• BA English Studies
• MA English Studies
• PhD Literary Studies
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Before coming to Manchester in 2018, Blanka was a part-time lecturer at the University of Cambridge and at Anglia Ruskin University.
• Critical Dialogues
• Engaging the Humanities
• Reading Children’s Books 2
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
• 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
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.