Dr Blanka Grzegorczyk

Academic and professional qualifications

• BA English Studies
• MA English Studies
• PhD Literary Studies
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Previous employment

Before coming to Manchester in 2018, Blanka was a part-time lecturer at the University of Cambridge and at Anglia Ruskin University.

Why study ?

Undergraduate courses

• Critical Dialogues
• Engaging the Humanities

Postgraduate teaching

• Reading Children’s Books 2

Postgraduate supervision (completed/in progress)

Blanka welcomes contact from prospective PhD students on any topics broadly concerning the literature and culture of twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in particular in the following areas:

• children’s and young adult literature
• twentieth-century and contemporary fiction
• colonial and postcolonial literatures in English
• literary and cultural theory
• modern and contemporary film and its links to literature
• fantasy and science fiction

Research expertise

• intersections of literature, culture, and theory (in particular postcolonial studies)
• twentieth-century and contemporary fiction
• terrorism and wars on terror in literature
• children’s and young adult literature, film, and culture
• fantasy and science fiction
• literature, technology, and the posthuman condition
• multicultural publishing
• new media literacy and participatory culture

Publications

• Books (authored/edited/special issues)

• Journal articles

  B. Grzegorczyk (2020). Book review: Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature: From the Enlightenment to the Present Day. International Research in Children's Literature. 13(2), pp.355-357.