I. Personal details Name: Curriculum Vitae Rafał Borysławski RAFAŁ BORYSŁAWSKI Date of birth: 20 Oct. 1972 Email: rafal.boryslawski@us.edu.pl 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 5 41-205 Sosnowiec Poland Telephone: + 48 32 364 0892 III. Education (university level) 1992-1996 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 1996-2001 Doctoral studies, Faculty of Philology, University of Silesia February June 1999 Ripon and York St. Johns College, Ripon, United Kingdom European Union Tempus postgraduate scholarship May 2001 Ph.D. degree in Literary Studies (May 2001) doctoral thesis title: The Old English Riddles and the Riddlelike Aspects of the Old English Poetry. An Analysis. IV. Employment history 1996-2001 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, MA seminar, specialization seminar, British and American cultural studies, academic writing)
Curriculum Vitae Dr Rafał Borysławski 2/6 2002-2005 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. 1-223. 2. Days of Code, story and illustration Andrew Park and Wojciech Madej; text written by Rafał Borysławski (London - Kraków: Konto Books, 2003), pp. 1-28. (an artistic book project inspired by visual and literary art of the Middle Ages) Essays and articles published (from most recent): 1. 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. 24-38. 2. 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), ss. 119-132. 3. 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. 121-133. 4. Po drugiej stronie ust: pornografia i polityczna (nie)poprawność w fabliaux, in: Er(r)go, vol. 11 (2005), pp. 51-66. 5. The Laughing Maiden: Feminine Wisdom in Chrétien de Troyes Le Conte du Graal, in Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 41 (2005), pp. 211-224. 6. Eaters of the Dead: Cannibalism in Anglo-Saxon Culture, in: Wojciech H. Kalaga, Tadeusz Rachwał (eds.), Spoiling the Cannibals Fun? Cannibalism and Cannibalisation in Culture and Elsewhere (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, 2005), pp. 245-252.
Curriculum Vitae Dr Rafał Borysławski 3/6 7. 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. 143-158. 8. 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. 161-172. 9. 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. 44-59. 10. 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. 17-24. 11. 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. 35-49. 12. 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. 187-201. 13. Ludyczność i magia w zagadkach staroangielskich, in: Ekonomia i Humanistyka, vol. I, no. 2, 2002, pp. 175-187. 14. The Agoraphobia of the Old English Exiles, in: Wojciech Kalaga, Tadeusz Rachwał (eds.), The Writing of Exile (Katowice: Śląsk, 2001), pp. 165-181. 15. 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. 75-88. 16. 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. 77-94. Essays and articles in print and forthcoming: 1. Medievally Correct: Pornographic discourse in the fabliaux 2. Twist and turn: On the Visual Rhetoric of Old English Variation. 3. Reversed conspiracy in Kazuo Ishiguro s Never Let Me Go and When We Were Orphans. 4. (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 Abstractions Are Invoked to Justify Killing and Stealing.
Curriculum Vitae Dr Rafał Borysławski 4/6 5. Frige mec frodum wordum: Charms and Riddles as Formulaic Speech in Old English Gnomic Poetry. 6. Slash and Burn? The Rhetoric of the Conquered City in Anglo-Saxon Didactic Verse. VI. International conferences attended and papers presented (from most recent; date / organiser / place / conference title / title of paper presented) 1. 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. 2. June 2008 / Université Nancy 2, Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Nancy, France / Formulas in medieval English literature, languange and civilization. / Frige mec frodum wordum: Charms and riddles as formulaic speech in Old English gnomic poems. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. 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. 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. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. 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?
Curriculum Vitae Dr Rafał Borysławski 5/6 11. 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. 12. May 2006 / Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA / 41st Congress on Medieval Studies / paper presented: Sir Gawain and Saint Augustine: A Lesson in Inordinate Desire. 13. 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. 14. September 2005 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Ustroń / Mapping Space(s): Memory, Place, Locality. 15. 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 16. April 2005 / University of Łódź, PASE Conference / paper presented: Solomon and Saturn and Wisdom? Confusion and Communication in Old English Poetry. 17. January 2005 / Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, Warszawa, X Medieval colloquy / paper presented: Erotyka a myślenie magiczne w zagadkach staronagielskich 18. 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 19. 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 20. 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. 21. 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 22. 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 23. 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. 24. 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 25. 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
Curriculum Vitae Dr Rafał Borysławski 6/6 26. 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. 27. 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 28. 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 29. May 1999 / University of Hull, Centre for Medieval Studies, Hull, UK / Scandinavians and Europe 800-1350: Contact, Conflict, Co-Existence 30. 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 31. September 1997 / University of Silesia, Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, Ustroń / Signs of Culture: Simulacra and the Real 32. 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 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.