Łowczanin Agnieszka, dr hab.

About

Agnieszka Łowczanin is an associate professor in the Department of British Literature and Culture at the University of Łódź, Poland, where she teaches courses on British literature, culture and history. She specialises in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction and has published articles on numerous authors of this period, focusing on the politics, poetics and paradoxes of the Gothic. Her recent academic interests centre on cross-cultural exchanges in the Gothic, and on the intersections of the Gothic, feminism and eco-criticism.

Supervised theses:
Supervisor of BA and MA theses in British literature and culture, especially focusing on manifestations and transformations of Gothicism from a postcolonial, feminist and ecocritical perspective.
Academic awards and international research:
Rector’s Award 2019 for the publication of a monograph A Dark Transfusion: The Polish Literary Response to Early English Gothic. Anna Mostowska Reads Ann Radcliffe. Berlin: Peter Lang (2018).

Publications

Orcid ID: 0000-0001-6994-4593

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6994-4593

Monograph:

2018 A Dark Transfusion: The Polish Literary Response to Early English Gothic. Anna Mostowska Reads Ann Radcliffe. Berlin: Peter Lang (ISBN:978-3-631-70481-3; DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-07093-4)

Co-edited collections:

2019 Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories. Eds. Agnieszka Łowczanin, Katarzyna Małecka. New York: Routledge (ISBN: 978-1-138-31100-8)

2014 All that Gothic. Eds. Agnieszka Łowczanin, Dorota Wiśniewska. Frankfurt: Peter Lang (ISBN 978-3-631-63887-3)

Journal articles and chapters in monographs:

2019 “’A Romance Fit for the Taste of Our Era’: Anna Mostowska and the First Polish Gothic Stories.” Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories. Eds. Agnieszka Łowczanin, Katarzyna Małecka. New York: Routledge. 19-37.

2017 “Multiculturalism, the Foreign and Early Gothic Novels.” Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self: Literature and Culture Studies. Eds. J. Mydla, M. Poks, L. Drong. Springer. 45-56. (ISBN 978-3-319-61048-1, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-61049-8)

2016 “Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and a Disorder of Ethnic Identity.” Diversity and Homogeneity: The Politics of Nation, Ethnicity and Gender. Eds. Joanna Kruczkowska, Paulina Mirowska. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 116-125.

2016 “The Monk by M. G. Lewis: Revolution, Religion and the Female Body.” Text Matters. Vol. 6. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. 15-34. (ISSN: 2083-2931, e-ISSN: 2084-574X)

2015 “Walpole, Lewis and Shelley: Dreams and the Literary Gothic Tradition.” Dreams, Phantasms and Memories. Eds. Wojciech Owczarski, Zofia Ziemann. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. 271-282.

2015 “Body politics in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian.” Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny. LXII, no. 4. Warszawa: PAN, Wydział i Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych. 691-702. (ISSN 0023-5911)

2015 “Dangers of ‘the vacant mind’ in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho.” The Enchantress of Words, Sounds and Images. Anniversary Essays on Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823). Red. Jakub Lipski, Jacek Mydla. Palo Alto: Academica Press. 105-122. (ISBN 978-1-936320-96-7)

2014 “Convention, Repetition and Abjection: The Way of the Gothic.” Text Matters. A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture. Vol. 4. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. 184-193. (ISSN 2083-2931)

2014 “Antonia and the Male Gaze: Imaging Femininity in M. G. Lewis’s The Monk.” All that Gothic. Eds. Agnieszka Łowczanin, Dorota Wiśniewska. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 124-137.

2013 “Damsels and Demons: Transgressive Females from Clarissa to ‘Carmilla.’” Studies in English Drama and Poetry. Reading Subversion and Transgression. Vol. 3. Red. Joanna Kazik, Paulina Mirowska. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. 189-199.

2012 “’I have a Strong Propensity in Me to Begin this Chapter Nonsensically’ – Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne and A Cock and Bull Story by Michael Winterbottom.” The Language of Sense, Common-Sense and Nonsense. Red. Ewa Borkowska, Tomasz Burzyński, Maciej Nowak. Bielsko-Biała: Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczno-humanistyczna. 177-186.

2012 “From Woolf to Wollstonecraft and Back: Ladies and Gentlemen, Schooling and Snobbery.” From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture. Eds. Grażyna Bystydzieńska, Emma Harris. Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich. 317-326.

2012 “Cinematic Carmillas: Projecting Subversion.” Against and Beyond: Subversion and Transgression in Mass Media, Popular Culture and Performance. Eds. Magdalena Cieślak, Agnieszka Rasmus. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 150-165.

2010 “Inhaling and Breathing out the Past in Changing Heaven.” Bringing Landscape Home in the Writings of Jane Urquhart. Eds. Dorota Filipczak, Agata Handley. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. 87-92.

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