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Employment (1)

University of Białystok: Białystok, PL

2015-10-01 to present | Assistant Profesor (Faculty of Philology)
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Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

Education and qualifications (2)

Warsaw University: Warsaw, PL

2004 to 2010 | PhD (Institute of English Studies)
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University of Warsaw: Warsaw, PL

1995 to 2001 | MA (Institute of English Studies)
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Professional activities (4)

International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts: Greenville, NC, US

2021 to present
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Polish Association for Canadian Studies: Białystok, Polska, PL

2019 to present
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Creatio Fantastica: Kraków, PL

2018 to 2020 | Scientific Editor
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Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies: Białystok, Polska, PL

2015 to 2020 | Editorial Board Member
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Funding (1)

Mediewalizm i pamięć w fantastyce historycznej Guya Gavriela Kaya

2021-04 to 2024-03 | Grant
National Science Center (Krakow, PL)
GRANT_NUMBER: 2020/37/B/HS2/02219
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Works (27)

A look‐back from the future: Anthropogenic crisis and memory in N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy

Orbis Litterarum
2024-06 | Journal article
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Indigenous Memory in the Decaying World: Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and Hunting by Stars

Roczniki Humanistyczne
2024-06-06 | Journal article
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Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction: Narrating the Future

2021 | Other | Editor
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Contributors: Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun; Tereza Dědinová; Weronika Łaszkiewicz
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The Anthropocene and Speculative Fiction: Introduction

Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction: Narrating the Future
2021 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun; Tereza Dědinová; Weronika Łaszkiewicz
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The Other Middle Ages: Cultural memory and alterity in Guy Gavriel Kay's "The Lions of Al-Rassan"

Significant Others. Aspects of Deviance and Difference in Premodern Court Cultures
2021 | Book chapter | Author
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Remembering the Romance: Medievalist Romance in Fantasy Fiction by Guy Gavriel Kay and Charles de Lint

Medievalism in English Canadian Literature : from Richardson to Atwood
2020 | Book chapter | Author
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Westerosi Queens: Medievalist Portrayal of Female Power and Authority in "A Song of Ice and Fire"

Queenship and the Women of Westeros: Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fir
2020 | Book chapter | Author
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Westerosi Queens: Medievalist Portrayal of Female Power and Authority in <i>A Song of Ice and Fire</i>

Queenship and the Women of Westeros: Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and a Song of Ice and Fire
2020 | Journal article
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Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Ben Aaronovitch’s Urban Fantasy Cycle "Rivers of London"

NORDIC JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES
2019 | Journal article | Author
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Fantastyka a realizm

2019 | Other | Editor
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Contributors: Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun; Weronika Biegluk-Leś; Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk
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Między historią a fantazją. Mediewalizm i głos kobiet w "Pieśni dla Arbonne" Guya Guvriela Kaya

Creatio Fantastica
2019 | Journal article
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Representation of Rape in George R. R. Martin’s "A Song of Ice and Fire" and Robin Hobb’s "Liveship Traders"

EXTRAPOLATION
2019 | Journal article | Author
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Fantastyczny Tygiel. Synkretyzm Gatunkowy I Kulturowy W Cyklu Urban Fantasy Bena Aaronovitcha "Rzeki Londynu"

Creatio Fantastica
2018-09-15 | Journal article
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Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

Faire Ladies Re-Imagined : Female Characters in Guy Gavriel Kay's "A Song for Arbonne"

Tekstowe światy fantastyki
2017 | Book chapter | Author
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POLISH SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY LITERATURE ANGLO-AMERICAN INFLUENCES

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
2017 | Journal issue or edition
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When Gods are Absent from Fantasy : Religion and Spiritual Experience in Guy Gavriel Kay's "The Lions of Al-Rassan" and "The Sarantine Mosaic"

The Light of Life. Essays in Honour of Professor Barbara Kowalik
2017 | Book chapter | Author
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Enter the Carnival: Carnivalesque Semiotics in Early Tudor Moral Interludes

University of Białystok Press
2016 | Book
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Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

Remembering and Forgetting Vol. 1

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
2016 | Journal issue or edition
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Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

The giants beneath: Cultural memory and literature in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
2016 | Journal article
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Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

The Interplay of the Domestic and the Uncanny in Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
2015 | Journal article
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Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

Love and Knowledge: on Eroticising Moral Message in John Redford’s Wit and Science

Old Challenges and New Horizons in English and American Studies
2014 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-3-631-65028-8
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Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

Sweet Demons: Male Body and Masculinity in Anne Bishop’s Dark Fantasy Novels and Related Fan Art

Visuality and Vision in American Literature
2014 | Book chapter
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From Riot to (Self-)Control: Unruly Youth in Late Medieval Interludes

PASE Studies in Literature and Culture
2008 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-83-7525-213-2
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Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

The Comic and the Carnivalesque in Mankind

Reading English Drama and Poetry
2007 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-83-7525-086-2
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Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

The Unruly Household in John Heywood’s Johan Johan

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
2007 | Journal article
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Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

Women in Fulgens and Lucres by Henry Medwall

Approaches to Literature
2005 | Journal article
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Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

Women in Fulgens and Lucres by Henry Medwell

2005 | Book chapter | Author
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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Australian feminist studies. (1)