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Editorial Board

Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec (ORCID: 0000-0003-3025-6413) is Professor for Literature at the University of Warsaw.

Research interests:

  • Medieval culture, especially literary staging of space,
  • Interaction between literature and the visual arts,
  • Medieval paradigms from a posthuman point of view.

Recent publications:

  • Vagabunden – Flüchtlinge – Eroberer. Vormoderne Migrationsprozesse zwischen geschichtlichen Metanarrativen und Postkolonialismus (= Interkulturelle Rhisome, 1). Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz 2022 (Co-Editor: Paweł Piszczatowski). https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/titel_7072.ahtml
  • Femmes et le savoir / Women and Knowledge / Frauen und Wissen. Paris: Classiques Garnier 2020 (Co-Editors: Dariusz Krawczyk, Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys, Paweł Piszczatowski, Małgorzata Sokołowicz).
  • Transgressionen des Heiligen. Sexualität und Geschlechtlichkeit im transreligiösen Rhizom der europäischen Mystik des Mittelalters. In: XXI. Congress of the ICLA – Proceedings, vol. 3: Discourses on Nations and Identities, ed. Daniel Syrovy, Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter 2021 (Co-Author: Paweł Piszczatowski). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110642018-025

Paweł Piszczatowski (ORCID: 0000-0003-4163-9938) is Professor for Literature at the University of Warsaw.

Research interests:

  • pre-modern thinking, especially medieval mysticism and its reception in the post-secular world,
  • Poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries,
  • Posthumanism and New Materialism.

Recent publications: 

  • Diálogos. Das Wort im Gespräch. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2018 (Editor). 
  • Języki milczenia. Literatura o traumie i postpamięci Zagłady. Warszawa: WUW 2020 (Editor).
  • Transgressionen des Heiligen. Sexualität und Geschlechtlichkeit im transreligiösen Rhizom der europäischen Mystik des Mittelalters. In: XXI. Congress of the ICLA – Proceedings, vol. 3: Discourses on Nations and Identities, eds. Daniel Syrovy, Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter 2021 (Co-Author: Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110642018-025

Neha Khetrapal holds a PhD in Linguistics from Macquarie University, Australia. She is an associate professor at the Jindal Institute of Behavioral Sciences, O.P. Jindal Global University (India).

Research interests:

  • Psychology of religion and spirituality
  • Environmental sociology
  • Cultural psychology

Recent publications:

  • “Our Brightly-Lit Future – Exploring the Potential for Astrotourism in Khajuraho (India),” The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien 2022 (Co-Author: Divya Bhatia). https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12742
  • “Under the spell of SARS-CoV-2: A closer look at the sociopolitical dynamics,”
    History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43, no. 2 (2022), 1–4 (Co-Author: Gunjan Khera). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00427-1

Piotr Kociumbas (ORCID: 0000-0001-9027-5953) is Professor of Literature at the University of Warsaw.

Research interests:

  • Culture of the Early Modern Period,
  • Border areas between literature, theology, music and visual arts,
  • Scholarly editing.

Recent publications:

  • Arnold, Christoph. In: Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1620–1720. Literaturwissenschaftliches Verfasserlexikon, eds. Stefanie Arend, Bernhard Jahn, Jörg Robert, Robert Seidel, Johann Anselm Steiger, Stefan Tilg, Friedrich Vollhardt, Bd. 1, Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter 2019. https://www.degruyter.com/document/database/VDBO/entry/vdbo.vl17.A43/html
  • Marcin Kromer: Rozmowy Dworzanina z Mnichem (= Staropolski dramat i dialog religijny, 5), Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL 2021 (Co-Editor: Justyna Dąbkowska-Kujko).
  • Danzig als Zentrum der Orgelpredigt im Preußen Königlichen Anteils. In: Orgelpredigten in Europa (1600–1800). Musiktheoretische, theologische und historische Perspektiven, eds. Katelijne Schiltz, Lucinde Braun, Regensburg: Schnell und Steiner 2022.

Christian Struck (ORCID: 0000-0002-4306-6603) is a PhD in German Literature and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University.

Research interests:

  • the intersection of objecthood, semiotics, and narration
  • phenomenology, process/event ontology, and new materialism
  • media and the built environment, particularly in the context of international relations and human rights

Recent publications:

  • “Schaum und Vermächtnis. Das unsichtbare Element des Einflusses in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Der Magnetiseur,” Hoffmann-Jahrbuch 2020, 68–84.
  • “Meridiane und Tropen. Zur performativen Poetologie Paul Celans,” Weimarer Beiträge 66 (2020), 568–584.
  • James Elkins: “Markierungen, Spuren, traits, Konturen, orli und splendores.” In: Sichtbarkeiten 3: Umreißen. Eigenwege der Zeichnung, eds. Mira Fliescher, Lina Maria Stahl, Elena Vogman, Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes 2014, 17–60 (Translator).

Justyna Włodarczyk (ORCID: 0000-0002-8808-1583) is Professor for Literature at the University of Warsaw, Chair of the Department of North American Cultures and Literatures.

Research interests:

  • animal studies, with a particular focus on cultural representations of human-animal interactions (19th–21st centuries),
  • intersections of animal studies, disability studies and affect studies, with an emphasis on conceptualizations of non-human animals as technological devices,
  • biopolitics.

Recent publications:

  • Genealogy of Obedience: Reading North American Dog Training Literature, 1850s–2000s. Boston–Leiden: Brill 2018.
  • “When Pigs Fly: Service Dogs, Emotional Support Animals and the Politics of Legitimacy Across Species Boundaries”, Medical Humanities, 45 (2019), 82–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2018-011625
  • “My Dog and I, We Need the Park: More-Than-Human Agency and the Emergence of Dog Parks in Poland, 2015–2020”, cultural geographies, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474020987249