EIC: dr hab. Izabela Morska, prof. UG
Editorial Board: dr Alicja Chmiołek UG; dr Barbara Miceli UG;
Advisory Board: dr hab. Zofia Kolbuszewska, prof. UWr
Proofreaders: Brian Bort, Scott Russell Duncan
Student Editorial Board:
Oliwia Sewastynowicz (Editorial Secretary)
2025/2026 Student Internship at Polish Gothic:
Editorial Office
Aleksandra Banasik, Adrian Kafarski, Patrycja Murzyniec-Kamińska, Natalia Wojciechowska
Submission Readers
Aleksandra Banasik, Martyna Burdziej, Jerzy Brzuska, Adrian Kafarski, Matylda Leśniewska, Patrycja Murzyniec-Kamińska, Julia Prokopowicz, Małgorzata Rejmentowska, Natan Richert, Gabriela Twardowska, Natalia Wojciechowska, Maja Zamiejska
Marketing Assistants and Event Organizers
Maja Bagińska, Aleksandra Banasik, Patrycja Bolda, Martyna Burdziej, Oliwia Dawidowska, Matylda Leśniewska, Barbara Łomnicka, Patrycja Murzyniec-Kamińska, Natalia Wojciechowska, Julia Wyrwińska, Maja Zamiejska
Graphic Assistants
Maja Bagińska, Oliwia Dawidowska, Barbara Łomnicka, Wiktoria Szamotulska, Julia Wyrwińska
Accessibility & Format Advisors
Martyna Burdziej, Adrian Kafarski, Patrycja Murzyniec-Kamińska
Audio Assistants
Jerzy Brzuska, Patrycja Murzyniec-Kamińska
Voice Actors
Patrycja Bolda, Jerzy Brzuska, Julia Prokopowicz, Małgorzata Rejmentowska, Natan Richert, Gabriela Twardowska, Maja Zamiejska
Polish Gothic: Illuminating the hauntings of modern life
CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOS:
Izabela Morska is the author of the gothic novel Alma. Professor in the Institute of English and American Studies, she also authored a dissertation on Maria Komornicka vel Piotr Włast, an uncanny and transgressive figure of Polish modernism. Her latest works are Glorious Outlaws: Debt as a tool in Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction (2016) and Vanishing (2019), a memoir of hospital peregrination. Winner of the Pomeranian Literary Award (2020) and the Julian Tuwim Literary Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Alicja Chmiołek is Assistant Professor in American Studies, University of Gdańsk, and writes about Flannery O’Connor, Roger Corman, as well as American horror and science fiction films.
Barbara Miceli is Assistant Professor in American Studies, University of Gdańsk. She is author of a monograph on Joyce Carol Oates (A ‘Fourth’ Way to Tell the Story: Fact and Fiction in Three Novels by Joyce Carol Oates, 2021) and co-author of a book on contemporary TV series (Reading Contemporary TV series: Aesthetics, Themes, and Reception, 2022). She also published several poems, short stories and three novels, one of which was recipient of the 2014 Cimitile Prize for fiction.
Zofia Kolbuszewska is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Wrocław. She is the author of monographs on Thomas Pynchon and gothic representations of childhood in American literature, and numerous articles on American Gothic, neobaroque, and forensic imagination. With Patrycja Antoszek and Agnieszka Łowczanin she is editing a collection of essays on Polish Gothic for the University of Wales Press.
Institute of English and American Studies
University of Gdańsk
ul. Wita Stwosza 51, room 384
80-308 Gdańsk
Wydawca: Uniwersytet Gdański, ul. Bażyńskiego 8, 80-309 Gdańsk