PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Magdalena Piotrowska-Grot

I am a graduate of the integrated master's and doctoral studies at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Silesia and hold a PhD in the humanities. Between 2011 and 2016, I was a doctoral student at the Department of Contemporary Literature at the Ireneusz Opacki Institute of Literary Studies. I obtained my PhD in the humanities in the field of literary studies on November 22, 2016. My doctoral dissertation, Visions of the Afterlife in Contemporary Polish Poetry: Selected Representations, was written under the supervision of Prof. Danuta Opacka-Walasek and was defended with distinction.

I work as a research and teaching staff member at the University of Łódź. I am also the editor of the Presentations section and the editorial secretary at artPAPIER. Additionally, I am the author of two books: Into the Depths: Essays on Contemporary Poetry of Silesia and Zagłębie and Rearranging (in) Eternity: Visions of the Afterlife in Contemporary Polish Poetry.

Since 2023, I have been working at the Department of Literary Theory, and since 2025, I have been a member of the Chava Rosenfarb Center for Jewish Culture Research.

European Contemporary Poetry – Avant-garde and Neo-avant-garde Poetry

Polish Poetry after 1968

Jewish Literature and Culture

Digital Humanities

Visual Art, Interference of Arts, Transmedial and Multimodal Narratives and Discourses

The Spatial Turn in Literature and Literary Topography