My research interests include Gothic fiction, cognitive poetics, narratology and the Anglo-Irish short story.

Selected publications

Books

The Ascent of the Soul. A Study in the Poetic Persona of Henry Vaughan’s ‘Silex Scintillans’. Lublin: UMCS 1992.

Reading as Interpretation. Towards a Narrative Theory of Fictional World Construction. Lublin: UMCS. 2010.

Articles

Words as Narrative Anchors. Meaning Construction and Conceptual Blending in Short Story Analysis. A study in "Guests of the Nation" by Frank O'Connor. Words in Contexts: From Linguistic Forms to Literary Functions. Ed. Przemysław Łozowski and Anna Włodarczyk-Stachurska. Radom: Wyd. Politechniki Radomskiej. 2012. 202-212.

Between a Fragment and a Whole. A Cognitive Analysis of the Gothic Fragment as a Literary Genre. A Case Study of Anna Laetitia Aikin’s ‘Sir Bertrand: A Fragment.’ Crossroads in Literature and Culture. Ed. Jacek Fabiszak, Ewa Urbaniak Rybicka, Bartosz Wolski. Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Verlag 2013. 341-350.

The Gothic Canon: Contexts, Features, Relationships, Perspectives. Expanding the Gothic Canon: Studies in Literature, Film and New Media. Ed. Anna Kędra-Kardela i Andrzej S. Kowalczyk, Frankfurt: Peter Lang 2014. 13-49. (co-authored with Andrzej S. Kowalczyk)

Re)enter the Author: A Cognitive Analysis of Literary Communication. [w:] Face to Face, Page to Page. PASE Papers in Literature, Language and Culture. Ed. Dorota Babilas, Agnieszka Piskorska, Paweł Rutkowski. Warszawa: UW. 2014. 439-452. (co-authored with Henryk Kardela)

Iconicity and the Literary Text: A Cognitive Analysis. Cognitive Linguistics in the Making. Ed Kinga Szozda-Rudzka and Aleksander Szwedek. Frankfurt: Peter Lang 2014. 89-103.

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130: A Conceptual Integration Analysis of Parody. British and American Studies. vol. xxi, Timisoara 2015. 173-181.

The Gothic Space Revisited. Visions and Revisions. Studies in Literature and Culture. Ed Grzegorz Czemiel, Justyna Galant, Anna Kędra-Kardela, Aleksandra Kędzierska, Marta Komsta Peter Lang 2015. 169-179.

A Cognitive Poetic Analysis of Intertextuality: David Lodge’s The British Museum is Falling Down. From Philosophy of Fiction to Cognitive Poetics.199-216. Ed. Piotr Stalmaszczyk. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 2016. 199-216.

Fear in Gothic Fiction: A Cognitive Poetic Analysis of Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber." Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich. 2016. LIX (59/117). 13-23.