Biography

Professor of humanities, works at the Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa; Head of the Department of Literary Theory and the Research Group on Comparative Cultural Studies. He researches issues at a borderline between the literary theory and comparative cultural studies, e.g. transcultural research on medievality, audiovisuality semiotics and anthropology, and relations between Christianity and literature, including culture kerygmatics. For the last few years, he has been working on a project called Cultural history of sound, the research objective of which is to determine place of sound as an audio phenomenon in the cultural code.