Bio

Assistant professor at the Faculty of „Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw. He holds an M.A. in Cultural Studies – Mediterranean Civilisation (Faculty of “AL”, UW) and a postgraduate diploma in “The challenges of contemporary literature for children and youth” (UW). He is the secretary of the Laboratory for Semiotics (Faculty of “AL”, UW), a collaborator of the Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature (University of Wrocław) and a member of the European Children’s Literature Research Network. He is a co-initiator of Grow (with Rosalyn Borst and Chiara Malpezzi), an initiative that aims at stimulating transnational dialogue and collaboration among young scholars of children’s literature.

He was the principal investigator of research projects „Dziecięca książka informacyjna w XXI wieku: tendencje – metody badań – modele lektury” [Informational Children’s Book in the 21st Century: Trends – Research methods – Models of reading] (Preludium NCN, 2021–2024) and „Oczami dziecka. Zagłada w polskiej literaturze dziecięcej i młodzieżowej po roku 1989” [Through the Eyes of a Child. The Holocaust in Polish Children’s and Young Adult Literature after 1989] („Diamentowy Grant” MNiSW, 2016–2020). He received the scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists, the Foundation for Polish Science START scholarship, and the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich fellowship (twice). He is interested in children’s and YA culture and reception of classical antiquity. He also reviews children’s literature for “Kultura Liberalna.”

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