dr hab. Sonia Front, prof. UŚ
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9334-6531
https://silesian.academia.edu/SoniaFront
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sonia-Front
WYKSZTAŁCENIE:
- 2016 – tytuł doktora habilitowanego nauk humanistycznych w zakresie literaturoznawstwa, Instytut Kultur i Literatur Anglojęzycznych, Uniwersytet Śląski. Główne osiągnięcie naukowe: monografia Shapes of Time in British Twenty-First Century Quantum Fiction (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).
- 2007 – tytuł doktora nauk humanistycznych w zakresie literaturoznawstwa, Instytut Kultury i Literatury Brytyjskiej i Amerykańskiej, Uniwersytet Śląski. Tytuł dysertacji: On the Necessity of Crossing Boundaries: Time, Language and Identity in the Writings of Jeanette Winterson.
ZAINTERESOWANIA BADAWCZE:
- Czas i temporalność w literaturze, kinie i telewizji XXI wieku
- Reprezentacje świadomości w literaturze, kinie i telewizji XXI wieku
PUBLIKACJE (WYBÓR):
MONOGRAFIE
- Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature: Out of Sync (London and New York: Routledge, 2025).
- Shapes of Time in British Twenty-First Century Quantum Fiction (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).
- Transgressing Boundaries in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009).
ARTYKUŁY W CZASOPISMACH
- “The Self Turned Inside Out: Neural Networks in Temi Oh’s More Perfect and Justin Cronin’s The Ferryman.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2025.2534413.
- “‘Spiders […] stringing webs through her head’: Representations of memory in Anthony Doerr’s “Memory Wall” and Meredith Westgate’s The Shimmering State.” Orbis Litterarum, vol. 78, issue 6 (2023), ss. 537-555. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12402.
- “‘Excused from time’: Time and Consciousness in John Wray’s The Lost Time Accidents and Adam Roberts’s The Thing Itself.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, vol. 24, no. 4 (2022), ss. 512-533. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.24.4.0512.
- “Heads in the Fridge and Minds in New Bodies – Transfers of Consciousness in Hanif Kureishi’s The Body, Marcel Theroux’s Strange Bodies and Don DeLillo’s Zero K.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 61, issue 4 (2020), ss. 487-501. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1749549.
ROZDZIAŁY
- “In the Forest of Realities: Impossible Worlds in Film and Television Narratives.” W: Time in Variance. The Study of Time XVII, red. Arkadiusz Misztal, Paul A. Harris, and Jo Alyson Parker (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021), ss. 132-153.
- “‘There’s More Than One of Everything’ – Time Complexity in Fringe.” W: Time’s Urgency. The Study of Time XVI, red. Carlos Montemayor and Robert Daniel (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019), ss. 234-254.
WSPÓŁREDAKCJA
- Sonia Front, Alicja Bemben, red. ‘Hours like bright sweets in a jar’ – Time and Temporality in Literature and Culture (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).
- Sonia Front, Katarzyna Nowak, red. Interiors: Interiority / Exteriority in Literary and
- Cultural Discourse (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).
Sonia Front, PhD, DLitt
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9334-6531
https://silesian.academia.edu/SoniaFront
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sonia-Front
EDUCATION:
2016 – Habilitation. Department of English. University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. Dissertation: Shapes of Time in British Twenty-First Century Quantum Fiction.
2007 – Ph.D. Department of English. University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. Dissertation: On the Necessity of Crossing Boundaries: Time, Language and Identity in the Writings of Jeanette Winterson.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Time and temporality in 21st century literature, cinema, and television
- Representations of consciousness in 21st century literature, cinema, and television
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
MONOGRAPHS
- Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature: Out of Sync (London and New York: Routledge, 2025).
- Shapes of Time in British Twenty-First Century Quantum Fiction (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).
- Transgressing Boundaries in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- “The Self Turned Inside Out: Neural Networks in Temi Oh’s More Perfect and Justin Cronin’s The Ferryman.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2025.2534413.
- “‘Spiders […] stringing webs through her head’: Representations of memory in Anthony Doerr’s “Memory Wall” and Meredith Westgate’s The Shimmering State.” Orbis Litterarum, vol. 78, issue 6 (2023), pp. 537-555. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12402.
- “‘Excused from time’: Time and Consciousness in John Wray’s The Lost Time Accidents and Adam Roberts’s The Thing Itself.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, vol. 24, no. 4 (2022), pp. 512-533. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.24.4.0512.
- “Heads in the Fridge and Minds in New Bodies – Transfers of Consciousness in Hanif Kureishi’s The Body, Marcel Theroux’s Strange Bodies and Don DeLillo’s Zero K.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 61, issue 4 (2020), pp. 487-501. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1749549.
BOOK CHAPTERS
- “In the Forest of Realities: Impossible Worlds in Film and Television Narratives.” In: Time in Variance. The Study of Time XVII, eds. Arkadiusz Misztal, Paul A. Harris, and Jo Alyson Parker (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021), pp. 132-153.
- “‘There’s More Than One of Everything’ – Time Complexity in Fringe.” In: Time’s Urgency. The Study of Time XVI, eds. Carlos Montemayor and Robert Daniel (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019), pp. 234-254.
CO-EDITED VOLUMES
- Sonia Front, Alicja Bemben, eds., ‘Hours like bright sweets in a jar’ – Time and Temporality in Literature and Culture (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).
- Sonia Front, Katarzyna Nowak, eds. Interiors: Interiority / Exteriority in Literary and
- Cultural Discourse (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).
