I am a titular professor. I work in a research and teaching position.

In 1985 I graduated in Russian philology at the University of Łódź and defended my MA thesis on popular literature in Russia in the 18th century under the supervision of Prof. E. Małek.

In 1993 I received my doctoral degree at the University of Lodz in Russian literary studies on the basis of my dissertation ‘The cases of Ivan the merchant's son’ by Ivan Novikov. A monographic analysis against the background of the literary culture of the Russian Enlightenment, written under the supervision of E. Malek.

In 2004 I received the degree of Doctor of Humanities in the field of Russian literary studies on the basis of the dissertation From studies on theoretical-literary consciousness in eighteenth-century Russia (based on prefaces, introductions, dedications)

I received the academic title of professor in 2016. The basis for the promotion application was, among other things, a monograph entitled ‘The Felician Cycle’ in Russian poetry of the late 18th - early 19th centuries

From 2012 to 2020, I served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philology

From 2020 to 2024 I served as director of the Institute of Russian Studies

Since 2018, I have served as head of the Department of Russian Literature and Culture

I am the deputy chairman of the 1st Faculty of the Lodz Scientific Society. I am a member of the Polish Russian Studies Society and the Polish Society for Research on the Eighteenth Century

Since 2016, I have been an expert of the Polish Accreditation Commission

Russian literature of the 18th - 1st half of the 19th century;

Occasional literature

The oeuvre of Gabriel Dierżawin

Intertextual contexts

The Russian-language press of Łódź

My scientific output includes more than 130 items, including: eight monographs, 7 edited or co-edited books, more than 90 scientific articles, 10 review texts and other studies, such as theses, communications. I have also written over a dozen editorial reviews of published books. Publications have appeared both in prestigious national journals and periodical publications abroad - in Russia, Germany, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Spain.

Monographs:

1.„Przypadki Iwana, syna kupieckiego” Iwana Nowikowa. Analiza monograficzna na tle kultury literackiej rosyjskiego Oświecenia, WUŁ, Łódź 1996.

2.Z obserwacji nad dedykacjami mecenasowskimi w osiemnastowiecznej Rosji, WUŁ, Łódź 2000.

3.Ze studiów nad świadomością teoretycznoliteracką w osiemnastowiecznej Rosji (na podstawie przedmów, wstępów, dedykacji), WUŁ, Łódź 2003.

4."Cykl Felicyjski" w poezji rosyjskiej końca XVIII -początku XIX wieku, Primum Verbum, Łódź 2013.

5.«Фелицейскийцикл» Гавриила Державина, Palmarium Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken2015.

6.Литературная жизнь России XVIII - началаXIX века, WUŁ, Łódź 2016.

7.Z teorii i praktyki zapożyczeń literackich w Rosji w XVIII wieku, WUŁ,Łódź 2020.

8. Łódzki remake poematu Aleksandra Puszkina "Eugeniusz Oniegin"< WUŁ, Łódż 2023.

I was the 2015-2023 contractor of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities project No. 0100/NPRH4/H1a/83/2015 (2015-2022) on the topic: ‘The literary culture of Łódź up to 1939’.

I am currently a contractor of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities project NPRH/DN/SP/0221/2023/12 on the topic ‘Daily life of an industrial city in the light of the columns of the Łódź press from 1863-1918’ (implementation period 2024-2029)