PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Arkadiusz Morawiec

Arkadiusz Morawiec is a professor at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Łódź and a literary critic.His research interests include the history of Polish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, in particular literary texts representing totalitarianism, genocide (including the Holocaust), concentration and extermination camps.His research also concerns literature as a medium of memory. He has published eight books, among which are: Poetyka opowiadań Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego. Autentyzm – dyskursywność – paraboliczność [The poetics of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s short stories: Authenticity – discursiveness – parables] (2000), Literatura w lagrze, lager w literaturze. Fakt – temat – metafora [Literature in Nazi concentration camps, Nazi concentration camps in literature: Fact – theme – metaphor] (2009), Zofia Romanowiczowa. Pisarka nie tylko emigracyjna [Zofia Romanowiczowa: More than an émigré writer] (2016), and Polish Literature and Genocide (2022). He has edited and co-edited eleven monographs, including: The Literature in/after Concentration and Death Camps (2017) and Zagłada wobec innych ludobójstw [Holocaust in the face of other genocides] (2020).