Bio

He graduated in Polish philology from the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków as part of the Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities (MISH), where he studied also philosophy. In 2013, he obtained his doctorate in literary studies on the basis of a dissertation devoted to Pierre de la Ramée’s rhetorical theory and its reception in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He has been awarded START scholarship by the Foundation for Polish Science and the scholarships of Minister of Science and Higher Education. He joined the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” in 2013 as National Science Centre-funded postdoctoral fellow, since 2016 Assistant Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History.

His scholarly work deals with various aspects of intellectual culture of the 16th and 17th centuries, with a particular focus on centres and individuals based in Central and Eastern Europe. His main topics include the history of books and reading in the context of the history of science, the epistolary circulation of scientific thought, the participation of Central and Eastern European scholars in discussions related to calendar reform and the formation of scientific chronology, and manuscript culture in the 16th and 17th centuries. On behalf of the University of Warsaw, he participates in the construction of a research infrastructure for the area of religious studies (RESILIENCE) and is a member of the RETOPEA team, involved in developing a new formula for teaching about tolerance and religious peace using historical materials.

Since 2016 he serves as a chair of the Faculty’s Centre for the Study of the Reformation and Intellectual Culture in Early Modern Europe.

Areas of expertise: early modern literature, rhetoric, early modern intellectual history, history of the book and reading, history of the Reformation, research infrastructures for social sciences and humanities

• individual courses on the history of the book, controversies over the calendar and chronology, ecclesiastical history in early modern Europe, and the reception of Sarmatism in contemporary literature
• co-instructor at research proseminar (2nd year, BA level) and Reading of the Artistic Text course (1^st year, BA level)
• tutorial within the framework of Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences
• assistant doctoral supervisor (Maciej Talaga, PhD dissertation defended on 5.06.2023)

• series editor of “Reformation in Poland and East-Central Europe” (Sub Lupa)
• internal reviewer for domestic and international scholarly journals;
• external expert (National Library in Warsaw, National Agency of Academic Exchange NAWA, University of Vienna)

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