Prof. Monika MAZUREK, PhD (habilitatus)

Position:

• Professor of the Pedagogical University

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• N/A

Degrees:

• 2018; Habilitacja;
  Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie, Wydział Filologiczny;
  Tytuł pracy: “The Unknown Relatives: The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel”.

• 2002; Doktor nauk humanistycznych w zakresie literaturoznawstwa;
  Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Wydział Filologiczny;
  Thesis: “Childhood and the Myth of the Golden Age in Children’s Literature of the Victorian and Edwardian Period”;
  Supervisor: dr hab. Teresa Bela prof. UJ;
  Reviewer:  prof. dr hab. Marta Gibińska-Marzec, dr hab. Marek Gołębiowski.

Main field of research:

• English literature

Department:

• Department of English Literatures.

Research Interests:

• Victorian literature,
• Religion and literature,
• Victorian historical narrative (esp. on the 17th c.).

Teaching:

• British literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance/Literatura brytyjska od średniowiecza do renesansu
• British literature from the 17th c. to Romanticism/Literatura brytyjska od XVII w. do romantyzmu
• MA seminar/Seminaria dyplomowe
• Contemporary literature in English – prose/Współczesna literatura anglojęzyczna – proza

Membership in Academic Societies:

• British Association for Victorian Studies,
• Victorian Popular Fiction Association,
• International Society for Religion, Culture and Literature.

Membership of Boards of Scholarly Journals:

• N/A

Selected visiting lectures:

• 2019; Universita degli Studi di Sassari, Włochy

Main Publications:

Monographs:

• “The Unknown Relatives: The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel”. Routledge 2017.

Articles:

• “’Did Guy Fawkes Ever Live?’: The Evolving Perspectives on the Figure of Guy Fawkes in Victorian Literature” From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria: Readings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture. Vol. 6. Eds. Grażyna Bystydzieńska, Emma Harris. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2018. 211 – 218
• “George Borrow: The Scholar, the Gipsy, the Priest”. Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon. Eds. D. Downes, T. Ferguson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 71 – 86.
• “Perverts to Rome: Protestant Gender Roles and the Abjection of Catholicism”. Victorian Literature and Culture 22.3 (2016): 687 – 723.
• “Nurslings of Protestantism: The Questionable Privilege of Freedom in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette”, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia. 49.4 (2014): 37-54