A faculty member of the Department of The History of British Literature and Culture in the Institute of English Studies. She graduated from the Jagiellonian University and then completed Post-Degree Studies in Literary Translation at the UNESCO Chair for Translation Studies at the Jagiellonian University. In 2018 she defended her PhD thesis on the works and reception of Frances Burney and began her work in the Institute of English Studies. She has received two awards of the Rector of the Jagiellonian University – for outstanding research and didactic achievements.

Her research interests focus on the novel of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain and drama from the times of Shakespeare until the early nineteenth century. She is also interested in intertextuality and adaptation studies. She is a member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

At the Institute of English Studies she teaches courses on British literature from the early Middle Ages until Romanticism. She is an academic coordinator of the European Joint Master’s Programme in English and American Studies.

Monographs

Frances Burney and Her Readers. The Negotiated Image. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020.

Edited Collections

Eighteenth-Century Transplantations: New Literary Lives, Forms and Contexts, edited by A. Paluchowska-Messing, J. Lipski and J. Maciulewicz, London and New York: Routledge (forthcoming)

Romantic Dialogues and Afterlives, edited by M. Coghen and A. Paluchowska-Messing, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2020.

Selected articles and book chapters

Gulliver travels to Krakow: on cultural cannibalism and transplanting texts across time and space, in A. Paluchowska-Messing, J. Lipski and J. Maciulewicz (eds), Eighteenth-Century Transplantations: New Literary Lives, Forms and Contexts. London and New York: Routledge (forthcoming)

Eighteenth-Century Transplantations: Concepts and Contexts (with J. Lipski and J. Maciulewicz), in A. Paluchowska-Messing, J. Lipski and J. Maciulewicz (eds), Eighteenth-Century Transplantations: New Literary Lives, Forms and Contexts. London and New York: Routledge (forthcoming)

Frances Burney (Re) reads The Winter’s Tale: Women’s ‘Nature’ and Sociability in Evelina and The Woman-Hater, in Literature and History, Vol. 32, Issue 2 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1177/030619732312096

A ‘Passive Spectactress’? Frances Burney and the Eighteenth-Century Writer as Social Activist, in S. Mayer and R. Scobie (eds), Authorship, Activism and Celebrity. Art and Action in Global Literature. New York, London, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, pp. 124-135.

Frances Burney - krótka historia powieściopisarki, która spóźniła się na romantyzm [Frances Burney - a short history of a writer who was late for Romanticism], in M. Łuczyńska-Hołdys, M. Coghen (eds), Nowe oblicza romantyzmu brytyjskiego: eseje na dwusetlecie. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2022, pp. 205-225.

Textual Intercourses of Women Playwrights with Their Audiences at the Turn of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, in M. Coghen, A. Paluchowska-Messing (eds), Romantic Dialogues and Afterlives. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2020, pp. 253-275.

“The darts to wound with endless love!” On Hannah Cowley’s response to Frances Burney’s Evelina, in Studia Anglica Posnaniensia. Vol. 54 (2019), pp. 43-57.

A Friend in Need? Friends and Frances Burney’s Place in the Literary Canon, in E. Kowal and R. Kusek (eds), The Politics and Poetics of Friendship. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2017, pp. 181-195.