Head of the Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture in the Institute of English Studies since 2014. Graduate of the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University; also studied at the University of Kent, Canterbury, and the University of Edinburgh; recipient of The Corbridge Trust scholarship (Robinson College, University of Cambridge). Her habilitation book Intertextual Dialogue with the Victorian Past in the Contemporary Novel (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012) analysed intertextuality in neo-Victorian fiction. Research interests: contemporary British fiction, the historical novel, neo-Victorian fiction.
2011-12 co-ordinated (with Dr Izabela Curyłło-Klag) a Visegrad project entitled “Confronting the Burden of History. Anglophone Literature Studies in V4 countries.” Co-organised: 21st Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English in Kraków in 2012; „Travelling Texts: Encounters of Literatures” − an international conference on comparative literature, Kraków, 2014; seminars: “Repetition, Replication and Retelling in 21st Century Fiction,” Institute of English Studies, Kraków, 2018; “Ellipsis: Silence, Absence and Noncommunication in Contemporary Literature,” Institute of English Studies, Kraków, 2019; „Academic Fiction,” Institute of English Studies, Kraków, 2019. A member of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE), European Society for English Studies, Polish Association for Irish Studies, Historical Fictions Research Network.
Teaches courses in English literature (Victorian to contemporary).
Publications:
Monograph:
Intertextual Dialogue with the Victorian Past in the Contemporary Novel. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012.
Co-edited books:
Powieść brytyjska w XXI wieku: szkice. Red. Ewa Kowal, Bożena Kucała, Robert Kusek. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2018.
Travelling Texts: J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers. Ed. Bożena Kucała, Robert Kusek. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2014.
The Art of Literature, Art in Literature. Ed. Magdalena Bleinert, Izabela Curyłło-Klag, Bożena Kucała. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2014.
Confronting the Burden of History: Literary Representations of the Past. Ed. Izabela Curyłło-Klag, Bożena Kucała. Kraków: Universitas, 2012.
James Joyce and After: Writer and Time. Ed. Katarzyna Bazarnik, Bożena Kucała. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
Co-edited journal issues:
Litteraria Copernicana 3(35)/2020
Polish Journal of English Studies 5.2 (2019)
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 13.2 (2018)
Selected articles and book chapters since 2015:
“The Past as a Multi-perspective Structure in Matthew Kneale’s English Passengers,” American and British Studies Annual 13 (2020), 51-66.
„So How Did You Become a Writer?”: Self-reflexivity in Mothering Sunday,” Reading Graham Swift. Ed. Tomasz Dobrogoszcz and Marta Goszczyńska. Lexington Books: Lanham, 2020, 147-157.
“The Uses of Formulaic Language in Graham Swift’s England and Other Stories,” American, British and Canadian Studies 33.1 (2019), 118-134.
“The Other Dickens and Other Victorians in Richard Flanagan’s Wanting,” Prague Journal of English Studies 8.1 (2019), 161-177.
“Aporia, Vortex and the Hermeneutic Circle in A.S. Byatt’s The Biographer’s Tale,” Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 25.2 (2019), 66-80.
“Reanimating the English Historical Novel in the Twenty-first Century – the Case of David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet”, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 53 (2018), 203-222.
“David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: A History of the World as a (Re)Cycle,” Acta Philologica 52 (2018), 57-67.
„Mała apokalipsa na angielskiej prowincji. Wish You Were Grahama Swifta,” Powieść brytyjska w XXI wieku: szkice. Red. Ewa Kowal, Bożena Kucała, Robert Kusek. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2018, 95-108.
“Historia, historie i baśnie w The Children’s Book A.S. Byatt,” Powieść brytyjska w XXI wieku: szkice. Red. Ewa Kowal, Bożena Kucała, Robert Kusek. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2018, 81-94.
“David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: A History of the World as a (Re)Cycle,” Acta Philologica 52 (2018), 57-67.
“John Banville’s Ghosts: ‘A Different Way of Being Alive’,” Anglica Wratislaviensia 55 (2017), 71-84.
“Penelope Lively’s Autobiographical Memory,” Brno Studies in English 43.1 (2017), 157-169.
“The Myth of Paradise in Graham Swift’s Ever After,” Travelling Around Cultures: Collected Essays on Literature and Art. Ed. Zsolt Győri, Gabriella Moise. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, 132-143.
“Memory and the Splitting of the Self in John Banville’s The Sea,” Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature 40:1 (2016), 9-23.
„Obrazy na ścianie pamięci. Morze Johna Banville’a,” Powieść irlandzka w XXI wieku. Szkice. Red. Ewa Kowal, Robert Kusek. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2016, 43-55.
“Houses as Sites of Memory in Penelope Lively’s Writing,” Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 3/2016, 10-19.
“Reticence and Reclusion in William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault,” Spectrum of Emotions: From Love to Grief. Ed. Wojciech Drąg and Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016, 169-178.
"Unspoken Dialogues and Non-listening Listeners in Graham Swift’s Fiction,” Brno Studies in English 41.1 (2015), 117-129.
“Ignorance Is Strength: Kazuo Ishiguro’s and Graham Swift’s Argument against Knowledge,” American and British Studies Annual 8 (2015), 74-83.
”Writers at the Gate: Last Pronouncements in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello and Diary of a Bad Year,” J.M. Coetzee: Dead Ends and Beyond. Ed. Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim and Tomasz Wiśniewski. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2015, 81-93.
„Intimations of Mortality and Recollections of Early Happiness in Graham Swift’s Novels,”
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 10.4 (2015), 359-368.