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Editorial Board

Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec 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 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). Her academic activities are situated at the nexus of psychology and sociology. Apart from her research, Neha is actively engaged in teaching, mentoring and outreach.
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 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 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 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