Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

Dissertation: “On the Margins of Experience: Rubbish in the Works of Miron Białoszewski and Tadeusz Różewicz.”

Specialties and research Interests: 20th century Polish literature and culture; intersections of literature and philosophy; epistemology of rubbish; philosophy of language; postwar Polish cinema; contemporary Czech cinema.

Current project: I am currently working on revising my dissertation for publication as a book. Based on the interdisciplinary approach investigating intersections of literature and philosophy, my project focuses on the philosophical potential inherent in the works of Miron Białoszewski and Tadeusz Różewicz and examines ways in which this potential is relevant to contemporary discussions in epistemology.

In addition to revising my dissertation, I am currently involved in two projects. The first centers on the idea of re-enchantment, which I analyze in the context of its literary expressions and view as an attempt to reformulate the philosophical framework underlying the split between realism and anti-realism. My second project, on which I have recently embarked, centers on morality and ethics in postwar Polish film, with a special focus on how cinematic works of this period explore the notion of moral conduct and foreground ambiguities of evil.