academic teacher, specialist in Anglophone, French and Hispanic literature
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
North American, South American, Spanish and French postmodern detective fcition, southern gothic, noir and neo-noir, hard-boiling metaphysics, time and space in modernist and postmodernist literature.
Education/degrees:
D.Litt. (doktor habilitowany) in Literature (Nicolaus Copernicus University) (2021)
PhD in Literature (University of Silesia) (2011)
MA in English (Nicolaus Copernicus University) (2004)
MA in French (University of Warsaw) (2021)
Postgraduate studies in French teaching (Cumbria University, UK) (2019)
Polish, British and Irish Association of American Studies
Crime Studies Network
"Plejada" - Polish Association of French Philologists
Rector's award for scientific achievements (Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities)
crime fiction, postmodern theatre and film, experimental art, travels, Polish music from the 1980s
North American , South American, Spanish and French postmodern detective fiction, southern gothic, noir and neo-noir, hardboling metaphysics, hard-boling metaphysics, time and space in modersnit and postmodernist literature, translation studies, especially novel and poetry.
BOOKS (2)
Spatial, Temporal and Identity Labyrinths in American and French Metaphysical Detective Novels. 2020. Siedlce: Siedlce University Press. ISBN: 978-83-66541-23-8 (p.316)
"Narrative and Narrated Homicide": The Vision of Contemporary Civilisation in Martin Amis's Postmodern Detective Fiction. 2015. Siedlce: Siedlce University Press. ISBN: 978-83-64415-01-2 (p.249).
Published edited books: 5
EDITED BOOKS (selected)
Stolarek, Joanna & Jarosław Wiliński (eds.). 2017. Cross-cultural Perspectives in Language, Literatuew and Art. San Diego: AE AcademicPublishing.com. ISBN: 978-68346-100-5 (p.206).
Wiliński, Jarosław & Joanna Stolarek (eds.). 2017. Norm and Anomaly in Literature, Language and Culture. In Kiełtyka, Robert & Agnieszka Uberman (eds.) Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Vol 10. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. ISSN: 2364-7558 (p.182).
Published chapters in monographs: 16
CHAPTERS IN MONOGRAPHS
"The Violence of Grace as a Norm in the Process of Spiritual Cleansing in Flannery O'Connor's Selected Works". 2017. In Wiliński, Jarosław & Joanna Stolarek (eds.) Norm and Anomaly in Language, Literature and Culture. In Kiełtyka Robert and Agnieszka Uberman (eds.) Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. ISSN: 2364-7558. 159-170.
"Self-expressiona nd sexual repression in Joyce Carol Oates's "The White Cat" and Beasts". 2017. In Kimak, Izabela & Julia Nikiel (eds.) ExEe(y). Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-millennial North American Literature and Visual Culture. In Basiuk Tomasz (ed.) New Americanists in Poland. Vol. 9. Frankfurt am Main. ISSN: 2191-2254. 71-81.
"American South in the Face of European Fascism in Kathernie Anne Porter's Ship of Fools and Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter". 2017. In Stolarek, Joanna & Jarosław Wiliński (eds.) Cross-cultural Perspectives in Language, Literature and Art. San Diego: AE AcademicPublishing.com. ISBN: 978-68346-101-2. 45-66.
Published articles: 16
ARTICLES (selected)
"Fluid identities and social dislocation in the face of crime, guilt and ethics in Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley and The Tremor of Forgery". 2019. Brno Studies in English. Vol 44, No. 2., 145-156. Masaryk University Press. ISSN: 0524-6881.
"Alienation and dislocation versus homeliness and norm in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. 2018. In Wiesław Godzik and Mirosław Filiciak (eds.) Kultura popularna. Vol 1, No 55. 56-65. Warsaw: SWPS Academica. ISSN: 1644-8340
"Quest for values in T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men and Ash Wednesday. 2014. In Maria Ryś (ed.) Values and their Meaning. Vol. 17. 234-243. FIDES ET RATIO - Academic Quartelry of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University. ISSN: 2082-7067 1(14)2014.
"Sociological and psychological; aspects of crime in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood". 2013. In Maria Ryś (ed.) Interpersonal Relationships: Between the Sacred and the Profane. Vol. 15. 193-200. FIDES ET RATIO - Academic Quarterly of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University. ISSN: 2082-7067 3(15)2013.
"Ironic, grotesque, farcical and tragic depiction of totalitarianism in Martin Amis's selected works". 2013. In Andrzej Weseliński (ed.) Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies 22/1. 71-81. Warsaw: Warsaw University Press. ISSN: 0860-5734.
RECENZJE
"Afryka w oczach Polaków" 2019. In Bernadetta Kuczera-Chachulska, Tomasz Korpysz, Małgorzata Łukaszuk, Ewa Szczeglacka-Pawłowska and Joanna Trzcionka (eds.) Colloquia Litteraria. Vol. 6. Warsaw: Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University Press. ISSN: 1896-3455. 129-133.