Alicja Piechucka is Assistant Professor in the Department of North American Literature and Culture. She was a PhD student in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Łódź. She came runner-up in the British Vogue Talent Contest. She received her PhD in American literature from the University of Łódź. Her doctoral thesis was on T. S. Eliot’s poetry. Her academic interests include American modernist poetry and contemporary American prose. Much of her research focuses on comparative studies of American and French literature. She is also interested in the visual arts and American visual culture as well as literary criticism. As a critic, she is a regular contributor to Nowe Książki and Kultura Liberalna, and earlier to Tygiel Kultury.

Orcid/PBN profile

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Education

2006: Doctor of Philosophy in literary studies; degree issued by the Council of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Łódź on June 30, 2006, on the basis of the doctoral dissertation entitled The Last of the Symbolists: A Comparative Study of T. S. Eliot and  the French Symbolist Poets

Doctoral supervisor: Prof. Agnieszka Salska, University of Łódź

Reviewers: Prof. Tadeusz Sławek, University of Silesia; Prof. Jerzy Jarniewicz, University of Łódź; Prof. Stephanie Branson, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

2001: Master’s degree in English philology; degree issued by the Institute of English Studies at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Łódź on the basis of the thesis The Influence of the French Symbolists on the Poetry of T. S. Eliot

Supervisor: Prof. Agnieszka Salska, University of Łódź

Awards for academic achievements

2017: The Chancellor of the University of Łódź Award for Research Excellence 

Thesis/dissertation supervision (topics)

Supervisor of several dozen bachelor’s and master’s theses in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture