale University, Pamukkale, Turkey, 5 – 7 October 2011, 2^nd International BAKEA Symposium of Western Cultural and Literary Studies. Paper: “Recycling the Tribal Body: Mahasweta Devi’s Strategies of Ideological Resistance.”
• University of Birmingham, Birmingham, Great Britain, 7 – 8 July 2011; 2nd Biennial Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association Postcolonialism, Economies, Crises: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Paper: “Rocking the Boat of Euro-American Academia: Mahasweta Devi’s Vindication of the ‘Voiceless.’”
• Oxford University, Mansfield College, Oxford, Great Britain, 4 – 6 July 2011, 4th Global Conference: Diasporas – Exploring Critical Issues. Paper: “Rocking the Boat of Euro-American Academia: Mahasweta Devi’s Vindication of the ‘Voiceless.’”
• Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, 26 – 30 April 2011; International Conference EACLALS 2011 Under Construction: Gateways and Walls. Paper: “Palimpsest and Contradiction: Euro-American (Re)claiming of the Tribal Body.”
• University of Lisbon, Center for English Studies, Lisbon, Portugal, 21 – 23 October 2010; International Conference Do You Bowles? Paper: “Jumbled Up and Twisted: Paul Bowles’s (The Sheltering Sky) and Esther Freud’s (Hideous Kinky) North African Peregrinations.”
• 8th International Congress of Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum World without Borders – Science without Borders, Toruń, Poland, 27 – 30 June 2010; Young Scientists Session, Poster: “A Borderless World? Subversions of Authority in Postcolonial Discourse.”
• University of Warsaw, Institute of English Studies, Warsaw, Poland, 13 – 14 May 2010; International Conference Postcolonial Discourse, Ethnicity, and Race in the United States: Past and Present. Paper: “Here lies bonded labor spread-eagled Douloti Nagesia’s tormented corpse: Mahasweta Devi’s Repaying the Tribals Their Honour.”
• Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, English Studies Department, Beni Mellal, Morocco, 21 – 22 April 2010; International Conference Exoticism/The Exotic. Paper: “Western Travels To and From the Exotica Erotica: A Critical Encounter with the Artifacts of the ‘Other.’”
• Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź, Poland, 26 – 27 November 2009; International Conference The Familiar Becomes Frightening – the Notion of the Uncanny in Language and Culture. Paper: “Uncanny Doubles: Misappropriations of the Guru/Devotee Dyad.”
• University of Białystok, Instytut Filologii Polskiej i Katedra Neofilologii, Białowieża, Poland, 11 – 13 May 2009; International Conference Forms and Evolution of Travel Literature in Different Literary Traditions. Paper: “Innocents Abroad? Ghostly Presences, Present Absences, and the Quest for the ‘It’ Experience. Modern-day Euro-American Travelers and their Off-map spaces.”
• University of Silesia, Institute of English Literatures and Cultures, Ustroń, Poland, 18 – 21 September 2008; International Conference Interiors. Paper: “Authentic but Digestible: A Critique of the Western Craving for the Exotic in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Three Continents.”

Academic outreach and engagement

• Swoboda Badań – Nauka dla Przyszłości: Inicjatywa Doskonałości Badawczej edycja 2022. Podcast „O młodych pisarkach anglojęzycznych”.
• 6^th Silesian Science Festival (6. Śląski Festiwal Nauki), 5 December 2022. Lecture: „Pionierzy zimowej pogoni za słońcem – George Sand i Fryderyk Chopin w Valldemossie.”
• English Philologists’ Night (Noc Anglistów) 2022, 25 November 2022, University of Silesia in Katowice. Lecture: “Angry Young Women: Pursuit of Sense, Self and Intimacy in Sally Rooney’s Fiction.”
• Luxembourg School of Religion & Society, Reading Club Meeting hosted by Diana Mistreanu, PhD (LSRS): “Between the ‘me that leaves and the me that returns’: Gertrude Bell’s Persian Gateways and Walls”, 27 October 2020.
• Festival Month of Authors’ Readings: Brno, Koszyce, Wrocław (“Miesiąc Spotkań Autorskich”), fourth Polish edition, July 1^st., 2014 – August 3^rd., 2014: translations of texts by Scottish authors participating in the Festival; moderating readings and meetings with the Authors, oral interpretations.

Scholarships and Awards

• Participant of a three-day research seminar Male (Un)Bonding: Men, Masculinities, and Homosocial Troubles: A Research Development Workshop and Interdisciplinary Networking Event, 13-15 June 2019, Bush House, King’s College London (international competition; selection upon assessment of submitted proposals).
• Recipient of the University of Silesia Rector’s prize for academic achievements (category: authorial publications and monographs) for the monograph The Mosaic of Misunderstanding: Occident, Orient, and Facets of Mutual Misconstrual; October 2017.
• Recipient of the University of Silesia Rector’s prize for outstanding academic performance (category: faculty members); January 2017.
• Recipient of the Peter Lang Young Scholars Award 2016 for Best Monograph in The Humanities (co-funding of publication The Mosaic of Misunderstanding: Occident, Orient, and Facets of Mutual Misconstrual); May 2016.
• Recipient of the University of Silesia Rector’s prize for outstanding academic performance (category: faculty members); January 2016.
• Recipient of the Stipend for Outstanding Doctoral Students presented within the framework of the European Social Fund (University of Wrocław, programme for developing and improving the university’s potential and broadening its educational offer; project number: POKL.04.01.01-00-054/10-00); March – July 2014.
• Recipient of the Prize of Distinction in the Wincenty Styś Scholarship Programme, realized by the Office of the President of Wrocław; November 2013.
• Recipient of the 2012 Stipend for Outstanding Young Scholars presented by the Minister of Science and Higher Education; place in the ranking: 17/99; total number of points: 60.
• Recipient of the EACLALS/ABES Eastern European Scholarship (financial support for covering the Conference Fee and/or other expenses at the 2011 EACLALS Triennial Conference held in Istanbul, Turkey, 26 – 30 April 2011).
• Recipient of the Foundation for Polish Science Conference Grant (financial support for participation in the 2011 EACLALS Triennial Conference held in Istanbul, Turkey, 26 – 30 April 2011).
• Recipient of The Stipend for Young Scholars 2009/2010, presented by the Chancellor of the University of Economics and Humanities in Bielsko-Biała.

Guest Lectures and Workshops; Cooperation with Student Academic Circles

• Erasmus Plus Teaching Mobility, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey, 21/10/2019 – 25/10/20192019; teaching programme: “Gertrude Bell, Adam Mickiewicz, and romantic ruins: in search of a world that is no more” (8 hours; 75 participants).
• Erasmus Plus Teaching Mobility, University of Verona, Italy, 18/03/2019 – 22/03/2019; teaching programme: “Gertrude Bell, Adam Mickiewicz, and romantic ruins: in search of a world that is no more” (8 hours; doctoral students, 10 participants).
• Erasmus Plus Teaching Mobility; Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, 02/05/2018 – 08/05/2018; teaching programme: “Victorian Women Travellers” (8 hours; graduate students, 10 participants).
• Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, Mediterranean Seminar Series, 15 February 2018: “Pioneers of the “3S-Escapes”: Georges Sand and Frederic Chopin in Valldemossa”.
• Newcastle University, Archaeology Research Seminars, 18 May 2017: „Between 'the me that leaves and the me that returns’: Gertrude Bell’s Persian Gateways and Walls” (2 hours; 30 participants).
• Erasmus Plus Teaching Mobility; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 04.05.2017 – 10.05.2017; teaching programme: “The Trials and Tribulations of the Good Thick Skirt: Gertrude Bell and Vita Sackville-West in the Orient” (8 hours; graduate and doctoral students; 50 participants).
• Erasmus Plus Teaching Mobility; University of Lille, France, 06.03.2016 – 12.03.2016; teaching programme: The Many Face(t)s of Post/colonialism (8 hours; graduate students – 23 participants).
• Cycle of classes with the Scientific Group of Philologists – “Orhan Pamuk and the Museumification of the Every-day” – University of Economics and Humanities in Bielsko-Biała (5 hours); 14th and15th May 2013
• Workshop “9/11 Literature: Home, Hearth, and Horror”; MA Seminar at the University of Silesia, class of prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Białas and at the University of Economics and Humanities in Bielsko-Biała (2 x 2 hours); 11^th and 12^th December 2012
• University of Economics and Humanities, Bielsko-Biała, Poland; “Colonial History – Postcolonial Revisionings”: a cycle of classes with the University’s Scientific Group of Philologists (10 hours); March 24th and 25th 2011.
• Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco; “Westerners-on-a-Quest (in Morocco): An Encounter with the Artifacts of the ‘Other,’” April 26^th 2010.
• University of Economics and Humanities, Bielsko-Biała, Poland; “Literature-Ethnicity-Otherness”: a cycle of classes with the University’s Scientific Group of Philologists (10 hours); February 18^th and 20^th 2010, and March 11^th 2010.

 Research trips and library queries

• Newcastle University, The Gertrude Bell Archive: ten-day research stay under the supervision of Dr. Mark Jackson, 15.05.2017 – 25.05.2017.
• Newcastle University, The Gertrude Bell Archive: three-day research stay under the supervision of Dr. Mark Jackson, 06.02.2017 – 09.02.2017.

Participation in Summer Courses and Symposiums

• Third International Summer Academy for Doctoral Students in American Studies: Transatlantic American Studies: Democratic Cultures, Past and Present, organized by the Bavarian-American Academy, Munich and Nuremberg, Germany, May 14 – 28, 2011

Research Stipends and Fellowships

• 3^rd Edition of the Research Project Competition organized by the University of Wroclaw, Department of Philology. Project: Podzielone sympatie, sprzeczne ideały, dwuznaczne przekonania: Spotkania ” Wschodu” i ” Zachodu” w wybranych pozycjach współczesnej literatury etnicznej i postkolonialne (Split Sympathies, Conflicting Ideals, Ambiguous Convictions: 'East’/’West’ Encounters in a Selection of Contemporary Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature). Place in the ranking: 2. Duration of the project: July 2013 – December 2013.
• University of Wrocław Research Grant for Young Scholars: 6-week research query at the Free University Berlin, Germany, 1 October 2012 – 15 November 2012.
• 2^nd Edition of the Research Project Competition organized by the University of Wroclaw, Department of Philology. Project: „Między pragnieniem egzotyczności a praktyką egzotyzacji: perspektywy postkolonialne” (“Taste for the Exotic, Practices of Exoticization – Postcolonial Perspectives”); place in the ranking: 8; duration of the project: 01.06.2012 – 31.12.2012
• John F. Kennedy Research Grant: 4-week stipend for scholars in American Studies; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University Berlin, Germany, November 2011.

Reviewing Activities

• Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies, University of Białystok; external reviewer.
• Pre-publication reviews for Routledge
• Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, ed. by James M. Decker and Kenneth Womack, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, USA; external reviewer.
• Vernon Press, Wilmington, DE, USA; external reviewer.
• Journal of Mediterranean Studies, published by the Mediterranean Institute of the University of Malta, Valletta, Malta; external reviewer.
• Litteraria Copernicana, Nicolaus Copernicus University of Toruń, Poland; external reviewer.
• Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK; external reviewer.

Membership in International Organizations and Research Groups

• BRICCS [British and Comparative Cultural Studies]: from 2020.
• SELICUP [Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture]: from 2020.
• MASCNET [Masculinity Network]: from 2019
• EACLALS [European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies]: from 2010.