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