Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

The Department specialises in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature in English, especially British and Irish, also in comparative perspective. In 2016 the Department launched a new publishing series called Topografie (po)nowoczesności. Studia nad literaturą anglojęzyczną XX i XXI wieku / Topographies of (Post)modernity. Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature in English.

Main research topics:

  • Joseph Conrad
  • James Joyce
  • Wyndham Lewis and Witkacy (comparative studies)
  • the Great War in literature and culture
  • developments in the British novel after 1945
  • main contemporary British and Irish writers (e.g. Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, John Banville, Julian Barnes, Sebastian Barry, A.S. Byatt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, Colm Tóibín, etc.)
  • J.M. Coetzee
  • experimental literature (e.g. B.S. Johnson)
  • literature and film
  • theory of the novel
  • (auto)biographical genres
  • liberature and new media
  • memory and identity in literature
  • literary representations of trauma
  • the neo-Victorian novel
  • literary representations of history
  • terrorism in contemporary literature in English
  • migration and postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone literatures
  • the current global economic crisis in literature and film

dr hab. Bożena Kucała

e-mail: bozena.kucala@uj.edu.pl

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dr hab. Katarzyna Bazarnik

e-mail:  k.bazarnik@uj.edu.pl

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dr Izabella Curyłło-Klag

e-mail: izabela.curyllo-klag@uj.edu.pl

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dr Ewa Kowal

e-mail: ewa.kowal@uj.edu.pl

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