Notes on Contributors
Justyna Fruzińska
PhD (2014), University of Łódź, Poland, is Assistant Professor at that university and teaches American literature, culture and history. Her publications include Emerson Goes to the Movies: Individualism in Walt Disney Company’s Post-1989 Animated Films (2014).
Dirk de Geest
PhD (1986), Habil (1993), is Professor of Dutch Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He has published widely on literary theory and Dutch poetry, e.g. Literatuur (2017, with Gillis Dorleijn and Pieter Verstraeten) and Basiel de Craene en de Vlaamse Poëziedagen (2017).
PhD (2017), Jagiellonian University in Cracow (Poland), is a researcher and a literary critic. He has published Nieuchronny plagiat (Wydawnictwo ibl pan, 2017), many literary reviews and several articles on copyright and politics of literature.
Michael Joyce
Irena Barbara Kalla
PhD (2000), Habil (2014), teaches literature at the Department of Dutch Studies, University of Wrocław. She has published widely on Dutch and Flemish literature, including Huisbeelden in de moderne Nederlandstalige poëzie (2012) and Minoes, Mini, Minu en andere katse streken. De internationale receptie van Annie M.G. Schmidts Minoes (2017; with Jan Van Coillie).
Kinga Kasperek
ma, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland). She has published articles on self-publishing and contemporary literature.
PhD (2012), teaches at the Department of Old Polish Literature, Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland). She has published articles on historicism, post-humanism and the relations between the humanities and the natural sciences.
Aleksandra Małecka
is a PhD candidate in Translation Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland). She is interested in translations of experimental, electronic and constrained literature. She is Vice President of Korporacja Ha!art, a literary foundation running a publishing house and other initiatives.
Piotr Marecki
PhD (2007), is Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland), lecturer at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School, Łódź, and Editor-in-Chief at his co-founded Ha!art Publishing House. His interests include post-1989 Polish literature & digital culture.
Dorota Michułka
PhD (1996), Habil (2014), Head of Methodology of Polish Literature and Language Teaching, University of Wrocław, Poland. She has published Ad usum Delphini: Edukacja literacka (2013) and articles on children’s literature and culture education. She is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Filoteknos.
Łukasz Mirocha
ma, is interested in media & software studies. He is a PhD candidate in Creative Media at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong sar, China. He has published books and articles, including Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation and Design (Macmillan, 2015) and The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital (Institute of Network Cultures, 2016).
Aleksandra Mochocka
PhD (2013), is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She has published on non-digital games and convergent culture, including “Blurring the Lines: De Profundis: Letters from the Abyss (2001) by Michał Oracz” (Homo Ludens 1(9)/2016).
Emilia Ohar
Mariusz Pisarski
PhD (2013), University of Warsaw, Poland, is Research Associate at the Intersemiotic and Intermedia Lab, translator and author of e-literature and interactive adaptations of Polish classics. His latest publication is “Digital postmodernism: From hypertexts to twitterature and bots” (World Literature Studies).
Patrycja Poniatowska
PhD (2000), taught at the Department of English Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland, and published on Dutch and English Renaissance literature. Currently, she is a translator, e.g. J. Zylinska, Bioetyka w epoce nowych mediów (Bioethics in the Age of New Media, 2013) and R. Shusterman, Myślenie ciała (Thinking through the Body, 2016).
Anna Ślósarz
PhD (2001), Habil (2016), Chair of Media and Cultural Studies, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland. She has authored four books, including Ideologiczne matryce. Lektury a ich konteksty. Postkomunistyczna Polska – postkolonialna Australia (Universitas, 2013) and Lektury szkolne po remediacji druku (forthcoming).
Dawn Stobbart
PhD (2015), Lancaster University, uk, is an Associate Lecturer at that university. She has published articles on the presence of narrative in videogames, and has a forthcoming monograph titled Horror and Videogames: From Amnesia to Zombies Run!
Jean Webb
PhD (1983), is Professor of International Children’s Literature at the University of Worcester, uk. She has published on a wide range of subjects including “Reading as protection and enlightenment in Marcus Zusak’s The Book Thief,” in Evelyn Arizpe (2015).
Indrė Žakevičienė
PhD (1998), Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, is Associate Professor of Lithuanian Literature and Comparative Studies at that university. She has
Agata Zarzycka
PhD (2007), University of Wrocław, Poland, is Assistant Professor in the Institute of English Studies at that university. She has published a monograph on role-playing games and articles on speculative fiction, transmedia and video games.