Tuesday 3.45 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Wednesday 11.30 a.m. - 12.15 p.m.
Current courses and activities at the University of Gdansk
The Icelandic sagas
Danish and Norwegian literature
Bachelor’s, master’s and PhD seminars
Master's seminars in American literature
Romanticism and Realism in American literature
Born: Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA, 1982
Associate Professor in Scandinavian Literature, Scandinavian Institute, University of Gdansk, 1992 to present
Academic employment prior to 1992:
Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Visiting Professor, University of California-Berkeley, California, USA
Visiting Professor, University of Caen, France
Visiting Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Dr. Hab. in Science of Literature, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland 2010
Associate Professor in American literature, University of Gdansk, October 1st 2019 to present
Member of the International Association for Scandinavian Studies
Member of the International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism
Member of the editorial committee of the international journal Forum for World Literature Studies, Wuhan – Shanghai – West Lafayette
Philosophy and literature
Literary theory
The modern novel, modern drama and modern poetry – American, British, Scandinavians
Kierkegaard and the Dialectics of Modernism. New York and Franfurt am Main: Peter Lang 1985
The Homeless Subject. Gdansk: University of Gdansk Development Foundation 1998
Henry David Thoreau in an Age of Reflection. Gdansk: University of Gdansk Development Foundation 2000
Mimesis and Metamorphosis. The Self in Contemporary American Fiction. Gdansk: University of Gdansk Press 2007
The Outcast. Twisting the Plot in Six English Novels. Olecko: Episteme 2008
Drama and repetition. Time in selected plays by Henrik Ibsen, Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett. Olecko: Episteme 2009
Depression and Utopia. A study of selected works by John Steinbeck. Olecko: Episteme 2010
Imagism in LausStrandby Nielsen’s Poetry. Olecko: Episteme 2011
Editor of a new edition of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and author of the Introduction. Oslo: Utopos Publishers 2021
Editor of a new edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and author of the Introduction. Oslo: Utopos Publishers 2021
Multiple articles on 20th and 21st century American, British and Scandinavian fiction and poetry