Kamila Żukowska (b. 1987) 

She holds degrees in Polish Philology (2015), Ethnology (2016), and Spanish Philology with American Studies (2022). She completed her master’s thesis on didactic themes in the works of Ignacy Krasicki under the supervision of Prof. W. Pusz and her doctoral dissertation on Songs Sung to Herself by Konstancja Benisławska under the guidance of Prof. Krystyna Płachcińska, with reviewers: Prof. B. Wolska and Prof. Dariusz Dybek,. Żukowska earned her PhD in literary studies in 2021. That same year, she joined the Department of Old Literature, Editing and Auxiliary Sciences at the Institute of Polish Philology and Logopaedics, University of Łódź, as an assistant professor.

She is currently working on a project dedicated to representations of female friendship in Enlightenment literature.

She is interested in Old Polish women’s literature, utopian literature of the Enlightenment, British literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries (Gothic novel, Romantic poetry, and Victorian novel), as well as the genre theory of contemporary romance and the philosophy of literature.

 2024 – Rector’s Second-Degree Award for the book Mystical Dream. The Songs Sung to Herself by Konstancja Benisławska in the Context of Early Polish Literature

2021 – Marshal of the Łódź Voivodeship Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievements

2018 – Ministry of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for PhD Students for Outstanding Academic Achievements

2015 – Ministry of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for Students for Outstanding Academic Achievements