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literary scholar, medievalist; teaches English literature; his research interests include medieval drama and theatre, chivalric romance and its political meanings, the representations of the Trojan war in medieval literature, medieval religious writings, medieval mysticism, the reception of Boethius in literature, William Shakespeare, medievalism in modern novels.

Selected publications

• "'Asunder are both sinews and veines': Cruelty in English Medieval crucifixion plays" in Chapters from the History of Stage Cruelt , ed. Günter Ahrends, Hans-Jürgen Diller, FORUM MODERNES THEATER 17, Gunter Narr Verlag, Tubingen 1994: 9-22.

• "Expressing the ineffable: image and metaphor in Middle English Representations of the Mystical State (A cognitive comment)", in Proceedings of the 1999 April Conference, ed. E. Manczak, Krakow 2000: 83-87.

• "Dwór i zamek w średnioangielskiej literaturze arturiańskiej" in Dwór i Zamek w Sredniowieczu. Od XI do XV wieku, ed. Jacek Wiesiołowski, Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk, Poznan 2001: 226-229.

• "Orality and Literacy in Middle English Religious Literature on the Example of Medieval Lives of Christ" in STUDIA ANGLICA POSNANIENSIA 36 (2001): 275-288.

• "Saving the Legend: Andrzej Sapkowski's Re-reading of Tristan in La Maladie" in Of Remembrance the Keye: Medieval Literature and its Impact through the Ages, ed. Uwe Boeker, Britania Texts in English, Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main 2005: 321-330.

• "Body Transformation and Medieval Gender Politics: Chaucer's ‘Wife of Bath's Tale' and Gower's Tale of Florent'" in Fantatic Body Transformations in English Literature, ed Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Universitaetsverlag Winter: Heidelberg 2006: 11-18.

• „SZEKSPIR: 1. Teatr to świat, a świat to teatr. 2. Dramat Szekspirowski obrazem porządku świata. 3. W lesie uczuć – rola szekspirowskiej fantastyki. 4.Makbet w oczach widza teatru elżbietańskiego", Rozdział II [w] W świecie literatury i teatru. Sztuka współuczestnictwa, red. Ewa Łubieniewska, Kraków: Universitas 2006: 63-97 (współautorstwo z Matrą Kaperą).

• "'The boold I souke at his feet': The Christocentric Heritage of Medieval Affective Piety – A Historical Overview" in Global Perspectives on Middle English Literature, Language and Culture, ed. Noel Harold Kaylor and Richard Scott Nokes, Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications 2007: 59-91.

• "Blind Harry's The Wallace and Mel Gibson's Braveheart: what do medieval romance and Hollywod film have in common?"in Medievalisms: The Poetics of Literary Re-Reading, ed. Liliana Sikorska, Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 21, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 2008: 221-229.

• "‘That mikel lith in Havelok' – supernatural signs of authority in Middle English romance", in The Laurer of Oure Englische Tonge, ed. Marcin Krygier, Liliana Sikorska, Medieval English Mirror 5, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 2009: 107- 114.

• "A Knight's Journey into Purgatory: the Middle English Sir Owain as a Penitential Romance", Inozemna Philologia 2009. Issue 121: 259-266

• The Trojan Mirror: Middle English Narratives of Troy as Books of Princely Advice. Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main 2011.

• "'I cluppe and I cusse as I wood wore': Erotic imagery in Middle English Writings" in TEXT MATTERS - A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture. Volume 3, Issue 3, November 2013: 58-70.

• "Early Polish Echoes and Translations of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae" in Vernacular Traditions of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae. Ed. Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips, Medieval Institute Publications: Kalamazoo 2016.