Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Scottish and English poetry and prose, with a particular interest in ecocriticism informed by phenomenology. 

Książki i rozdziały w książkach: 

Monograph

Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2019.

Book chapters 

“A.L. Kennedy,” In: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish literature / Bradford Richard [i in.] (eds.), vol. 1, 2021, ISBN 978-1-119- 09979-6 , pp. 461-469, DOI:10.1002/9781118902264.ch44 

“Irish women poets,” In: A companion to contemporary British and Irish poetry, 1960-2015 / Görtschacher Wolfgang, Malcolm David (eds.), 2021, ISBN 978-1-11884-320-8, pp. 349-358 

“ ‘Unco proud o’ its difference’: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Jackie Kay’s Writing.” Between Cultures, Between Languages: Essays in Honour of Professor Aniela Korzeniowska, edited by Izabela Szymańska and Agnieszka Piskorska, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper, 2020, pp. 219-27.

“‘Huntress, Slayer, White Unmortal Queyne’: Women in the Work of Sydney Goodsir Smith.” Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work, edited by Richie McCaffery, Brill, 2020, pp. 92-102.

“‘A Temporary, Sometimes Fleeting Thing’: Home in John Burnside’s Poetry.” John Burnside. Contemporary Critical Perspectives, edited by Ben Davies, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, pp. 39-52.

“ ‘The Wider Rootedness’: John Burnside’s Embodied Sense of Place.” The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature, edited by Monika Szuba and Julian Wolfreys, Palgrave, 2019, pp. 125-144.

“‘What Consciousness Grasps’: Silent Knowing and the World in Hardy’s Poetry.” Reading 19th Century Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller, edited by Julian Wolfreys and Monika Szuba, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, pp. 83-99.

“In Wonderment: David Constantine and the Commonplace.” In Wonder, Love and Praise: Approaches to Poetry, Theology and Philosophy, edited by Martin Potter, Małgorzata Grzegorzewska, Jean Ward, Peter Lang, 2019, pp. 171-84.

“ ‘Beyond our Illusory Homelands’: Representability, Deception, and Epistemological Angst

in John Burnside’s A Summer of Drowning.” Crime Fiction. A Critical Casebook, edited by Stephen Butler and Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish, Peter Lang, 2018, pp. 101-116.

“Burnside’s Bestiary: The Significance of Birds and Other Animals in John Burnside’s Poetry.” Polish Scholars on Scottish Writers. An Interpretative Collage, edited by Aniela Korzeniowska and Izabela Szymańska, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper, 2018, pp. 117-34. 

“ ‘The poem’s muscle, blood and lymph’: David Constantine’s poetic bodies. Poetic Revelations: Word Made Flesh Made Word. The Power of the Word, Vol. III, edited by Mark Burrows, Jean Ward and Małgorzata Grzegorzewska, Routledge, 2017, pp. 179-94.

“ ‘Peering into the dark machinery’: Modernity, Perception, and the Self in John Burnside’s Poetry.” New Critical Thinking, edited by Julian Wolfreys, Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp. 23-35.

“ ‘That essentially Scottish virtue of openness’: Literary and Philosophical References in John Burnside’s Poetry.” Scottish Culture: Dialogue and Self-Expression, edited by Aniela Korzeniowska and Izabela Szymańska, Semper, 2016, pp. 47-59. 

“Twarzą w twarz.” W trosce o jakość w ilości: tutoring oksfordzki w Uniwersytecie Gdańskim, edited by Beata Karpińska-Musiał, Wydawnictwo Libron, 2016, pp. 61-71. 

“ ‘Little tongues of life’: David Constantine’s Sustained Associations between the Sound and the Sense.” Sound Is/ As Sense. Essays on Modern British and Irish Poetry, edited by Wolfgang Görtschacher and David Malcolm, vol. 6, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2016, pp. 169-79.

“John Berger’s Endless Text: Aesthetics of the Fragment, the Nouveau Roman, and Storytelling.” On John Berger: Telling Stories, edited by Ralf Hertel and David Malcolm, Brill Rodopi, 2016, pp. 129-42.

“Burning to Tell The Tale: Negotiating Aesthetics and Politics in The Burning Book.” Maggie Gee: Critical Essays, edited by Sarah Dillon and Caroline Edwards, Gylphi, 2015, pp. 31-50.

“Playing with Mud: Literary Ghosts in Michèle Roberts’ Prose Writing.” “Curators of Memory”: Women’s Voices in Literature in English, edited by Liliana Sikorska, Katarzyna Bronk, Marta Frątczak and Joanna Jarząb, Wydział Anglistyki UAM, 2015, pp. 75-89. 

“ ‘I think of them as guests’: John Burnside’s Encounters with Nature.” Environmental and Ecological Readings. Nature, Human and Posthuman Dimensions in Scottish Literature & Arts (XVIII-XXI century), edited by Philippe Laplace, Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2015, pp. 201-216. 

“Bloody Typical: Genre, Intertextuality, and the Gaze in The Cutting Room (2002) by Louise Welsh.” Crime Scenes: Modern Crime Fiction in an International Context, edited by Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish and Urszula Elias, Peter Lang, 2014, pp. 149-60. 

“ ‘Then my tongue was flame’: Myth, Modernism and Metamorphosis in H.D.’s & CAD’s Poetry.” Poets of the Present/Poets of the Past, edited by Monika Szuba and Tomasz Wiśniewski, between.pomiędzy series, vol. 4, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2013, pp. 53-61. 

“ ‘Wówczas mój język zapłonął’: mit, modernizm i metamorfoza w poezji H.D i Carol Ann Duffy.” Poeci współcześni. poeci przeszłości, edited by Monika Szuba and Tomasz Wiśniewski, between.pomiędzy series, vol. 3, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2013, pp. 149-58. 

“Inside and Outside: Scottishness, Betweenness, and Plurality in Jackie Kay’s Poetry.” Facets  of Scottish Identity, edited by Aniela Korzeniowska and Izabela Szymańska, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper, 2013, pp. 97-109. 

“ ‘Of Course He Has No Story’: Textes pour rien/Texts for Nothing. Back to the Beckett Text, edited by Tomasz Wiśniewski, between.pomiędzy series, vol. 2, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2012, pp. 83-92.

“ ‘Niespokojni mężczyźni i szczęk wiatru obijającego się o poluzowane żelastwo’ – brytyjskie pisarki o wojnie.” Wojna i postpamięć, edited by Zbigniew Majchrowski and Wojciech Owczarski, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2011, pp. 199-205.

“Re-examining the Past, Renegotiating Identities: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow

Sun (2006).” Empty treasure chests dumped from departed ships. Re-mapping (Post)Colonialism in Art and Literature in English, edited by Liliana Sikorska, Peter Lang, 2011, pp. 97-103. 

“Scots in the South Seas: Romanticism in Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Candia McWilliam’s Debatable Land.” Margins and Centres Reconsidered, edited by Barbara Klonowska and Zofia Kolbuszewska, Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, 2008, pp. 189-195.

“Turyści czy włóczędzy: motyw podróży we współczesnej literaturze szkockiej.” Tożsamość i odrębność w Zjednoczonej Europie (II). Motyw podróży w literaturze anglo- i niemieckojęzycznej, edited by Grzegorz Moroz and Mirosław Ossowski, Wydawnictwo Wszechnicy Mazurskiej, 2007, pp. 247-258.

Studia i artykuły: 

 Journal articles

“‘In the early Anthropocene’: Witnessing Environmental Emergency in Kathleen Jamie’s Essays,” Revue Électronique d’Études sur le Monde Anglophone/E-rea, “Understanding, Acknowledging, Representing Environmental Emergency”, vol.18, no.2, 2021, https://journals.openedition.org/erea/12183

“Archipelagic Scotland: The Poetics of Islands and Island Poetry,” Tekstualia. Palimpsesty Literackie Artystyczne Naukowe, vol. 2, no. 6, 2020, pp. 27-36, DOI:10.5604/01.3001.0014.5177 

“ ‘A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust’: The World and Self in Thomas Hardy’s Poems.” Victoriographies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018, pp. 49-66.

“Od Papierów adopcyjnych do Fiere: twórczość Jackie Kay a problem wielokulturowości szkockiej.” Tekstualia, vol. 51, no. 4, 2017, pp. 75-86.

“ ‘The terra incognita of the whole’: John Burnside’s Writing and the Entangled Bank of Culture.” Litteraria Pragensia, vol. 27, no. 53, 2017, pp. 84-100. 

“Here and There: Mapping John Berger’s Writing in Here Is Where We Meet.”
Moderne Sprachen, no. 57, 2013, pp. 147-59.

“Struggling to Remember, Remembering to Struggle: Three Novels by Contemporary Scottish Women Authors.” Ars Aeterna. Art in Memory, Memory in Art, vol.1, no. 2, 2009, pp. 76-84.