Curriculum Vitae Rafał Borysławski

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1 I. Personal details Name: Curriculum Vitae Rafał Borysławski RAFAŁ BORYSŁAWSKI Date of birth: 20 Oct II. Academic affiliation University of Silesia Faculty of Philology Institute of English Cultures and Literatures Department of British Culture and Literature Employment address: ul. Gen. S. Grota-Roweckiego Sosnowiec Poland Telephone: III. Education (university level) English Philology, Institute of English, University of Silesia January April 1993 June 1996 Nene College of Higher Education, Northampton, United Kingdom, European Union Tempus undergraduate scholarship M.A. degree in English Philology (with honours) M.A. thesis title: Violence in Anglo-Saxon Poetry. Anglo-Saxon Poetry of Violence Doctoral studies, Faculty of Philology, University of Silesia February June 1999 May 2001 IV. Employment history Ripon and York St. Johns College, Ripon, United Kingdom European Union Tempus postgraduate scholarship Ph.D. degree in Literary Studies (with honours) doctoral thesis title: The Old English Riddles and the Riddlelike Aspects of the Old English Poetry. An Analysis Lecturer, University of Silesia, Faculty of Philology, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Sosnowiec. (main courses taught: history of English literature, interpretations of literature, composition and creative writing) 1997 to date member of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2001-to date Assistant professor, University of Silesia, Faculty of Philology, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Sosnowiec. (main courses taught: history of English literature, BA seminar,

2 2/8 MA seminar, specialization seminar, British and American cultural studies, academic writing) Deputy Director of the Institute for Student Affairs (chief responsibilities: staff supervision, didactic affairs, organization of studies, student affairs, supervising enrolment procedures as well as entrance examinations) June August 2004 October 2005 May 2007 December 2007 recipient of the British Council and University of Ulster Literary Scholarship Guest lecturer, University of Vilnius, Department of English Philology, Vilnius, Lithuania Guest lecturer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Departament de Filologia Anglogermànica, Tarragona, Spain Guest lecturer, University of Warsaw, Institute of English Studies, Warsaw V. Authored publications Books authored: 1. The Old English Riddles and the Riddlic Elements of Old English Poetry (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang, 2004), pp Days of Code, story and illustration Andrew Park and Wojciech Madej; text written by Rafał Borysławski (London - Kraków: Konto Books, 2003), pp (an artistic book project inspired by visual and literary art of the Middle Ages) Essays and articles published (from most recent): 1. Hybridity, Surplus and Absence: Medieval Monsters and Contemporary Visual Arts in Ewa Borkowska, Tomasz Burzyński (eds.), The Surplus of Culture: Sense, Common-sense, Nonsense (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), pp Frige mec frodum wordum: Charms and Riddles as Formulaic Speech in Old English Gnomic Poetry in Colette Stévanovitch, Elise Louviot, Philippe Mahoux-Pauzin, Dominique Hascoët (eds.), La formule dans la littérature et la civilisation de l'angleterre médiévale (Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2011), pp Between oferhygd and wræclastas: Pride and Exile in the Speculative Afterlife of Christ and Satan in Liliana Sikorska (eds.), Medieval English Mirror: Thise Stories Beren Witnesse (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, 2010), pp Exteriors of the Mind: The Natural World and Confusion in Anglo-Saxon Poetry in Sonia Front and Katarzyna Nowak (eds.), Interiors: Interiority/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), pp (with Leszek Drong) Truth as an Ideological Camouflage: Two Case Studies of Blatant Perversions of Facts in Which Truth, a Higher Good, and Other Noble

3 3/8 Abstractions Are Invoked to Justify Killing and Stealing, in Wojciech Kalaga, Marcin Mazurek, Marcin Sarnek (eds.), Camouflage. Discourses of Deception, Transparency and Exposure (Częstochowa: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Lingwistycznej, 2010), pp The Riddle of Poetry: Literary Riddle and Modern Hermeneutics, in Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska (eds.), Medieval English Mirror: Þe Comoun Peplis Language (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, 2010), pp (with Małgorzata Borysławska) Between Two Crosses: Pagan-Christian Brigit as a Cultural and Ideological Retelling of the Irish Sovereignty Myth in Studies in English Philology, vol. I (2010), pp Sir Gawain and Saint Augustine: A Lesson in Inordinate Desire, in: Zeszyty naukowo-dydaktyczne. Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych w Zabrzu. Grzegorz Wlaźlak, Alina Jackiewicz (eds.) Zabrze, 2009, pp The Un-Mouth? Political Correctness and Pornography in the Fabliaux, in: Wojciech Kalaga, Jacek Mydla, Katarzyna Ancuta (eds.), Political Correctness: Mouth Wide Shut? (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, 2009), pp Candida sanctarum sic floret gloria rerum: Aldhelm s Aenigmata as a Riddle of Interpretation, in The Journal of Medieval Latin, vol. 19 (2009), pp Slash and Burn? The Rhetoric of the Conquered City in Anglo-Saxon Didactic Verse, in: Agnieszka Razmus and Magdalena Cieślak (eds.), Images of the City (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), pp Twist and turn: On the Visual Rhetoric of Old English Variation, in: Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska (eds.), Medieval English Mirror: Þe Laurer of Oure Englische Tonge (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, 2009), pp Alfred Jewel and the Old English Solomon and Saturn Dialogues: Wisdom and Chaos in Old English Gnomes, in: Piotr Dziedzic and Małgorzata Nitka (eds.), Fire and Ice. The Dialectic of Order and Chaos (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2008), pp Wordhordes cræft: Confusion and the Order of the Wor(l)d in Old English Gnomes, in: Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska (eds.), Medieval English Mirror: The Propur Langage of Englische Men (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, 2007), pp Sirith-na-Gig?: Dame Sirith and the Fabliau-Witch as Literary Analogues to the Sheela Figures, in: Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska (eds.), Medieval English Mirror: To Make His Englissh Sweete upon his Tonge (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, 2006), pp Po drugiej stronie ust: pornografia i polityczna (nie)poprawność w fabliaux, in: Er(r)go, vol. 11 (2005), pp The Laughing Maiden: Feminine Wisdom in Chrétien de Troyes Le Conte du Graal, in Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 41 (2005), pp Eaters of the Dead: Cannibalism in Anglo-Saxon Culture, in: Wojciech H. Kalaga, Tadeusz Rachwał (eds.), Spoiling the Cannibals Fun? Cannibalism and

4 4/8 Cannibalisation in Culture and Elsewhere (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, 2005), pp Sex, Food and Magic: Digestion and Fertility in the Exeter Book Riddles, in: Wojciech H. Kalaga, Tadeusz Rachwał (eds.), Feeding Culture: The Pleasures and Perils of Appetite (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag 2005), pp Co(s)mic Space in Chaucer s Knight s Tale, in: Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska (eds.), For the Loue of Inglis Lede: Medieval Mirror (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag 2004), pp A gardyn saw I ful of blosmy bowes...: The Commanding Love in La Dame à la licorne of the Musée de Cluny, in: Ewa Borkowska (ed.), In the Space of Arts: Interdisciplinarity, Identity, (Post)Modernity (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2004), pp Kenning and Variation: The Manifestations of the Riddlic Element in Old English Poetry, in: Jadwiga Uchman, Andrzej Wicher (eds.), British Drama Through the Ages and Medieval Literature (Łódź: Wydawnictwo Biblioteka, 2003), pp The Elements of Anglo-Saxon Wisdom Poetry in the Exeter Book Riddles, in: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 38. In Memory of Professor Margaret Schlauch (2002), pp Say What I Am: Aldhelmian Riddle as the Language of Transformation, in: Wojciech Kalaga, Tadeusz Rachwał (eds.), (Trans)-Formations I. Identity and Property. Essays in Cultural Practice (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2002), pp Ludyczność i magia w zagadkach staroangielskich, in: Ekonomia i Humanistyka, vol. I, no. 2, 2002, pp The Agoraphobia of the Old English Exiles, in: Wojciech Kalaga, Tadeusz Rachwał (eds.), The Writing of Exile (Katowice: Śląsk, 2001), pp Imperial Anglo-Saxonism: On the Organic Roots of the English Sense of Superiority in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, in: Tadeusz Rachwał, Tadeusz Sławek (eds.), Organs, Organisms, Organisations. Organic Form in 19th- Century Discourse (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang, 2000), pp The Haunted Minds: The Obsession of Memories in Anglo-Saxon Elegiac Poetry, in: Wojciech Kalaga, Tadeusz Rachwał (eds.), Memory and Forgetfulness. Essays in Cultural Practice (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 1999), pp Essays and articles in print and forthcoming: 1. Reversed conspiracy in Kazuo Ishiguro s Never Let Me Go and When We Were Orphans. 2. From the sign to the cosmos: on Old English runes and their material philosophy.

5 5/8 VI. International conferences attended and papers presented (from most recent; date / organiser / place / conference title / title of paper presented) 1. November 2011 / Adam Mickiewicz University, School of English, Poznań / 10 th MESSLit International Conference / paper presented: All that is wrought is not gold: locating wealth in Old English gnomic texts. 2. February 2011 / Uniwersytet Śląski, Koło Naukowe Doktorantów W. Fil., Katowice / Potwory-Hybrydy-Mutanty: Pogranicza ludzkiej natury / paper presented: Hybryda-nadmiar-nieobecność: pomiędzy potwornością w średniowieczu, a sztuką współczesną. 3. November 2009 / Adam Mickiewicz University, School of English, Poznań / MESSLit International Conference / paper presented: Between oferhygd and wræclastas: Pride and exile in the speculative afterlife of Christ and Satan. 4. September 2009 / University of Silesia, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, Szczyrk / Surplus of Culture: Sense Common-sense Non-sense / paper presented: Surplus, absence and hybridity: medieval monsters and contemporary visual arts. 5. May 2009 / University of Silesia, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, Szczyrk / On the Lost Ground (?). Objects, Concretes, Particulars / paper presented: From the sign to the cosmos: on Old English runes and their material philosophy. 6. May 2009 / Jagiellonian University, Insitute of English Philology, OESC, Kraków / 2nd Old English Student Conference Dream on meduselde - bringing Anglo-Saxonists together / paper presented: Elþeodigra eard gesece, to seek the land of strangers : On the search of sense in Old English literature (keynote address). 7. November 2008 / Adam Mickiewicz University, School of English, Poznań / Seventh Medieval English Studies Symposium / paper presented: Riddles into poems, poems into riddles: medieval riddle poetry and the modern hermeneutics. 8. September 2008 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Ustroń / Interiors / paper presented: Landscapes of the mind. The natural world and confusion in Anglo-Saxon poetry. 9. June 2008 / Université Nancy 2, Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Nancy, France / Formulas in medieval English literature, language and civilization. / Frige mec frodum wordum: Charms and riddles as formulaic speech in Old English gnomic poems. 10. April 2008 / University of Oxford, English Faculty, Oxford, UK / Bone Dreams: Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination. / I offer you things if you will but look : On the poetic audacity of riddles, past and present. 11. November 2007 / Adam Mickiewicz University, School of English, Poznań / Sixth Medieval English Studies Symposium / paper presented: Twist and turn: On the visual rhetoric of Old English variation. 12. October 2007 / University of Łódź, Insitute ofenglish, Łódź / Images of the City / paper presented: Slash and burn? The rhetoric of the conquered city in Anglo- Saxon didactic verse

6 6/8 13. September 2007 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Ustroń / Camouflage. Voyerism. Exhibition. Discourses and Practices of Deception, Surveillance and Transparency / paper presented (in collaboration with Dr Leszek Drong): Truth as an Ideological Camouflage: Two Case Studies of Blatant Perversions of Facts in Which Truth, a Higher Good, and Other Noble Abstractions Are Invoked to Justify Killing and Stealing. 14. September 2007 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Ustroń / Camouflage. Voyerism. Exhibition. Discourses and Practices of Deception, Surveillance and Transparency / paper presented: Reversed conspiracy in Kazuo Ishiguro s Never Let Me Go and When We Were Orphans. 15. April 2007 / Adam Mickiewicz University, School of English, Poznań / LIES: Literature in English Symposium. Magic and the Occult in the Literature in English. / paper presented: Kazuo Ishiguro s Never Let Me Go: A Reading in Dystopian Magic. 16. November 2006 / Adam Mickiewicz University, School of English, Poznań / Fifth Medieval English Studies Symposium / paper presented: Wordhordes cræft: Confusion and the Order of the Wor(l)d in Old English Gnomes. 17. September 2006 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Ustroń / Caught in the treadmill? Recycling culture / the culture of recycling / paper presented: Variation Reloaded: Early English Cultural Recycling? 18. August 2006 / York University and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada / Fifth International Congress for Medieval Latin Studies: Interpreting Latin Texts in the Middle Ages / paper presented: Aldhelm and the Riddle of Interpretation. 19. May 2006 / Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA / 41st Congress on Medieval Studies / paper presented: Sir Gawain and Saint Augustine: A Lesson in Inordinate Desire. 20. November 2005 / Adam Mickiewicz University, School of English, Poznań / Fourth Medieval English Studies Symposium / paper presented: Sirith-na-Gig?: Dame Sirith and the Fabliau-Witch as Literary Analogues to the Sheela Figures. 21. September 2005 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Ustroń / Mapping Space(s): Memory, Place, Locality. 22. May 2005 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature / Fire and Ice: Dialectics of Chaos and Order / paper presented: Alfred's Jewel and the dialectics of wisdom and chaos in Old English gnomes 23. April 2005 / University of Łódź, PASE Conference / paper presented: Solomon and Saturn and Wisdom? Confusion and Communication in Old English Poetry. 24. January 2005 / Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, Warszawa, X Medieval colloquy / paper presented: Erotyka a myślenie magiczne w zagadkach staronagielskich 25. November 2004 / Adam Mickiewicz University, School of English, Poznań / Third Medieval English Studies Symposium / paper presented: The Laughing Woman: Feminine Irony in Chrétien de Troyes Le Conte du Graal

7 7/8 26. September 2004 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Ustroń / Mouth Wide Shut: Political (In)Correctness / paper presented: Medievally Correct: Pornographic Discourse in the Fabliaux 27. May 2004 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Szczyrk / Begging the Question: Relevance of English Studies in the Polish Academia. 28. November 2003 / Adam Mickiewicz University, School of English, Poznań / Second Medieval English Studies Symposium / paper presented: Co(s)mic Space in Chaucer s Knight s Tale 29. May 2003 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Szczyrk / In the Space of the Arts: Identity, Interdisciplinarity and (Post)Modernity / paper presented: A gardyn saw I ful of blosmy bowes... : La Dame á la licorne of the Musée de Cluny in Paris 30. September 2002 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Ustroń / Multicultural Dilemmas: Identity Difference Otherness / paper presented: Tu beoth gemaeccan / Two make a match (Maxims I) : Facing the Other in Anglo-Saxon Gnomic Tradition. 31. May 2002 / Adam Mickiewicz University, School of English, Poznań / Margaret Schlauch Symposium / paper presented: The Elements of Anglo-Saxon Wisdom Poetry in the Exeter Book Riddles 32. November 2001 / University of Łódź, Łódź / British Drama Through the Ages. (the medieval workshop) / paper presented: Kenning and Variation: The Manifestations of the Riddlic Element in Old English Poetry 33. September 2001 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Ustroń / Spoiling the Cannibals Fun: Cannibals and Cannibalisation in Culture / paper presented: Eaters of the Dead: Cannibalism in Anglo-Saxon Culture. 34. September 2000 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Ustroń / Viands, Wines and Spirits: Nourishment and (In)digestion in the Culture of Literacy / paper presented: Sex, Food and Magic: The (In)digestion in the Exeter Book Riddles 35. May 2000 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Szczyrk / (Trans)formations: Identity/Property paper presented: Say What I Am: Riddle as the Language of Transformation 36. May 1999 / University of Hull, Centre for Medieval Studies, Hull, UK / Scandinavians and Europe : Contact, Conflict, Co-Existence 37. September 1998 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature and Bolton Institute of Higher Education, Ustroń, Exiles / paper presented: The Agoraphobia of the Old English Exiles 38. September 1997 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Ustroń / Signs of Culture: Simulacra and the Real 39. May 1997 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Szczyrk / Memory / Remembering / Forgetting / paper presented: The Haunted Minds: The Obsession of Memories in Anglo-Saxon Elegiac Poetry

8 8/8 VII. Research interests: Old English poetry and culture; Old English and Anglo-Latin riddles and riddle theory; Middle English literature and culture; The Arthurian circle in French (Chrétien de Troyes); Marie de France; Humour, the culture of laughter and the marginal world in the Middle Ages; Medieval socio-history; Medieval sexuality; Myth theory.