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Dr hab. Bożena Kucała, prof. UJ

Assistant professor, since 2014 head of the Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture in the Institute of English Studies. 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) in 2010 and 2022. Her doctoral thesis concerned The Concept of History and Its Representations in Selected Contemporary English Fiction. 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 and Irish fiction, the contemporary historical novel, neo-Victorian fiction.

2011-12 co-ordinated (with Dr Izabela Curyłło-Klag) a Visegrad project titled “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, 30th Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English “Transitions” 2022, seminars on contemporary fiction: “Repetition, Replication and Retelling in 21st Century Fiction” 2018, “Ellipsis: Silence, Absence and Noncommunication in Contemporary Literature” 2019, “Academic Fiction” 2019. A member of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE), European Society for the Study of English, Historical Fictions Research Network.

Teaches courses in English literature (Victorian to contemporary).

 

Selected publications:

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.


 

Selected articles and book chapters since 2015:

“Housing the Past: Victorian Houses in Neo-Victorian Fiction,” Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 36.1 (2022): 8-21.

“A Metafictional Reflection on Historiography: The Inclusiveness of Truth in Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project,” Acta Neophilologica 24.2 (2022), pp. 151-163.

“Under Irish and Foreign Skies: Home, Migration and Regrexit,” Porównania, 30.3 (2021): 93-106.

“The Magical and the Mundane in Graham Swift’s Here We Are,” New Horizons in English Studies 6 (2021), 63-78.

“The Past as a Multi-perspective Structure in Matthew Kneale’s English Passengers,” American and British Studies Annual, 13 (2020): 51-66.

“The Other Dickens and Other Victorians in Richard Flanagan’s Wanting,” Prague Journal of English Studies 8.1 (2019): 161-177.

„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.

“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.