PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Monika Kocot

SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Monika Kocot, PhD, is the author of Playing Games of Sense in Edwin Morgan’s Writing (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016) and co-editor of Języki (pop)kultury w literaturze, mediach i filmie (Languages of (Pop)Culture in Literature, Film, and Media) Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015), Nie tylko Ishiguro. Szkice o literaturze anglojęzycznej w Polsce (Not Only Ishiguro. Essays on Anglophone Literature in Poland) Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019), and Moving Between Modes. Papers in Intersemiotic Translation. In Memoriam Professor Alina Kwiatkowska (Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020). She has published articles on contemporary Scottish poetry and prose as well as Native American writing. Her latest research is on philosophy and spirituality in literature, with a particular emphasis on geopoetics and comparative literature. She is a member of the Association for Cultural Studies, the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, and Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association. She is the Vice President of The K.K. Baczynski Literary Society.


INTERESTS

  • contemporary Scottish poetry and prose
  • Native American writing
  • classical Japanese poetry
  • geopoetics
  • visual and concrete poetry
  • comparative literature
  • literary translation

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